Iowahawk spoofs Az 9/11 inscriptions
Posted on 09/27/2006 3:53:04 AM PDT by excludethis
The Republican candidate for Arizona governor says the state's recently dedicated 9/11 memorial should be torn down, calling it an insult to America because of wording that he says criticizes the United States and fails to adequately honor victims and military personnel.
The monument was "supposedly put in place to remember the losses of 9/11, an evil attack on our nation that killed thousands of innocent Americans," Len Munsil said Monday at a rally near the capitol. "Instead it reminds us of American failings and American mistakes, real and imagined before and after 9/11. This memorial is a tribute to moral relativism."
The 54 laser-etched inscriptions on an arc that circles the structure include many from a Sept. 11, 2001, timeline, while others trace events following the terrorist attacks. Topics range from the deployment of 216 Arizona firefighters to the World Trade Center to questions of whether the federal agencies could have uncovered the plot.
The memorial includes quotations like: "You don't win battles of terrorism with more battles" and highlights chronological events such as "Congress questions why CIA & FBI didn't prevent attacks" and "Erroneous US air strike kills 46 Uruzgan (Afghanistan) civilians."
Right below an inscription noting that President Bush addressed the nation the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, is one stating that an unidentified terrorist leader addressed the American people in 2004, Munsil said. "Only in the relativistic context of left-wing protesters holding 'Bush is a terrorist' signs do such inscriptions make any sense," said Munsil, the former head of a conservative Christian advocacy group who won the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the Sept. 12 primary.
"It explains why despite the outpouring of public prayer and the bipartisan singing of 'God Bless America' on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, there is not a single mention of God in this memorial. It explains why there are inscriptions raising conspiracy theories, like questions about whether the U.S. knew of these attacks and didn't prevent them."
Munsil said some parts of the memorial are fine but that the structure should be torn down and replaced with a new one that includes the phrases "Let's roll," "United We Stand" and "God Bless America."
The monument was sanctioned by the state but funded from private sources. It was dedicated Sept. 11, the five-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano defended the memorial as a tribute to 9/11 victims and first-responders and said some inscriptions were being taken out of context. "I'm just sorry that they're trying to politicize 9/11. That's just wrong," she said.
Among the other inscriptions: "FBI agent issued July 2001 warning in `Phoenix Memo,'" "Steve of Scottsdale wrote songs for brother, Robby" and "Violent acts leading U.S. to war, 05-07-1915, 12-07-41, 08-04-64 & 09/11-01."
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Unbefreakinglievable.
Sort of odd stuff to put on a memorial.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Thank you, Debra Burlingame, for protecting us from that outrage.
Arizona needs to fix this.
The one in Pennsylvania was going to have a grove of trees arranged in a crescent shape. That was also offensive (though the designer changed it to a circle after feedback).
How do we alert the average citizen who is not paying attention....to the insidious anti-American weasels in our midst?
Exactly.
A 9/11 memorial should be the easiest thing in world to make. We have hundreds of images from that day, both heroic and horrific. And we have the names of all the innocent people who were killed. Combine those in an honorable way and you have a memorial.
But let a small group of lefties have a say and there won't be a memorial for years. Even decades.
Maybe we can paint the crescent with those.
LOL, just like the proposed United 93 memorial.
Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of our military fighting this WOT.
It's just the Wellstone effect in a new media. This time they're carving in stone, but it's still basically dancing on the grave.
It never fails to surprise me that these fools think that we are too stupid to see what we see!!!!
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