WASHINGTON -- John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States through Canada.
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.
The Arizona senator's remarks prompted the Canadian embassy to immediately reissue remarks made earlier this week by Ambassador Michael Wilson, who reminded Americans once again that no 9-11 perpetrators came to the U.S. via Canada.
"Unfortunately, misconceptions arise on something as fundamental as where the 9-11 terrorists came from," Wilson said.
"As the 9-11 Commission reported in July 2004, all of the 9-11 terrorists arrived in the U.S. from outside North America. They flew to major U.S. airports. They entered the U.S. with documents issued to them by the U.S. government. No 9-11 terrorists came from Canada."
Embassy officials were also in touch with McCain's office to set the record straight. McCain recently visited the Canadian Embassy and had lunch with Wilson.
The normally reserved Wilson made his 9-11 remarks on Tuesday following a CBC interview in which Napolitano appeared to believe that the hijackers entered the U.S. from Canada.
She later said she had misunderstood a question asked during the interview and was well aware there had been no Canadian 9-11 connection, but added that the Canada-U.S. border had, in the past, posed a security risk to Americans.
The next day, Napolitano appeared at a border conference and suggested Canada was more lax in its immigration policies than the U.S., alleging Canadian authorities allow people into the country that would not pass muster south of the border.
Napolitano has also ruffled diplomatic feathers with her insistence that the Canadian border must not be treated any differently than the U.S.-Mexican boundary, where a drug war rages and countless illegal immigrants flood into America every year.
McCain expressed some sympathy for Canada on that front on Friday.
"The difference, obviously, is, with all due respect to the Mexicans, there's not corruption on our northern border," he told Fox News. "And, unfortunately, there is significant corruption, great corruption and drug cartels on our southern border."
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Canadian agencies have been banging their heads against a brick wall debunking the BS claim that the terrorists in 9/11 came from Canada. The real reason, though, that this myth keeps being republicised as fact is to pressure Canada to implement Big Brother measures at the border. Real shocker, complete BS is being spewed out by a high profile politician from the US.
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including Janet Napolitano. She has apologized since then but it seems almost impossible to educate these people. :kabong:
Its the American way, take no blame for your actions, just blame someone else that people don't support. Next they will be blaming us for turning their kids gay, gun crime, and whatever other crazy ideas they can come up with. Just like the idiots blaming us for the new york power outage that originated from the states, as well as caused by bad infrastructure in the states, .
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I think we need an American point of view at this juncture.:33:
The problem is we let Canadians use our internets.
Hard as ever and here to make you people believe...as long as there is one person to hold hope and dream...A GOD...will never die!
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oh well, suck it up and deal with it :spank:Originally Posted by Mels_Smileys45
stupidity knows no borders, but it is amazing how many of these morons get airtime for propagating nonsense.
we're here for a good time, not a long time- so have a good time, the sun can't shine every day.....
Damnit. Another thing to add to my list of things not to trust:
Things that bleed for 5 days and don't die.
Canadians.
Sigh. I'm so paranoid.
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.” - Florence Nightingale
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...our blood runneth cold but our hearts never stop.
Keep on eating bacon and we'll see about that...:bigeyes:
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Mmmmmm!! Baaaacoooonnnn....
S'cuse me. Gotta run down to the grocery store now....
Canadian bacon and Canadian brew..ummm,ummm, good!:usa2:
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