Friday, April 24, 2009
Canadian-caused Disaster
Having re-classified terrorism as "man-caused disaster," and insisted that illegally crossing the border is "not a crime," Janet Napolitano then declared that all those terrorists — er, man-caused-type-incident specialists — who caused the man-caused disaster on 9/11 entered the country via Canada.
They didn't, and Canadians are understandably miffed at being slandered by the Secretary of Hopeychangey Security. In The Globe & Mail, Lawrence Martin has a, er, novel line of approach:
What is Bush throwback Janet Napolitano doing in Barack Obama's cabinet?
Oh, dear. By contrast, the CBC's Rex Murphy gets to the heart of the matter:
What is Barack Obama doing appointing someone to head Homeland Security, who, eight years after the attacks, does not even now know where the hijackers came from and how they got into their country? Here, it’s not her ignorance about Canada which should be troubling. It’s her ignorance of the most publicized event in modern American history. How can anyone be head of Homeland Security and not know the history of the 19 men who killed nearly 3,000 Americans?
Just so. The mass murderers of Secretary Napolitano's compatriots never set foot in Canada. Under the State Department's Visa Express program for young Saudi males, they filled out joke perfunctory U.S. government paperwork, and even then barely troubled to observe the niceties: "Address while in the United States: HOTEL AMERICA," etc. No octogenarian Toronto snowbird who's been wintering in Florida every year since 1947 would try to get away with answers like that.
A person too incurious to have picked that up over the last eight years is now in charge of Homeland Security.
04/24 09:16 AM
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Maybe it's an Arizona thing...
Okay, in a spirit of bipartisanship:
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.
In its way, this is worse than Secretary Napolitano. The war on terror is supposed to be McCain's area of expertise.
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.
[UPDATE: After innumerable e-mails to the contrary, let me make it clear:
On 9/11, 19 mostly Saudi terrorists killed 3,000 people. Not one of those terrorists ever set foot in Canada or crossed the Canadian/US border. The Napolitano/McCain statements are, yes, insulting to Canadians (and I would be in favor of the Canadian Government expelling the US Ambassador just to make the point), but they are far more deeply insulting to Americans, and especially to the dead of 9/11.]
Her name is not Janet Napolitano, her name is Sheila Broflovski.
ReplyDeleteHey, for once it's not our fault! Napolitano's willful stupidity is to be expected, but McCain's ignorance is unforgivable. Say what you will about B. Hussein Obama, but thank God McCain lost. To have another useless idiot hostile-to-real-conservatives Republican in the White House would be a disaster that America might never recover from. With Obama mucking things up big time, an actual conservative opposition to his misrule is starting to arise, something that would never happen if the uber-partisan Republicans had to constantly defend the liberal McCain from the even more liberal Democratic opposition. It's a lot easier attacking Obama than defending McAmnesty.
ReplyDeletejeppo - I contributed to and voted for McCain, but I am tending to agree with you.
ReplyDeleteGod help us.
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I was just a boy when Janet Napolitano's Black Hawk helicopters came to our remote Canadian village. They fired their missiles at the public library and the burning books and computer workstations lit up like the eyes of Allah.
ReplyDeleteAs bits of charred paper and debris rained down on my flock of budding young NHL all-stars, I put a Jihad on Janet Napolitano. And if you don't believe it, I'll put a jihad on you too.