Oh Really, Idiot?

Sometimes, things make me really angry. That usually happens to people. I think the thing that makes me the most angry is ignorance. And I saw a tweet about some news today that made me really angry because of someone's ignorance.

I think it's pretty well known that the Holocaust happened. There were Nazi's and they wanted to wipe out the Jewish people and they had a leader named Adolf Hitler. There was a really big war that came about to try and get that Hitler guy out of power. Kids are taught about this in schools across the world. Germany, as a nation, is still pretty sensitive about the whole thing. There are memorials to those lives lost - both in concentration camps and in the war fought to end it - all over the world. There are Holocaust survivors and war survivors, and even former Nazis still around (and, sadly, neo-Nazi's). Yet there are still people who would deny that this monumental event in history happened.

The name of one such denier comes to mind. Iran's Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

This bone head thinks the Holocaust didn't happen. And as if that wasn't enough to piss me off, he keeps running his mouth about how 9.11 was a fabrication invented by the US Government to validate going to war in Afghanistan and fighting the war on terror.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Now, I was not around for WWII. But I sure as hell was around for 9.11. And ladies and gentleman, I realize that Hollywood has come a long way in the special effects department, but this guy has GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

There's video footage from numerous sources of those planes going into those buildings and what happened thereafter. There's the phone calls from the Hero flight before those folks stormed the cockpit to protect the other terrorist target (widely presumed to be the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC) as well as phone calls from people inside the buildings that had been hit too. So, Mr. Moron-Dictator-Who-Only-Has-One-Khaki-Pants/Jacket-Combo-Suit, are you trying to tell me that was a giant, sci-fi plot that the US Government concocted in cahoots with mega Hollywood producers? You think we took down the Twin Towers and demolished part of the Pentagon with the help of some green screens and some stunt doubles?

Let me tell you, pal ... if American politicians can't even get together to fix healthcare and help get the US economy back on track, what in the hell makes you (again, talking directly to Ahmedinejad-the-Ignorant here) think that American politicians could come together and pull something like THAT off?

And let's just examine yet another fundamental flaw in Ahmadinejad's theory. Does anyone out there recall where the US has focused most of its military efforts since 9.11? Anyone? Anoyone? Bueller?

That would be Iraq. Not Afghanistan. So we're supposed to buy in to this bullshit he's spewing about the US pulling off the 9.11 attacks on themselves so they could go attack Iraq, wait a little while, and then go to real, serious war in Afghanistan.

How is this guy still in power? I'm really, really saddened to believe that he was elected by the people (or rather, that he was able to push enough weight around and bully his way back in to power). But perhaps the most sad part is that there are people out there who believe this kind of nonsense and who are so ignorant that they think these things. UGH!

- The Incident