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Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio who recently said: “If you think back
to our founding as a country, we are a country of revolution, One could say
that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose
are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast
off the British crown.” and “I think that people of faith understand that for
many of the terrorists, their actions are acts of sacred piety to the point
of losing their lives. And I think that people of faith understand that there
is a heavy religious overtone to the opposition.”
Even after the initial outcry Rep. Kaptur has defended her remarks
and has now gone farther by proposing a new addition to the national monument
at Mt. Rushmore. "I propose in honor of the revolutionary endeavors and
example of Mr. Laden that he be made an honorary founding father of the United
States and to show our appreciation of his sacred piety that we add him next
to George Washington on the monument at Mt. Rushmore. If our founding fathers
had access to passenger jets then I am sure that they would also have murdered
thousands of British civilians by crashing those jets into buildings."
Tom Daschle one of the two Senators from South Dakota had this
to say about the proposed addition to the monument in his state. "While
I think that the proposed additions might be good for the economy of my state
I don’t believe that the timing is prudent."
Sen. Patty Murray who also previously praised Bin Laden when she
said “He�s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building
roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health
care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven’t done that."
And who also requested that $30 million dollars in aid to the then Talaban led
Afghanistan government is also enthusiastically behind this endeavor and added
"Anybody that goes out of the way to build roads in order to gain better
access to terrorist training locations in South America deserves all the positive
recognition he can get."
Senator Trent Lott has also release a statement saying "I
apologize for my previous offensive remarks in wishing that Strom Thurmond had
been President instead. I had previously wrongly thought that there was media
hypocrisy involved in all the attention my previous statement had made compared
to the little media coverage of praise given by an American Senator and Congresswoman
to Osama Bin Laden, but I realize now my comments were much worse and can’t
be compared.
