Time to Call Obama and Kerry What They Are Traitors
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Bfgrn
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LOL...
Why U.S. conservatives love Russia s Vladimir Putin - The Washington Post
While not all conservatives are authoritarians; all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives.
Robert Altmeyer - The Authoritarians
Bfgrn
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Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution
For a start, soon after the occupation of the American Embassy, then-Foreign Minister Ebrahim Yazdi told the Council of Revolution (a transitional council operating prior to the formation of the post-revolutionary parliament) that he assumed the occupation of the embassy was an Israeli-CIA coup. Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan’s entire administration was against the occupation.
Indeed, in the early days there was no talk of hostage-taking. The occupation was initially regarded as a short-term protest against the shah’s admittance to the United States, as the memory of the 1953 coup against Mohammad Mossadegh was still fresh in public memory. But as the event began to play a more important role in domesticIranian and American foreign politics, the protest was transformed into a hostage-taking that lasted for 444 days and had catastrophic consequences for Iran, the US, and international politics.
Soon after the occupation of the embassy, Bazargan resigned and I became responsible for the Foreign Ministry for a short while. During this time, I called all the ambassadors from the European and North American countries and told them that the occupation of the embassy was in fact a strike against the Iranian government; it was we who were being held hostage. I asked them to help us end it.
Soon after, Iran had a presidential election. I openly opposed the hostage-taking throughout the election campaign, telling students that occupying an embassy in the heart of Tehran was a sign of cowardice rather than courage – that through revolution the Iranian people had forced US interference out the door, but that this act brought it back through a window.
By this time, the clergy who were struggling to control the state had begun to support the occupation. One of their leaders in the Islamic Republican Party, Hassan Ayat, criticized me for defining the hostage-taking as illegal, inhumane and illegitimate. Despite this, I won the election with over 76 percent of the vote.
Other candidates also were openly against hostage-taking, and overall, 96 percent of votes in that election were given to candidates who were against it. Hence, the movie misrepresents the Iranian government’s stand in regard to hostage-taking. It also completely misrepresents Iranians by portraying us as irrational people consumed by aggressive emotion, in contrast to the “Western” Americans, who were, as Edward Said once wrote, constructed as “rational, peaceful, liberal, logical” ... etc.
We must ask why the film is based on this false dichotomy, and what political need is served by putting Iranians in such a bad light.
I was deposed in June 1981 as a result of a coup against me. After arriving in France, I told a BBC reporter that I had left Iran to expose the symbiotic relationship between Khomeinism and Reaganism.
Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the “October Surprise,” which prevented the attempts by myself and then-US President Jimmy Carter to free the hostages before the 1980 US presidential election took place. The fact that they were not released tipped the results of the election in favor of Reagan.
Two of my advisors, Hussein Navab Safavi and Sadr-al-Hefazi, were executed by Khomeini’s regime because they had become aware of this secret relationship between Khomeini, his son Ahmad, the Islamic Republican Party, and the Reagan administration.
Christian Science Monitor
Penelope
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That from a jew blogger, who lives in NY, who makes his living off the war on terror. I get confused with you Jews, push for everything literal under the sun, and anti racial, yet when it comes to Arabs , Iran and Islam you have nothing but hatred. Obama removed Saddam? The biggest lefties in the US are Jews.
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Your opinion. I respect your right to your opinion, in spite of the fact that it is horseshit.
Old Rocks
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What scum are the 'Conservatives'. Constantly seeking a reason for war. And constantly lying about what is really happening.
Our President brought us out of what nearly became the Second Great Republican Depression. He established the beginning of a real health care system for this nation. His leadership in the field of renewable energy has led to wind and solar that is cheaper than fossil fuels for generation of electricity. And he has done much more than this, all with the opposition of the GOP at every step.
You guys are clear losers, and have been for the last six years. And will be, once again, in 2016,
Our President brought us out of what nearly became the Second Great Republican Depression. He established the beginning of a real health care system for this nation. His leadership in the field of renewable energy has led to wind and solar that is cheaper than fossil fuels for generation of electricity. And he has done much more than this, all with the opposition of the GOP at every step.
You guys are clear losers, and have been for the last six years. And will be, once again, in 2016,
Old Rocks
You DO know that the "Republican Depression" was brought on by policies instituted by Bill Clinton, don't you??? For example, the housing bubble, caused by Clinton's scheme to let millions of unqualified people to buy houses.....
And most Americans hate Obozocare, so that doesn't help the Dims....
I'm also glad you brought up Obama's many failures in clean energy....
List of Failed Obama Green Energy Solar Companies in the Billions
You DO know that the "Republican Depression" was brought on by policies instituted by Bill Clinton, don't you??? For example, the housing bubble, caused by Clinton's scheme to let millions of unqualified people to buy houses.....
And most Americans hate Obozocare, so that doesn't help the Dims....
I'm also glad you brought up Obama's many failures in clean energy....
List of Failed Obama Green Energy Solar Companies in the Billions
Old Rocks
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Record of Achievement - Expanding Home Ownership
- The US homeownership rate reached a record 69.2 percent in the second quarter of 2004. The number of homeowners in the United States reached 73.4 million, the most ever. And for the first time, the majority of minority Americans own their own homes.
- The President set a goal to increase the number of minority homeowners by 5.5 million families by the end of the decade. Through his homeownership challenge, the President called on the private sector to help in this effort. More than two dozen companies and organizations have made commitments to increase minority homeownership - including pledges to provide more than $1.1 trillion in mortgage purchases for minority homebuyers this decade.
- President Bush signed the $200 million-per-year American Dream Downpayment Act which will help approximately 40,000 families each year with their downpayment and closing costs.
- The Administration proposed the Zero-Downpayment Initiative to allow the Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages for first-time homebuyers without a downpayment. Projections indicate this could generate over 150,000 new homeowners in the first year alone.
- President Bush proposed a new Single Family Affordable Housing Tax Credit to increase the supply of affordable homes.
Old Rocks
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Mr. Obiwan, silly boy, have you ever heard of the Whippet? Many, many failures in the early auto industry. But the failures also point out the very successful programs that have now brought the cost of solar to less than that of dirty coal, or natural gas. And we have two huge factories in the US that are manufacturing grid scale batteries as we post. We also have the premier EV manufacturer in the US. The US government made no money on the Corps of Discovery, but that determined the future of our nation.
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#ObamaSwitchedSides
ISIS is going to build statues of Obama and Val Jarrett
ISIS is going to build statues of Obama and Val Jarrett
Old Rocks
Clinton bears part of blame on the housing bubble too... Seems you are being selective with the facts when you call it a Republican Depression....
Who Caused the Economic Crisis
And don't forget this...
Repeal of Glass-Steagall Caused the Financial Crisis - US News
Now run get today's talking points from Moron.org...
Clinton bears part of blame on the housing bubble too... Seems you are being selective with the facts when you call it a Republican Depression....
Who Caused the Economic Crisis
And don't forget this...
Repeal of Glass-Steagall Caused the Financial Crisis - US News
Now run get today's talking points from Moron.org...
Penelope
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And those huge capitalist banks just loved it, and now they are really too big to fail. The boom happened under Bushes watch, apparently he was too busy with Iraq to notice. (I am not a fan of Clinton, him or his wife just as a disclaimer).
Rubin and his deputy Lawrence Summers also steered through the 1999 repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act (1933), which had separated investment banking from the retail side. It allowed the banks to develop and sell the mortgage-backed instruments that became a principal factor in the financial collapse (Clinton was too busy to notice and so was Bush)
Hossfly
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Should have titled this thread: Progressives For Iran.
AmericanFirst1
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No, the left are the scum, obuthole and his thug administration proves it. Retard.
AmericanFirst1
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Clinton wasn't too busy, he signed the law that caused the collapse.
Penelope
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Yes he was too dumb to veto it. Citibank and Travelers already had merged. You must look at who the SEC was and the Chair of the Fed Reserve. The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA),
was designed by two REPUBLICANS.
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HereWeGoAgain
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What a dumb ass statement.
Do you really think iran is dumb enough to use an ICBM or a bomber to deliver a nuke?
They'll do what they always do...give it to a terrorist group.
And even if we track the isotopes back to them they'll claim it was stolen.
FJO
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Worked with Japan and Germany didn't it?
Are they America's allies and economic partners now?
Negotiations, on the other hand, left America with the rump of the former Soviet Union, RUSSIA, who is getting stronger and stronger as America is getting weaker and weaker.
Lesson of history: Talk and be weak. Perceived or real. Act and be strong. Period.
Negotiating with Iran is about as useful and fruitful as paying protection money to the Mafia.
Well, actually, worse. The Mafia were not Muslims.
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