Green Czar Van Jones a 9/11 Truther
A 2004 petition recently surfaced accusing the Bush White House of being behind the 9/11 attacks on the United States, and one of the signatures on that petition was none other than Obama’s Green Czar Van Jones. When presented with this evidence of Van Jone’s support for the 9/11 truther movement, he claimed his signature appeared on the petition because he didn’t read the petition carefully enough to know what he was signing. Uh-hu. I’m sure politicians sign petitions all the time without reading them.
Even if we allow Van Jones his lame excuse, it seems he has other ties to the truther movement, and yet another example of Van Jones radical anti-American views that will be a little harder to dismiss.
On Friday a 2002 document emerged in which Jones was on the “organizing committee” of a newspaper called WAR TIMES — “A New, Biweekly, Tabloid Newspaper Opposing the ‘War on Terrorism.’”
The WAR TIMES document asserts that the “world’s most powerful nation has mercilessly bombed Afghanistan and is installing a neo-colonial government of its own choosing, although that country has never attacked the U.S. Millions of Afghans have been displaced and face starvation this winter. The administration has also green-lighted massive Israeli assaults on Palestine, and it threatens to attack Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, and other countries. The agenda seems clear: to remake the world in the rightwing image with little regard for human consequences.”
WAR TIMES’s announcement appeared with the announcement of a protest march demanding a congressional inquiry into whether and how much the Bush administration may have played a role in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
So, what’s Van Jone’s excuse this time?
But a source close to Jones said that “Jones didn’t participate in and wasn’t part of this march at all. He spent a very brief time on the board of the magazine War Times.” The source says no other connections to the Truther movement other than the petition exist.
He seems not to even see the problem with being associated with this anti-American rag, especially as a member of the organizing committee. He expects us to believe he helped organize events and War Times announcements, but didn’t actually believe in what he was supporting and organizing? Lies, lies, and more lies.
UPDATEFurther proof of Van Jones connection to the “truther” movement.
