Corbyn insults 9/11 victims

He is 100% right. Of course 9/11 should be commemorated, but the millions slaughtered in response should equally be remembered.

Criticising the War on Terror is 'nonsense' and 'crap'? Let's get one thing straight: 9/11 was a bad thing, an attack on innocent people.But it's not even in the same league of evil as the War on Terror, the worst calamity of the 21st Century so far. And I'm not trying to defend terrorists: I am against terrorism in all its forms. Sometimes when you try to fight fire with fire, all you get is more fire. And the War on Terror wasn't so much fighting fire with fire, as finding out that your chip pan is on fire, then going to your neighbour's house, shooting them in the head, stealing their jewelry and credit card, then uprooting the mains gas pipe and blowing your whole street to kingdom come to cover the evidence of your crime.

Claiming that because he was thinking about the thousands of people killed as a result of pointless and barely legal wars means that he can never be Prime Minister? Saying that because he didn't spend 100% of his day sobbing about a paltry 2,000 victims (who, incidentally, were not killed as a direct result of British government action) that he's "insulting 9/11 victims"? It's all hyperbole. The tweet was almost totally benign, yet you're jumping all over it in order to personally attack him. It's pathetic.

It's not even close to "millions".

And yes, they should be remembered. On any other day than 9/11

ITT multiple people who lack the nuance to understand that its fine to be critical of the Iraq war, just not using and denigrating the 9/11 victims to advance this viewpoint.

Retard.

Over half a million died in Iraq alone.

+1

It's something most people learn whilst being a moody teenager, it's fine to have a point of view about something but it is the nuance in how and when you express it that will determine whether people take you seriously or not.

Re the aftermath the Taliban regime effectively chose to be invaded. They a a clear choice of handing over Bin-Laden or sharing his fate and chose the latter. Of course the fact they were harbouring him doesn't fit the anti-Western narrative of Corbyn and his followers.

Iraq was a debacle as we all know.

Oh, yeah he did insult them didn't he?

Jesus, if he is so unelectable, objectively, why not just leave it at that?

This is not what people in a modern free thinking democracy are supposed to be like

I mean, don't you ever tire of being an authoritarian dupe?

It's about an ideological war to keep certain views out of a democracy and go back to the same paradigm

Yes Corbyn is incompetent and too old, but many of the policy issues won't go away and the tide has turned.

His ratings might actually go up if someone makes him wear a gag.

It's not even close to "millions".

And yes, they should be remembered. On any other day than 9/11

So people on this site hate Hilary for things like supporting the Iraq War but they also hate Corbyn for saying that his thoughts are with people who died in wars that happened as a result of 9/11, in other words the Iraq War.

I mean if he'd said something like the US had provoked 9/11 that would be something to be angry about (and not something I'd put past him) but this is basically saying 9/11 was a disaster both itself and for what happened after.

It's probably much closer to about 250,000 but even if we're go to with your number... can you even count? 500K < 2 million

He said millions, I said it's nowhere near "millions". You say it's 500k in Iraq. So nowhere close to even a million, let alone two. Iraq was by far the biggest theatre for casualties during the War on Terror, so the idea that in the rest of the world you will get anywhere close to more than 2 million is bizarre.

To be frank, I'd be amazed if you even got through high school.