Justin Elliot of Salon is reading a new book by General Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during parts of the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. And apparently Shelton describes how in 1997, someone in the Clinton cabinet--from the way it's written, probably Madeleine Albright--suggested that the U.S. let a plane get shot down in order to provide a pretext to invade Iraq:
It's the Granfalloon of the 00's - How to get misinformed Americans to believe that we should rightfully invade IRAQ. It worked! Let's be on the look out for the next redherring!