Saturday, April 25, 2009

A stab at relevance becomes a shot to the foot

Mind Looking Into This, Friend?

'Mind Looking Into This, Friend?'

CBC:

Arizona Senator John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the Sept. 11, 2001, attackers entered the United States through Canada.

Just days after Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, sparked a diplomatic kerfuffle by suggesting the perpetrators took a Canadian route to the U.S. eight years ago, McCain defended her by saying that, in fact, the former Arizona governor was correct.

"Well, some of the 9/11 hijackers did come through Canada, as you know," McCain, last year's Republican presidential candidate, said on Fox News on Friday.


Not only did these villains not transit through Canada on their way to various locations in the U.S.(Instead, flying directly to America (PDF) where they stayed for several months, under increasing U.S. government surveillance), but as they were engaging in these activities of interest there was a consensus reached to ignore the threat at the highest levels even as investigators got closer.

This is an American failure, and always has been. Of course, the individual involved in repeating these self-serving lies did lose considerable credibility during the U.S. presidential elections, and at other crucial points of his senatorial career - So, one shouldn't be surprised at how easily the lies roll off of his tongue whether he is aware of them...or otherwise.

7 comments:

Randal Graves said...

Wingnut reading of this post: It's obvious that we need to invade Canada for their aiding of terrorism!

My reading of this post: It's obvious that we need to invade Canada to steal all of their Canadian bacon!

darkblack said...

The poutine trees and maple syrup wells are an added incentive to crush these Canucklian pipsqueaks and despoil their tiny land, Randal...Before their vile snowbacked filth taints the American entertainment indust-

Ahem.

;>)

Freida Bee said...

Best. Post. Title.

Agi said...

Blame Canada!
With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies

darkblack said...

Thank you, Freida. :)

...

'Just like a toque-clad thief
The sons of the Maple Leaf
disgrace our Yankee soil
Let's invade them for their oil', Agi.

;>)

equa yona(Big Bear) said...

Well, they are either blatantly aware of their lies or terminally stupid. Hmm, perhaps both!

darkblack said...

It certainly doesn't need to be a mutually exclusive state for some, equa yona. Welcome.

;>)