U.S. senator revives 9/11 myth about Canada (more Canada bashing)

[sonicx]

WASHINGTON - Canadian Ambassador Frank McKenna demanded an apology and retraction from a United States senator who claimed yesterday that the terrorists who struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, entered the country from Canada.

Montana Senator Conrad Burns, a Republican, made the charge during a news conference at which he said the "porous" stretch of border between Montana and Alberta is a prime route for drug runners and criminals travelling south from Calgary.

"We have people who farm both sides of the border. So it's very porous," Mr. Burns said, just days after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to consider building fences along the Canadian border. "We've got to remember that the people who first hit us in 9/11 entered this country through Canada."

The accusation brought a quick retort from officials at the Canadian Embassy, who have repeatedly tried to dispel the inaccurate claim that some of the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11 snuck into the U.S. from Canada. "We are in contact with the senator's office and will be seeking a retraction," said Bernard Etsinger, Mr. McKenna's spokesman.

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Mr. McKenna and his predecessor, Michael Kergin, have been bedevilled over the urban legend -- reported in several American newspapers following the 9/11 attacks -- that the hijackers crossed into the country from Canada.

In April, former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich apologized after making the claim on Fox News Channel.

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=aa4a4449-9f41-4e1c-8021-12f8c1c726a9&k=56437

[sharp_stick]

1. Typical Republicanism

Repeat a lie often enough with conviction and many American voters will begin to believe it. Look at how many people still believe that Iraq attacked the WTC in 2001.

[Robert Cooper]

2. Our boy is on it, another loon learns a lesson ;-) nt

[liberal N proud]

3. What is with the repukes and their porous borders?

Do they want to wall this country off from two friendly neighbors?
This is like the guy who moves into the neighborhood and can't get along with the people on either side, so he puts up an eight foot fence.

The question is, Do they want to wall off the borders to keep people out or do they want to create a nation where you can not escape from?
Then they can unleash all sorts of demands such as forced service in the military.

[NYC Liberal]

5. More like, a guy who moves into a neighborhood,

blares loud music and irritates the people on either side - and then erects an eight-foot fence when they complain.

[Don Claybrook]

7. Except that in this case

they had to kill and subdue the original occupants of the house, leaving the remainder of them in a small, sovereign part of the attic.

[NYC Liberal]

8. And Bush is the alcoholic father who beats his wife.

[Peace Patriot]

4. They have Diebold voting machines in Montana, do they?

The question is how did stupids like Conrad Burns slip over the border into our democracy.

[Canuck55]

6. Oh Mr. Burns

Don't you have bigger things to worry about right now in your sad little world? I guess we should have sent him a large campaign donation or hired Abramoff to send him on a golf trip to Hawaii, then he would be singing the praises of that border.

[LeftistGorilla]

9. don't worry....

We'll still come to help you during emergency situations even thought your politicians spit in our faces....

[President Kerry]

15. he ain't my politician.

Just like * isn't my President. And yes, I am American.

[wookie294]

10. Sen. Kit Bond said the "flawed" intel on WMD was Clinton's fault

I heard Sen. Bond the other day on CNN say the "bad intel" on WMD was caused by dismantling the CIA during the 1990s. Neither the CNN host doing the interview, nor the Democratic senator who appeared at the same time, corrected Sen. Bond's lie. But the lie lives on, no doubt. No wonder 60 percent of Republicans think Saddam flew the planes into the buildings. LOL

[Megahurtz]

11. Sounds like Conrad Burns's brain is very porous.

:sarcasm:

[nine23]

12. "Brokeback Mountain" was filmed entirely in southern Alberta.

COINCIDENCE...OR?

(CUE: CNN "doom" music...)


Pat Robertson's running point again. Now, it's not only illegals and 'terra ist's, it's GAY COWBOYS INVADING FROM CANADA!!!

It's really a shame Stanley Kubrick died so prematurely a few years back. I GUARANTEE he'd be working on the long-awaited sequel to "Dr. Strangelove". This stuff is 'writing itself'; he couldn't possibly resist...

[Lisa]

13. I suppose they came over at the notoriously lax Ontario-Vermont crossing

(inside joke ... there IS no shared border between those two jurisdictions.)

[anotherdrew]

14. 19 hijackers my ass... they probably entered thu Langly, VA

this is just another clasic example of HOW FUCKING STUPID REPUBLICANS ARE