Singer Tony Bennett has issued an apology for recent remarks he made about 9/11. Bennett previously told radio host Howard Stern, “they flew the plane in, but we caused it, because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.” Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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During the same appearance, Bennett also said that in 2005, President George W. Bush told him, “I think I made a mistake” in going to war against Iraq.
Bennett apologized for the 9/11 remarks in a statement obtained Wednesday by Newsday.
“There is simply no excuse for terrorism and the murder of the nearly 3,000 innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks on our country,” Bennett said in the statement. “My life experiences — ranging from the Battle of the Bulge to marching with Martin Luther King — made me a lifelong humanist and pacifist, and reinforced my belief that violence begets violence and that war is the lowest form of human behavior.
“I am sorry if my statements suggested anything other than an expression of my love for my country, my hope for humanity and my desire for peace throughout the world.”
Bennett did not refer to the Bush/Iraq War comments in his statement. The New York Daily News quoted a Bush spokesman as saying Bennett’s account the 2005 conversation with the president was “flatly wrong.”

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