A leading Japanese politician espouses a 9/11 fantasy

WP ^ | 03/08/10

[TigerLikesRooster]

A leading Japanese politician espouses a 9/11 fantasy

Monday, March 8, 2010; A12

YUKIHISA FUJITA is an influential member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. As chief of the DPJ's international department and head of the Research Committee on Foreign Affairs in the upper house of Japan's parliament, to which he was elected in 2007, he is a Brahmin in the foreign policy establishment of Washington's most important East Asian ally. He also seems to think that America's rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a gigantic hoax.

Mr. Fujita's ideas about the attack on the World Trade Center, which he shared with us in a recent interview, are too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion. He questions whether it was really the work of terrorists; suggests that shadowy forces with advance knowledge of the plot played the stock market to profit from it; peddles the fantastic idea that eight of the 19 hijackers are alive and well; and hints that controlled demolition rather than fire or debris may be a more likely explanation for at least the collapse of the building at 7 World Trade Center, which was adjacent to the twin towers.

As with almost any calamity whose scale and scope assume historic proportions, the events of Sept. 11 have spawned a thriving subculture of conspiracy theorists at home and abroad. The only thing novel about Mr. Fujita is that a man so susceptible to the imaginings of the lunatic fringe happens to occupy a notable position in the governing apparatus of a nation that boasts the world's second-largest economy.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Sounds like a garden variety life-style leftie, Japanese equivalent of limousine liberal. Still could do a great damage, if placed at an important position way above his pay grade.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[atomic conspiracy]

Yeah, Fujita-san, Pearl Harbor was a hoax too. We used all those torpedoes, bombs, flamethrowers, and the two nukes against a peaceful band of gardeners and tea-servers.

[Carley]

No doubt our msm will have him a charter member of the tea party movement.

[silverleaf]

just call him “Truther-San”

[old curmudgeon]

I would tell him that Hiroshima was also a hoax.

[healy61]

Around here we say a guy like fujita is dumber that $hit.

[poetknowit]

Give this man a cigar!
And, a Toyota.

[mo]

“....if placed at an important position way above his pay grade.”

heck..already is...

[winodog]

I would like to hear the interview.
Everything about 9/11 is fishy.
It stinks to high heaven, just like the dam fedgov.con

[RadiationRomeo]

The article sure calls this guy a lot of names. Seems childish to me.

[TPOOH]

"and hints that controlled demolition rather than fire or debris may be a more likely explanation for at least the collapse of the building at 7 World Trade Center, which was adjacent to the twin towers"

Gee - ya think? Watch the video sometime.

7 Goes Down

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[Dean1949]

Godzilla, Mothra, and George Bush did it...

[AmericanInTokyo]

Oh like that is representative of the entire country. Gimme a FRikkin Break.

It would be like:

VISIT THE UNITED STATES: A NATION OF POT SMOKING WEIRDOS EVERYWHERE

Now would THAT be fair to 95% of Americans?

Let's be fair to 95% of the Japanese.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I personally know this man here in Tokyo.

He is NOT representative of the entire Japanese nation or politicss.

This would be like a Kyodo news story on Dennis Kucinich, speaking for all of American politics and for the US nation at large....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jesse Ventura shows up in Tokyo ?

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VISIT THE UNITED STATES: A NATION OF POT SMOKING WEIRDOS EVERYWHERE

Now would THAT be fair to 95% of Americans?

You tell me, the majority of us elected 0bama...

[AmericanInTokyo]

Not if you throw out all the fraudulent ACORN, Illegal Aliens, and Dead People votes for Obongo!