Tag: 9/11

I don’t vote for no 9/11 Troofers.

Simple as that.  George W. Bush did not let it happen on purpose.  George W. Bush did not make it happen on purpose. George W. Bush is not a pawn of the Saudis, the Jews, the Trilateral Commission, and/or the Goldfish Fanciers.  George W. Bush did not lie us into war, he certainly did not lie about weapons of mass destruction, and George W. Bush did not lose that war (although Barack Obama certainly seems determined to).

Just… no.  Not acceptable. Not acceptable at all.

 

9/11.

I can in no way ‘beat’ my friend and colleague Dan McLaughlin’s essay on 9/11, and I am not going to try. I was more fortunate than Dan: the World Trade Center was part of my alternate commute, and by September 2001 I was far away from the area anyway (due to an emergency move a few months earlier). But: they tried to kill me, too.  I was just lucky enough not to be there when they took their shot.

Not much else to say, at this point, except for the obvious: I am alive, Osama bin Laden is dead, and that’s just fine with me*. Also: I have long taken the position that there were two ways people reacted to 9/11.  People either got scared, or they got angry.  I got angry; and I’m pretty sure that this was the psychologically healthy reaction**. Because it’s bad to be afraid all of the time. Messes up your head.

Moe Lane

*Taunting the living can have a purpose; taunting the dead usually does not.

**Some of the people who got scared also got violent about it, as an examination of the career arc of, say, Little Green Footballs will demonstrate.

Libya Foreign Ministry building bombed by terrorists, 9/11/2013.

Details are still sketchy:

Security officials say a powerful explosion has caused serious damage to Libya’s Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the coastal city of Benghazi.

The early Wednesday morning blast also damaged the building next door housing the Benghazi branch of the Libyan Central Bank.

…and there’s no word yet whether this bombing was specifically done in commemoration of last year’s 9/11 al-Qaeda attack on our consulate (and murder of four Americans, including our Ambassador) in Benghazi, or whether it was done in commemoration of 2001’s 9/11 al-Qaeda attack on the WTC and the Pentagon.  Although it’s certainly reasonable for us to embrace the power of ‘and,’ here.

Continue reading Libya Foreign Ministry building bombed by terrorists, 9/11/2013.

Boston Marathon bombers: 9/11 Troofers?

I’ll tell you (heh) truthful: I wouldn’t have been surprised to hear that the Boston Marathon Bombers were domestic, foreign, al-Qaeda, militia, against the wars, against capitalism, against the Jews, against the Christians, against the Muslims… you name it, I’d have been ready to believe it. You don’t need a particular ideology to make and place a bomb.

So I can’t say that I’m shocked that maybe these guys were 9/11 Troofers.

Which means, by the way: probably not al-Qaeda. Pretty much by definition.

Moe Lane

PS: I think that it’s really this guy’s account.

[Expletive deleted] 9/11 Troofer defaces “Liberty Leading the People.”

See, this is why we can’t have nice things:

A visitor to the Louvre’s newest extension, in northern France, has been detained after scrawling an inscription in marker on the famed canvas of Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People.

According to Le Figaro newspaper, the woman wrote “AE911″ near the bottom of the canvas. The inscription stands for “Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth,” a group of individuals who believe George W. Bush is responsible for the collapse of the Twin Towrs in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The group comprises architects, engineers and demolition experts who believe there is empirical evidence to suggest 9/11 was an inside job.

(Via Pejman Yousefzadeh) Actually, you do know what painting it is: it’s this one. Continue reading [Expletive deleted] 9/11 Troofer defaces “Liberty Leading the People.”

I don’t really have much new to say about 9/11.

My prayers and good wishes for the families and loved ones of the victims, obviously.  As for the rest… I am alive, the men who wanted to kill me and mine are largely dead, and that’s the way I wanted things to turn out. Lot of people call 9/11 a tragedy or a catastrophe: personally, I always saw it as an atrocity.  And the American people have a way with dealing with people who commit atrocities. A very, very short way.

But I don’t want to dwell on our attackers.  I want to go on with my life and eat my dinner, and only remember those who cannot share that dinner with me.

#rsrh Aww: al-Qaeda *upset* that people think it wasn’t them behind 9/11.

Unlike @allahpundit, I know exactly how to respond to this report that what’s left of al-Qaeda is outraged that the Iranian regime is spinning 9/11 conspiracies: I think that this is a definite problem that needs to be addressed.  Personally addressed; the United States of America would be happy to discuss this matter face-to-face, as it were.  Heck, we’ll even accommodate the al-Qaeda leadership and come to them.

What’s their GPS coordinates?  If they just send them over, we can be right there.

Moe Lane

PS: I was going to track down the Onion’s old video on the topic, but they’re not taking the failure of their man-god at all well these days so forget about them.