In London, the Star Spangled Banner played during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, while traffic came to a standstill in The Mall nearby.
In Beijing, tens of thousands of people visited the U.S. Embassy, leaving flowers, cards, funeral wreaths and hand-written notes of condolence on the sidewalk out front.
In Moscow, women who spoke no English and had never been to the U.S. were captured on film sobbing in front of a makeshift tribute on a sidewalk, and every single church and monastery in Romania held a memorial prayer.
In France, a well-known newspaper, Le Monde, ran a headline reading, “We Are All Americans.”
In the Middle East, both the Israeli president and the Palestinian leader condemned the attacks, and made a show of donating blood.
Read the rest in a post by Haley Sweetland Edwards. Link
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Unfortunately (and amazingly), Obama has not distanced himself from it and so now becomes part of the same problem.
Sad. Really sad.
Plus, we've heard a lot from conspiracy theorists who fanatically latch onto one seeming inconsistency, even when the inconsistency is based solely on non-empirical observation. But we haven't actually heard from one whistleblower, one "Deep Throat", who was involved in this supposedly enormous conspiracy.
Where's the guy who worked for the demolition company that pre-wired the towers to blow so perfectly. What happened to the plane that didn't actually crash into the Pentagon? Why hasn't it turned up somewhere with a new coat of paint?
You can't keep a secret that big in the government, or in the military. Someone will talk. Bill Clinton couldn't keep an intern under his desk without it making the front pages.
Somebody who seemed otherwise intelligent, once told me that all the Jews who worked in the WTC stayed home that morning. How did they know? it doesn't matter - start a rumour, and no matter how stupid, someone will believe it.