There seem to be some US citizens who’re getting quite irate about the possibility that the President of Iran, during his visit to the US, will be going to the site where the World Trade Center buildings used to be in order to lay a wreath and pay his respects.
In fact, one 82-year-old compares it to allowing Hitler to put a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier!.
I’m not sure why.
It’s not like he’s the president of Saudi Arabia – which is where most of the 11/9/2001 hijackers were from. Or that he’s the president of Lebanon, Egypt, or the UAE, which is where all the REST of the 11/09/2001 hijackers were from.
He’s not even a Sunni muslim – Iran is a Shi’ite nation. Those dudes HATE each other.
I really don’t see any reason for being pissed off at his visit that doesn’t basically boil down to a certain Them Ragheads Is Alla Same racism. A swarthy guy with a beard? At GROUND FUCKING ZERO? WHILE EAGLES CRY? THESE COLOURS DON’T RUN! ETC!
The whole thing just makes me sad.
September 21, 2007 at 11:41 pm
They’re getting really hard to parody.
– MugginsM
September 21, 2007 at 11:43 pm
This IS the country whose president just announced that Nelson Mandela was dead.
Sigh.
Besides, they’re _friends_ with the Saudi’s, no matter that it’s their extreme Wahhabism that is fueling (and bankrolling) Muslim terrorism.
September 22, 2007 at 1:52 am
I had to read your comment twice, to check that you weren’t in fact referring to the US. 🙂
September 22, 2007 at 2:07 am
The Mandela comment was metaphorical… He may come across as a dumbass, but that one was not an actual ‘Nelson Mandela is dead’ declaration…
September 22, 2007 at 3:05 am
I just read the transcript of what Bush said, and much as I think he’s a warmongering monkey-boy puppet for his daddy’s friends, it’s pretty obvious that he wasn’t literally referring to Nelson Mandela, but to a Mandala-like figure.
September 22, 2007 at 4:45 am
True. But it still prompted the Nelson Mandela Foundation to comment that Mandela was still alive.
September 22, 2007 at 3:49 am
Quick! Alert the world that you’ve found the answer to who’s responsible!
September 22, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Might I refer you to Scott Adams’ blog on this very subject, which is just sheer genius. I love that man and want to have his baby.