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https://www.rawstory.com/denver-riggleman-slams-idiot-marjorie-taylor-greene-for-suggesting-9-11-pentagon-strike-wasn-t-a-plane/
Former Congressman Denver Riggleman (R-VA) took to Twitter on Wednesday to slam Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for an interview in which she suggests that the strike on the Pentagon during the September 11 attacks did not involve an airplane.
The interview, given to American Priority before Taylor Greene took her seat in Congress in 2021, was recirculated after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) assigned her to the House Homeland Security Committee this week.
"We had witnessed 9/11, right?" said Greene in the interview. "We had witnessed 9/11. The terrorist attack in New York, and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, and the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon. It's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon."
"One of my closest friends was in the Pentagon when the plane hit. I deployed ten days after 9/11," wrote Riggleman, a Trump-skeptic Republican who served in Congress from 2019 to 2021 and worked as an adviser to the House January 6 Committee. "Any idiot who says the 'so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon' and says there is no evidence for said plane is a mentally deranged fool."
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pandr32
(12,863 posts)She seems to wear it like a badge of honor.
Jim__
(14,682 posts)TigressDem
(5,126 posts)"Any idiot who says the 'so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon' and says there is no evidence for said plane is a mentally deranged fool."
THE THING ABOUT THE INTERNET MGT is you can look things up also.....
https://www.military.com/history/25-intense-photos-pentagon-9-11.html



AND WHY WOULD THAT EVEN BE A TALKING POINT? BUSH WAS IN OFFICE WHEN IT HAPPENED. CLINTON WARNED HIM.
He didn't listen. IT'S REALLY on them.... oh I see. So it didn't happen. Got it.
White washing history is the new job of the Homeland Security Committee because we KNOW we are safer when we DON'T KNOW.
COL Mustard
(7,346 posts)But I had friends and colleagues who didn't survive the attack. She cheapens their memories. She is as vile as they come, and a stain on Congress and her district.
TigressDem
(5,126 posts)How are people programmed to be this way? Was she raised being beaten and put in a closet?
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tavernier
(13,640 posts)What do you think happened to them?
louis-t
(24,262 posts)You sound like a Qanon site. "The hole's too small, no photos, no debris, that piece of the plane was planted there....." The plane was flying at 600 mph at least. Only so many frames per second to capture the crash. The hole's too small? What idiot told you that? By the way, an exploding missile would have made a MUCH bigger hole.
RobinA
(10,309 posts)I check into from time to time want a plane shaped hole in the Pentagon, complete with fuselage sized hole and then narrower holes on both sides for the wings, like the plane hit full head on. --0-- If it weren't such a tragedy it would be funny.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,761 posts)crash into the Pentagon?
AdamGG
(1,674 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,816 posts)From what I've read, the Pentagon is so solidly constructed that the light (in comparison) metal plane was essentially obliterated on impact, which is what fuels conspiracy theorists to say there "was no plane". It'd be like firing a 22 caliber bullet at a cinderblock and attempting to find all the bits and pieces of the shrapnel. The first layer absorbed every bit of inertia and the damage was surprisingly contained for what it was. That place is *designed* to resist exactly that kind of impact.
Also on the low-framerate security video it passes so fast that it's hard to see. It partially knocked down a section of the outer layer - wall and corridors - but didn't get through the second. There was a piece of the blue and red painted fuselage on the lawn in a famous picture.
bronxiteforever
(10,350 posts)No wonder MTG would deny their death, their very existence. She is a vile racist anti Semite.
The GOP people that live in her district must be professional dirtbags.
I wont forget the loss of these three children. Truth LIVES.
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Bernard was described by his mum as a little boy who lived to go to school.
It was the 11-year-olds love of learning that saw him heading out of his hometown of Washington D.C. on an adventure to the Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary off the coast of California, with a group of teachers and two other students.
Bernard was renowned for his spelling, drawing, and zest for living.
Out golfing for the day, Bernards father, a Navy chief petty officer who worked in the Pentagon, had talked to his son about the fear he had about flying in preparation for his flight to California.
To be honest, we talked about death, Bernard Sr. told NBC. I just told him, Dont be afraid. Just listen to what the people tell you, and the instructions. Youll be all right; youll be fine. He said, Daddy, Im scared, and I said, Hey, dont be scared; dont be afraid to die. Because we are all going to die someday.
Little did he know it would be one of the last conversations he would have with his beloved son, who was on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 am.
Asia was on the same plane as Bernard Brown. It was a dream trip for the smiley, eager-to-learn sixth grader. The 11-year-old had just started at a new school, Bertie Backus Middle School, in Northeast Washington.
Her father, Clifton Cottom, helped to coach basketball, patrolled the halls, and worked as a book clerk in the school same school.
Clifton told a news outlet his daughter was a charmer who was trying hard to grow up, and that she dreamt of becoming a pediatrician. She loved jumping rope and her mother, Michelle Cottom, remembered her daughter loving Tweety gear.
Staff at the school described Asia as a kind-hearted kid, who helped other students with learning difficulties. Neighbours remembered how Asia greeted them when she was playing outside her house with her younger brother.
The day after the hijacking, one of Asias teachers attempted to talk to the class about what had happened: We are missing someone today. Do you know who that is? she asked. Some of the children replied. Yes, they said. Asia.
The last of the three children chosen to participate in the trip to study ecology in California beside National Geographic Society researchers, Rodney accompanied Bernard and Asia on the trip of a lifetime. It was the first time he had ever been on a plane.
One of Rodneys classmates at Ketcham Elementary School remembered him as a kind kid who loved Pokémon and helped other people with their homework if they didnt understand it.
Even though Rodney, who was 11, grew up in a dangerous Washington neighbourhood alongside his two brothers and two sisters, he always made the honour roll at school.
His mother, LaShawn, was a single parent who was raising her children with the help of her extended family, and she encouraged her beloved son to always try and be a role model to his siblings.
Rodney loved reading, playing on the computer, and spending time with his brothers and sisters, but his aunt, Cynthia Dickens, said his favourite thing to do was watch professional wrestling on TV.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/12/remembering-the-children-who-lost-their-lives-on-the-9-11-flights-17355470/
FoxNewsSucks
(11,115 posts)everything BushCheneyCo said about 9/11 without question, and with many aspects that just don't add up.
They lied about EVERYTHING else for eight years. Every lie we knew at the time, and every lie that has since proven we were right and they were liars.
But their official story was swallowed hook line and sinker without a peep. Apparently that's the one thing those lying liars didn't lie about. . .
Which is a separate issue from how much Traitor Green sucks, and how she's nothing more than an ignorant skidmark on the nation's underpants.
no_hypocrisy
(51,240 posts)Let her have it!!!
911! 911!! USA!! USA!!
NewHendoLib
(61,101 posts)

KS Toronado
(21,015 posts)and with his CPR skills saved 100's maybe 1,000's of lives.
NewHendoLib
(61,101 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)dalton99a
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rsdsharp
(10,670 posts)She was on Flight #77. She was very bright, and very, very nice. I have a crystal clear memory of her sitting cross legged on a table in the Law Review offices.
It infuriates me to hear morons like MTG spout garbage like this.
DENVERPOPS
(11,809 posts)of Republicans in the House and Senate are the absolutely most despicable, sub-human pieces of excrement on the planet.......
Dorian Gray
(13,787 posts)where the republicans place their best and their brightest.
Ugh.
TigressDem
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bmichaelh
(780 posts)I am reminded about a film starring Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson
It could also apply to MTG:
Were you always this stupid, or did you take lessons?
ananda
(31,523 posts)...
TigressDem
(5,126 posts)Were you always this stupid, or did you take lessons?
twodogsbarking
(13,393 posts)Lovie777
(18,056 posts)
I don't think she really cares, she a Putin puppet.
genxlib
(5,874 posts)We are not immune from 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
I have had some significant arguments with some people on this site.
They are idiots. Theirs and ours.
ProfessorGAC
(72,361 posts)...in this thread!
I remember those arguments back in the day, too.
The controlled demolition crew drive me nuts.
The air was full of smoke & debris, the buildings collapsed live on international TV, and nobody saw a shock wave. But, it was a controlled demolition. From people who have never actually seen a high explosive detonate. Sheesh!
Bo Zarts
(25,966 posts)She was married to another friend, a fellow airline captain .. he lost his dear wife that day. They had several children who lost their mom that day.
The mental derangement involved in buying into such a conspiracy theory defies analysis. But MTG exhibits derangement in spades .. everywhere .. all the time.
calimary
(85,936 posts)Resistance is NOT futile.
Remaining silent IS. And if silence merely is compliance, then it seems futility is the inevitable conclusion.
thesquanderer
(12,574 posts)TNNurse
(7,310 posts)A dangerous idiot, that should always be included.
IronLionZion
(48,545 posts)so kids don't grow up to be like MTG
AllaN01Bear
(24,815 posts)this stupid remark
bucolic_frolic
(49,912 posts)Initech
(104,532 posts)Fuck these conspiracy theorist lunatics.
question everything
(50,075 posts)Rebl2
(16,171 posts)known for a long time shes an idiot.
Tarc
(10,590 posts)The6y think it was a missile, and that the voicemails left by passengers were faked with voice morphing tech.
These are crazy people.
live love laugh
(15,187 posts)LakeArenal
(29,941 posts)Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who is, to put it mildly, bonkers has been named to the House Homeland Security Committee.
spanone
(138,804 posts)jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)
and thats just at my house
Rhiannon12866
(232,636 posts)Where did she get her news on 9/11??