Canadian officials vexed as Americans continue to repeat lie connecting 9/11 hijackers to Canada
April 25, 2009
Mitch Potter
WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON – Canada. Conduit. Terror.
Three words no Canadian likes to hear in the same sentence. Three words that just keep spilling out of Americans, as they did this week from Janet Napolitano, the Obama administration’s homeland security secretary.When the words leaked from Napolitano’s mouth, they at least left room for her foot. In it went, up to the knee, with her inference that the 9/11 bombers came via Canada.
Ouch. And, a day later ouch again, when Napolitano offered a double-edged clarification that a) cleared Canada on 9/11, but b) insisted others – vague, unnamed others – crossed from Canada with terror on their minds. And yesterday, ouch yet again as Senator John McCain, the former Republican presidential candidate, repeated the original falsehood on Fox News.
http://www.thestar.com:80/prin…
Nice that you referenced McCain and all, but you left something out. What was the allegation that linked 9/11 to Canada? Why was the allegation false? Why does the allegation continue to have legs? Conceivably, the allegation could be true, almost true, or deceptively false. I’m sure this is a question on which Canadians are sensitive, but I haven’t heard of it before.
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p>By skipping over all the background, you arrive at a rather, er, unpatriotic conclusion about your fellow citizens without much to back it. “Americans are stupid” would seem to require stronger proof. I mean, other than the Bush Administration.
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The would-be New Years’ Eve bomber drove in from Canada. Canada was one of the last holdouts from enacting laws to cut off funding and support to the LTTE. The government has a poor record on combating terrorism and the country has a poor record on sniveling about the United States.