Clueless Right And Left
Blame the Canadians! Everybody's doing it. Lee-Anne Goodman writes for Canadian Metro News Services:
John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States through Canada.Just days after Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, sparked a diplomatic kerfuffle by suggesting the terrorists 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.
Ambassador Michael Wilson set things straight:
"As the 9-11 Commission reported in July 2004, all of the 9-11 terrorists arrived in the U.S. from outside North America. They flew to major U.S. airports. They entered the U.S. with documents issued to them by the U.S. government. No 9-11 terrorists came from Canada."
And even if terrorists did "come through Canada," they'd have to pass through American customs, same as if they came off the plane from Saudi Arabia and through the swinging doors at Miami International, Boston Logan, or JFK. That is, unless they snuck over from Windsor to Detroit in a boat, or slunk over the U.S. Mexico border with all the illegals looking to break our typically unenforced immigration laws and work here...or to deliver their babies into instant American citizenship -- like the illegals who have dropped four million babies already.
Mark Steyn said it well on The Corner:
As readers well know, I'm all for taking the slightest opportunity to blame Canada, but this is pathetic: The 9/11 killers filled in joke paperwork issued by the US State Department and were waived through US immigration by US officials: No Canadians were involved, only the government of the United States. Three thousand Americans died as a result of the federal bureaucracy's Saudi Visa Express service, but the nation's most senior politicians can't be bothered apprising themselves of this basic fact.This is what happens when you take what are meant to be "citizen-legislators" and bulk them up with a retinue larger than the average Gulf emir. Half these guys are hopeless when they're off the cue cards, but, even by those standards, this is embarrassing: We're talking about a basic fact about the defining event of the last decade - and McCain can't even be bothered getting that right.
Somewhat offtopic, but this bugs me. On Sunday Senator Feinstein said a bunch of stuff on CNN that had a Watergate-ish odor... I worry that Cheney and company cleverly had Dems sign off on torture early on and in the middle days of Dubya's second term, and she's trying to buy some time to weasel her way out of responsibility:
"...I think all of this, on the front burner, before the public, does harm our intelligence gathering, it does harm America's position in the world. And President Obama has worked so hard now to open a new page, to go to so many countries, to say that America is now on a different course. Let us do our work and let us do it the way it should be done."
I think we shouldn't let anyone, of either party, tell us to trust government to handle matters of torture... If Bush people did inexcusable things, I want them punished (and humiliated). If Dems were party to it, we'll have some spank for them as well.
"My hope is that the public debate quells, that we have an opportunity to do our work," said Feinstein.
Doesn't that smell shitty to you? Why the hell should we let a senator tell us to quell debate?
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at April 27, 2009 1:37 AM
Sheila: Time's have changed
Our kids are kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: NO, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flappin heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It's Canada's fault!
Sharon: Don't blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the darn cartoon
And now he's off to join the clan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
It seems that everythings gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Some Guy: There not even a real country anyway
Mrs. McCormick: My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true
Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: Heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their hockey hubbabbalooo
Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before someone thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusss
lujlp at April 27, 2009 4:28 AM
Lujlp- I thought the same thing.
Truth at April 27, 2009 9:13 AM
lujlp- I thought the same thing. (Sorry if this double posts. Firefox updated and I've been fighting w/ it since.)
Truth at April 27, 2009 9:15 AM
If the Obama Administration isn't falsely blaming Canada then they're falsely identifying returning U.S. War Veterans as terrorist threats.
Who is next, young Japanese schoolgirls?
Robert W. (Vancouver, BC) at April 27, 2009 10:38 AM
'twould be very amusing if McCain owned up to this, apologized to Canada in a newsconference...
because it would force every other politician that had done, to either own up or look more stupid.
SwissArmyD at April 27, 2009 11:10 AM
I am old enough to remember when, in 1979-1980, 50-some Americans were being held hostage by Iranian radicals (including the current Iranian president).
Three months into the crisis, when we had begun to lose faith in Jimmy Carter's ability to resolve the situation, there came the announcement that the Canadian diplomats had hidden six Americans in their embassy (at great danger to themselves) and had (with assistance from the CIA) snuck them out of Iran using Canadian passports.
It gets better. In order to award Canadian passports to non-Canadians, Parliament had to meet in a secret session, its first since World War II. What's more, the members had to keep their mouths shut for three months. Imagine our Congresmen doing that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper
Conan the Grammarian at April 27, 2009 11:45 AM
Conan, that could never happen again...while loose lips sink ships, everyone has a right to know everything about everyone and damn the consequences!
The fact that the "perpetrators of 9/11" (not "terrorists" mind you) had documentation from the State Dept no longer matters since we now show ID 3 times...which is magic.
I don't mind that I've been labeled by the Dept of Homeland Security (or HO-SEC)a "terrorist"...one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
P.S. I posted before as "Blackjack"..."Red" is my new nickname!
Red at April 27, 2009 5:37 PM
You have no idea just how dangerous their kawaii secret agent force really is.
brian at April 27, 2009 6:25 PM
You'd be surprised how fast kawaii can turn into kowai!
old rpm daddy at April 28, 2009 8:39 AM
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