Mahmoud “Blind Pig” Ahmedinajad

Ross Perot, who was the Ron Paul of 1992 (a crazy old man from Texas with a fanatical following and the initials RP who was running for president) once said “Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in awhile.”

That’s pretty much how I feel about Ahmedinajad’s speech to the U.N., in which he said that 9/11 was an inside job.  Mahmoud Ahmedinajad has said more wrong and crazy things than Michele Bachmann.  The last time he gave a speech in the U.S., he said there were no homosexuals in Iran.  He has said that the holocaust didn’t happen.  He is the spokesperson for one of the world’s most insanely repressive regimes.  But he’s right about 9/11.

There are a number of reasons I think so: the beyond coincidental involvement of Marvin Bush, Larry Silverstein’s big insurance payout, Building 7, the PNAC statement, physics, the strange coincidence of George Bush reading to schoolchildren at that moment (Really, how often did that happen?  If he’d been clearing brush on his ranch, I wouldn’t be suspicious at all), the quick hustling of the Bin Laden family out of the country, the crushing thoroughness of the cover-up, and my suspicion that government’s do this kind of thing all the time.

I don’t know if we’ll ever know the truth, but if you want to argue about it, there are a few arguments from the official version supporters which I’m no longer interested in hearing.

1.  You’re all nuts!  You probably believe in Bigfoot and Martians! (no, I don’t.  And you need to update your view of the cosmos.)

2.  I live in New York! I saw it! (So?)

3.  How could you say such a horrible thing?  I had friends who died! (I’m sorry for your loss.  Now, could we get back to the subject?)

4.  I just can’t believe our government would do such a thing! (Have you ever heard of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?  The U.S.S. Liberty?  Medical experiments on unknowing subjects?  Whatever gave you the idea that our government doesn’t do terrible things?)

5.  All of the conspiracy theories have been debunked.  (No, they haven’t, and don’t bother linking to that Popular Mechanics article.  I’ve read it.  It’s embarrassingly bad, filled with straw man arguments and name calling.  It’s very short on mechanics.  And the 9/11 commission report was commissioned, let us not forget, by the Bush administration, who lied to us about plenty of other things.)

6.  How could something that big and complex be kept secret?  (It helps if Rupert Murdoch is part of the conspiracy)

7.  Look at the other conspiracy theorists – You’re agreeing with Ahmedinajad! (Like I said, even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while)