(Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a “big fabrication” that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported . .
Ahmadinejad described the destruction of the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001 as a “complicated intelligence scenario and act,” IRNA reported.
He added: “The September 11 incident was a big fabrication as a pretext for the campaign against terrorism and a prelude for staging an invasion against Afghanistan.” He did not elaborate.
Who wasn’t waiting to invade Afghanistan? What with all their oilgoldplutoniumweaponrystrategic portsvisible townsroomy buildingsalluring geishasfern barsfancy chocolateswrist watchesclean paperplywoodweather . .
For 8 years, they’ve been getting away with meekly saying “…er, it’s, uh, nobody’s fault. Nobody could’ve predicted it.” Now there is somebody to blame for the thousands of deaths–Bill Clinton. What a surprise.
Fine, then: What the hell should Bill Clinton have done on September the 10th to prevent his catastrophic failure on the following day? When you can answer that one, Mary, I’ll refrain from calling you the rank pile of festering political garbage that you obviously are.
“I think terrorism isn’t just attack, it’s anxiety and I think you feel the anxiety and frustration of New Yorkers who took the bullet for the rest of the country,”
New York Governor David Paterson plays his hand, tries to save his political future.
Fourteen months after being elevated to the governor’s job, David A. Paterson is deeply unpopular among New Yorkers, who doubt his ability to grapple with the state’s increasingly bleak economic situation, according to a poll by The New York Times, Cornell University and NY1 News.
Sensing the futility of trying to jam Paterson down the throats of New Yorkers in the next gubernatorial election, the White House let him know that he will not be their man.
When President Obama’s aides lowered the boom on Gov. Paterson, it was really a two-fer aimed as much at another White House worry: former Mayor Rudy Giuliani…
The political jujitsu dealt a blow to Republican Giuliani’s gubernatorial chances, since it’s now more likely the former mayor’s opponent would now be the Democrat’s undisputed heavyweight, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, experts said.
So what did Paterson do? Sided with Giuliani on the terrorists/security ‘issue’, of all things.
“Our country was attacked on its own soil on September 11, 2001 and New York was very much the epicenter of that attack. Over 2,700 lives were lost,” he said.
“It’s very painful. We’re still having trouble getting over it.
“We still have been unable to rebuild that site and having those terrorists so close to the attack is gonna be an encumbrance on all New Yorkers.”
How do you like that language? ‘Please, no, not now, we can’t get over it, we’re hurting too bad…’ There’s some real strength in leadership. What about the city’s own justice system, populated by New Yorkers, trying and convicting the bastards? Some local legal retribution? No?
Or would some of you rather just traffic in noun/verb/nine-eleven Giuliani impersonations?
“I think it’s a logistical and security nightmare for the American People,” Alice Hoagland, mother of a 9/11 victim, said.
Normally, who’d bother with state Senators? But Dave is waaaaay wingnut.
And what’s great about that? This is what’s great: it’s a wingnut triumph of truth and the human spirit to speak your mind. WOW. Coool. He’s ‘Twitter’ing what only the worst of us are thinking.
Hello!
WOAH. The president is one of those terrorists that killed thousands of Americans in a matter of minutes back in 2001? That seems a bit much.
State Senate President Brandon Shaffer, a Longmont Democrat, calls Schultheis’ tweet “appalling” and has demanded a retraction, and Ed Kowalski, a director for the New York-based 9/11 Families for a Secure America, believes Schultheis was “clearly” referring to Flight 93 when he used the words of the passengers who fought to take back the ill-fated plane: “Let’s roll.”
Kowalski also disagrees with many of Obama’s policies but says, “Let’s not cheapen what happened on Sept. 11 by making random and or ill-fated comparisons to current policy.”
WHAT! Who the fuck said “Let’s Roll” was connected to anything about planes, including what I said?
“‘Let’s roll.’ It’s a comment people use all the time any more. ‘Let’s get going. Let’s move on. Let’s make major changes,’ ” Schultheis said. “I can see it now. But you’re busy doing jillions of things during the day. You sometimes don’t analyze every single word.”
Busy doing jillions of things, but he sees it now. So it was a mistake, because he was busy, but everybody uses it all the time, so it’s not a mistake.
Earlier this year, in a communicable disease transmission bill, Colorado lawmakers sought to test all pregnant women for HIV so that they could prescribe anti-virals to protect infants.
Dave:
“This stems from sexual promiscuity for the most part, and I just can’t go there,” he said.
“We do things continually to remove the consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavior, quite frankly. I’m not convinced that part of the role of government should be to protect individuals from the negative consequences of their actions.”
The whores should just watch their babies die. Okay.
Well, at least Matthew Vadum, whoever that is, isn’t embarrassed about being a totally screwed up human being. He owns and worships the mass murders of 2001, and that’s that.
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.
How about that for an opening? Man, that is something. I haven’t even read the rest of the article yet, but I’m sure it’s way wackaloon if it begins that hysterically. I am a leftist, but I do not recall wanting to celebrate 9/11 in any way, nor do I believe the White House has such plans. I do get a feeling, however, that Matthew may be pissy because he fears liberals are getting close to his turf. Just a guess, let’s see:
This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.
Leave the radical communities disorganized! 9/11 wasn’t created for them, bastards. What the hell is this douchebag going on about? This has got to be a turf war. 9/11 being turned into a productive day of national service is a perfectly good idea. What could possibly be wrong with that?
The administration’s plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group’s senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs…
On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.
The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.
Your meaning, you mean? Look out, we’re draining the terrorist murders of all of your meaning with our hard work and national service. Good lord, what an asshole partisan sonuvabitch. Kill the productive National Day of Service because somebody said it ‘helps the left.’ There it is, the Republican brain laid bare. “I don’t care what it is, don’t care if it helps other people–if it helps liberals, destroy it.” Careful, don’t tell Matthew how much you like Christmas. Hell, if we’d told him how many of us fought in WWII, he’d have gone Nazi.
“They think it needs to be taken back from the right,” said the source. “They’re taking that day and they’re breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day…”
Yes, we’re all about day ‘breaking’. Us liberals and our night sticks, let’s talk about it in the mourning, hey! (dammit, Matthew) Somebody shoot me. Just can’t wait to break your September the Eleventh, yup.
And 9/11 trying to be ‘owned’ by the right? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Naw, never.
Of course, the annual commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks belongs to the entire nation, but President Obama and the activist left don’t see it that way. They view the nationwide remembrance of the murder of 3,000 Americans by Islamic totalitarians as an obstacle to winning over the hearts and minds of the American people.
Wow, Matthew, you are a complete fucking asshole. Don’t stop now, dude.
“When you criticize them, they are prepared to say, ‘Did you want 9/11 to be another day of selling mattresses, like Presidents Day?” the source said. “They are truly trying to change the American mindset.”
There you go again, a real asshole. As such, playing out imaginary scenarios where we’re disrespectful scumbags. Just imagine if imaginary things actually happened. You Republicans, on the other hand, have yet to apologize for doing just exactly that for the last 8 years, using the murders of thousands of innocent people for political gain. You’d have been far more patriotic and sincere if you had relegated any 9/11 remembrance to ‘another day of selling mattresses, like Presidents Day.’
On Aug. 4, the White House offered a glimpse into its plans to desecrate 9/11 for political advantage. Jones appeared in a largely ignored 33-minute video posted on the official blog of the White House to discuss the administration’s plan to flush 9/11 down the memory hole just as it has tried to do by rechristening the Global War on Terror the “Overseas Contingency Operations.”
Of this National Day of Service, Jones says little except that it will be a great opportunity “for people to connect, to find other people in your peer group who are also passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America.”
Well, no need to explain any further, Matthew. The ‘desecration’ of 9/11 is crystal clear: ‘repowering,’ ‘greening’ and ‘cleaning.’ With some more screeching, your day might also be spared the horrors of ‘gum-chewing,’ ‘back-slapping’ and ‘thoughtless laughter.’
On the same day, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Department of Energy Under Secretary Kristina Johnson and activists held a low-key press conference. At it, Yearwood said the National Day of Service will be “the first milestone” of a larger effort called Green the Block that is attempting to convince Americans that the utopian fantasy of a so-called green economy is possible without turning the U.S. into a Third World country.
“From policy creation to community implementation, the Green the Block campaign wants to see access and opportunity created for all Americans, to build prosperity and a healthier planet for future generations,” Yearwood said.
At no time does anyone explain why this National Day of Service has to be held — of all the 365 days in a year — on Sept. 11.
New York Governor David Paterson 
attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.
The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.
Of this National Day of Service, Jones says little except that it will be a great opportunity “for people to connect, to find other people in your peer group who are also passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America.”