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In reply to the discussion: Conspiracy v. fact 9/11 [View all]Frank_Norris_Lives
(114 posts)....it's not debunked.
You are mixing apples and oranges here. You cannot compare Silverstein's comments (that of a layman) with the terminology of cognoscenti, namely firemen or professional building demolitionists.
To 'pull' a building and to mean by that to bring the building down is firmly grounded in our vernacular. For example, a quick Google search of ("pull it" "a building" down -wtc -silverstein -7 -fire) yields over 566,000 examples. Some of them are off subject but there remain hundreds of thousands of relevant examples.
This is what Silverstein meant. A slip of the lip.
Or do you think Rumsfeld really meant 'airplane' when he said a missile hit the pentagon.
Or do you think Rumsfeld really meant 'crashed' when he said Flight 93 was shot down.
These are old men speaking unprepared off the cuff.
Your only alternative is to accept that these men conspired to spread disinfo.