I was sitting next to a lovely couple coming back from their Jamaican vacation on the plane back from South Carolina. They noticed the commission report I was reading, and at the end of the trip one of them asked me if the hijackers had guns. I said, "No. They just had boxcutters.". She asked me why we didn't rush them. I told them that we did on flight 93, but that on the other flights they were convinced it was a standard hijacking for demands deal. The people on 93 knew better because they were on the phones dialing out and the plane had been delayed.
I was then a little curious about what they knew and followed up with, "You know that none of the hijackers came from Iraq. Right?" They both looked shocked and the man asked, "Then why are we there?" I shook my head and said, "Weapons of Mass Destruction?"
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