Vice President Pence Lies About Soleimani,
9/11 in Plain Sight Of Mother, Bible,
Half-Eaten Apple Pie
By Stephen Robinson
January 05, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
Have we mentioned lately that Mike
Pence is a lying weasel? The vice president
tried to plant the bloody glove of 9/11 on
Iranian General
Qasem Soleimani. Pence
claimed in a tweet Friday that
Soleimani, who the US killed good and
dead, "assisted in the clandestine travel to
Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who
carried out the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
in the United States." These are all lies.
But the New York Times reacted as
if he just flubbed an answer on his early
21st century history midterm.
Sigh.New
York Times
This Times headline reads as if "the
Public Record" was Pence's band from the
1990s before he went solo. He's on tour with
some classic war tunes and the Public Record
won't back him again. He'll have to settle
for some random session musicians. The
actual story here, for those of us who took
a journalism class once, is that the vice
president willingly spread falsehoods on
Twitter about Soleimani. He even got the
number of 9/11 hijackers wrong. There
were 19 angry men not 12. It's unclear why
he'd lie about that. Maybe Pence thought 19
was too close to 69. As
Charlotte Clymer quickly pointed out, "Soleimani
quite literally helped the U.S. with
post-9/11 intelligence in Afghanistan
because he hated the Taliban."
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I can't get over the photo art the Times
used for an article about how the vice
president's a shameless liar. It's some
mother and apple pie patriotic bullshit.
I would've gone with a shot of him picking
his nose not solemnly standing by the flag
with his hand plugging the gaping hole where
his soul escaped.
Pence's press secretary kept shoveling
the manure.
This is probably news to the 2002-era
United States that
actively worked with Soleimani to take
out their mutual enemy, the Taliban. Here's
what should concern you: The American
government has a bad habit of blaming
countries for 9/11 before we invade them.
Two years after 9/11, 7 out of 10 Americans
believed Saddam Hussein was involved in
the terrorist attacks. He wasn't. Ellen
Degeneres's buddy George W. Bush frequently
implied a link. This was all
pre-Twitter so Bush and Dick Cheney couldn't
just lie in 280 characters or less like
Trump and Pence do with apparent impunity.
Bush, in his speeches, did not say
directly that Hussein was culpable in
the Sept. 11 attacks. But he frequently
juxtaposed Iraq and al Qaeda in ways
that hinted at a link. In a March speech
about Iraq's "weapons of terror," Bush
said: "If the world fails to confront
the threat posed by the Iraqi regime,
refusing to use force, even as a last
resort, free nations would assume
immense and unacceptable risks. The
attacks of September the 11th, 2001,
showed what the enemies of America did
with four airplanes. We will not wait to
see what terrorists or terrorist states
could do with weapons of mass
destruction."
Oh no! There are so many words! And 9/11
was one of them. Is 9/11 a word? We don't
have time to discuss that! Hussein will kill
us all unless we strike first!
This is why liberal spoilsports like
myself warned against forgiving or worse
forgetting what the architects of Iraq did
not so long ago. We open ourselves up for a
revival of a show we never liked in the
first place, one that technically
never ended.
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This article was originally published
by "Wonkette"
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