Posted on 02/12/2002 10:16:28 AM PST by TLBSHOW
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -
Media mogul Ted Turner says the Sept. 11 attacks were an act of desperation, and the hijackers were "brave" but probably "a little nuts."
Turner, in a lecture at Brown University, also compared President Bush (news - web sites) to Julius Caesar.
In a wide-ranging address Monday, the AOL Time Warner vice chairman said the attacks on the World Trade Center the Pentagon (news - web sites) were an outgrowth of poverty.
"The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life," he said.
He said the attacks were an act of desperation, and that Americans lack an understanding of a willingness to die for one's country.
"I think they were brave at the very least," Turner said of the 19 airliner hijackers believed to have committed the attacks, adding that they "might have been a little nuts."
Turner made the comment during a question and answer session after he delivered a lecture on international affairs. An attempt to reach him for comment Tuesday via AOL Time Warner spokeswoman Tricia Primrose was unsuccessful because she did not immediately return a phone call.
Turner also gave his opinion on the 2000 elections and Al Gore (news - web sites)'s loss in the presidential race.
"A few more votes in Florida, and we could have had the best environmental president we ever had," he said. "Now we've got an oil man. He (President Bush) is like another Julius Caesar. Just what we need."
Asked if he would allow public access to his vast landholdings in Montana, he replied: "Can I live in your home with you? We believe in private property in this country."
"You buy it and you can share it," Turner said.
Turner was expelled from Brown in his junior year in 1960 after he was caught living with a girlfriend in his dorm room. The Ivy League school awarded him his undergraduate degree 12 years ago.
Well that would make Clinton Nero....fiddling while America's defences burned.
Does anyone still think that Osama Bin Laden or Mohammed Atta come from poverty?
He said the attacks were an act of desperation, and that Americans lack an understanding of a willingness to die for one's country.
What a complete imbecile! Not one single hijacker died for his country. And I guess the country, America, that has put people on the front line to die for their country, just don't understand that willingness to die.
This guy Turner is a complete idiot and he needs to be booed and hissed every time he steps in public and opens his mouth to expose that stupid brain of his.
American Revolution, 4,435 Americans dead
War of 1812, 2,260 Americans dead
Mexican War, 13,283 Americans dead
Civil War, 558,052 Americans dead
Spanish American War, 2,446 Americans dead
World War I, 116,708 Americans dead
World War II, 407,316 Americans dead
Korean War, 33,651 Americans dead
Vietnam War, 58,168 Americans dead
Gulf War, 293 Americans dead
Lets also not forget those that lost their lives in Panama, Somalia, and all other places in the world, including the ever present war on terrorism.
YUP Ted is right us Americans have no idea about dying for our country. </HEAVY SARCASM>
Remember Ted you friggin moron those brave Americans that have lost their lives in combat did it so a moron like you can get up on a stage and say a retarded comment like that and get away with it.
Yes, and that nut case Clinton is still fiddling.
Of course, it is at Universities where the Clintonoids spoke the most often - and continue to do so......and Turner is simply a Clintonoid reason-dead variant.
Ted Turner
First of all let me say excellent post! I couldn't agree with you more.
Second, this picture begs the question. Who would actually stop and take a picture of this?
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