Bachmann, Gohmert and King’s surreal Egyptian presser blames Muslim Brotherhood for 9/11

[Ichingcarpenter]

Tea party-backed Representatives Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday held a press conference in Egypt to thank the country’s military for overthrowing the elected government, and at one point even seemed to suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood had been behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

“Together, we’ve gone through suffering. Together, the United States and Egypt, have dealt with the same enemy,” Bachmann explained. “It’s a common enemy, and it’s an enemy called terrorism.”

“We want to make sure that you have the Apache helicopters, the F-16s, the equipment that you have so bravely used to capture terrorists and to take care of this menace that’s on your border,” she continued. “Many of you have asked, do we understand who the enemy is? We can speak for ourselves. We do.”


“We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed here for the people in Egypt. We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed around the world. We stand against this great evil. We are not for them. We remember who caused 9/11 in America. We remember who it was that killed 3,000 brave Americans. We have not forgotten.”

In fact, the 9/11 Commission determined that Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda terrorist network were responsible for orchestrating the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Following the attack, the Muslim Brotherhood “strongly condemned” the action.

Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who was a top Muslim Brotherhood leader at the time of the attacks, called them “a wrong act which we denounce regardless of its doer.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/08/bachmann-gohmert-and-kings-surreal-egyptian-presser-blames-muslim-brotherhood-for-911/


They went on to say
"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."

[Bolo Boffin]

1. 15 pounds of stupid in a 5-pound sack.

And they even managed to imply that Obama was supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. But they weren't and they're in Congress!

[hobbit709]

2. More like 450 pounds of STOOPID in that sack.

[pinboy3niner]

3. That's only because they know President Obama secretly is an MB member

[Javaman]

4. It's amazing the building didn't collapse out of sadness

from the high concentration of stupidity with in it.

[spanone]

5. hey egypt, keep those dumbfucks over there, please.

pisses me off that as a taxpayer that i'm paying for those stupid fucks trip.

[LibertyLover]

6. I swear that after I read the first couple of sentences

I checked to make sure this wasn't from The Onion or NineInchNails. I simply can't understand that such stupid people got elected to Congress.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. The quote I used at the end is real

its from Dan Quayle.

[FarCenter]

8. The Muslim Brotherhood was a terrorist organization until they renounced violence in the '70s

But large parts of the Brotherhood went on to form the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya. EIJ eventually merged with Al Qaeda.

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri, the current leader of Al Qaeda, was the leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad prior to the merger.

[MisterP]

9. so I presume they're "nay" votes on the US becoming AQ's air force, then...