""There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" "
He asked this once. So,
"I need to see some links to reasonable argument that Cheney's aide kept coming back to ask if the shootdown order still stood. I haven't seen the argument here, so please link to it if it is out there somewhere."
is meaningless- as the aide did not do so. He asked ONCE- as anyone else in the circumstances might have.