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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Sat Jul 6, 2024, 05:33 AM Jul 2024

Robert F Kennedy Jr promises to not 'take sides' with respect to 9/11 if elected president

Kinda reminds you of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, wherein he famously promised not to take sides about the whole "attack on Pearl Harbor" hullabaloo.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/05/robert-f-kennedy-jr-september-11

Robert F Kennedy Jr promises to not ‘take sides’ with respect to 9/11 if elected president

Days after saying ‘I am who I am’ in response to sexual assault allegation, long-shot independent presidential candidate revives his 9/11 skepticism

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Fri 5 Jul 2024 15.11 EDT

Robert F Kennedy Jr has made a startling pledge to not “take sides” with respect to the September 11 terrorist attacks if his long-shot presidential campaign vaults him to the White House.

“My take on 9/11: It’s hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t. But conspiracy theories flourish when the government routinely lies to the public,” Kennedy wrote on Friday in a post on X in reference to the deadliest terrorist attack ever aimed at the US. “As president I won’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates.

“But I can promise … that I will open the files and usher in a new era of transparency.”

The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001 after terrorists hijacked and crashed passenger planes into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington DC and a field in Pennsylvania.

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Robert F Kennedy Jr promises to not 'take sides' with respect to 9/11 if elected president (Original Post) sl8 Jul 2024 OP
Well... Mike Nelson Jul 2024 #1
Transparency on 9/11 would be good (whackadoodle gets a part right) JT45242 Jul 2024 #2
Ok but obviously he meant regarding theories Voltaire2 Jul 2024 #3
I think he is referring to the "9-11Truthers." John1956PA Jul 2024 #4
Wha?? BootinUp Jul 2024 #5
I didn't know 9/11 is an election issue. Irish_Dem Jul 2024 #6

JT45242

(2,886 posts)
2. Transparency on 9/11 would be good (whackadoodle gets a part right)
Sat Jul 6, 2024, 05:49 AM
Jul 2024

We all know the overwhelming majority of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals. What has never been released is the extent to which they had backing, ideological, monetary, or otherwise from members of the Saudi royal family.

The attack on Iraq was a total lie. But how many of king Fahd's kids were involved and how?

Voltaire2

(14,700 posts)
3. Ok but obviously he meant regarding theories
Sat Jul 6, 2024, 06:06 AM
Jul 2024

of who did what. It would certainly be interesting to know how deeply involved various Saudi thugocrats were in the operation.

John1956PA

(3,368 posts)
4. I think he is referring to the "9-11Truthers."
Sat Jul 6, 2024, 06:16 AM
Jul 2024

The "9-11 Truthers" maintain the ridiculous conspiracy theory that explosive material had been imbedded into the superstructures and that the explosives were detonated simultaneously with the jets' impact with the towers. The conspiracy theory points to the collapse of Building 7 which came down later in the day and for which no significant outward damage was initially observed. These conspiracy theories have all been debunked, but it is not surprising that this particular person is interjecting them into the current campaign.

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