Posted on 09/25/2015 1:35:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On the day after Pope Francis spoke to Congress about the dangers of violent extremism in the name of religious fundamentalism, presidential candidate Ted Cruz, appearing at a Values Voter summit, threatened to murder Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Texas senator vowed that, if elected, he would rip to shreds the Iranian agreement deal recently passed through Congress, and kill the countrys leader if it didnt give up its nuclear ambitions.
If the Ayatollah doesnt understand that, we may have to help introduce him to the 72 virgins, Cruz said to wild cheers from the audience of conservative Christians.
The senator also stated to great applause that any jihadists trying to enter a military recruiting station would be greeted by the gun barrels of a dozen marines.
The comments came one day after the head of the Catholic church urged members of Congress to embrace their better nature and work to not fall prey to violence and fundamentalism:
All of us are quite aware of, and deeply worried by, the disturbing social and political situation of the world today. Our world is increasingly a place of violent conflict, hatred and brutal atrocities, committed even in the name of God and of religion. We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism. This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind.
Watch Ted Cruzs entire speech at the Values Voter summit below.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Death to all the Iranian Assahollahs!
CRUZ or lose in 2016!
I like it.
I agree.
Republicans have over a year to put their foot deeper and deeper in their mouth.
Eh? Not sure I take your meaning. You think it’s a mistake for Cruz to say what he said?
No, Ted is not.
Screw the socialist Pope, I LIKE TED CRUZ!
I call Ted’s idea a good start :>} Abandoning that concept under the Ford and Carter administrations is what started Middle East Tyrant Sponsored Terrorism. Those two buffoons took out the threat of ones engaging in and ordering terrorism from paying with their very lives.
Well should have helped Mossad take him out long ago. they are the CIA on steroids. :-)
"Death to Iran!"
Don’t we have a law against assassinating the leaders of other countries?
It’s not that I don’t share Cruz’s sentiment, but Cruz is bashing Carson as being unconstitutional for saying we shouldn’t put a muslim in the white house.
If Cruz is going to play the lawyer for something as obviously true as Carson’s statement, Cruz should play the lawyer full time and consistently.
Partisan Media Shills Alert!
So Lincoln and Truman put their feet in their mouths?
Surprising.
Guy’s a genius IQ and obviously his Dad spoke it.
You figure he’d absorb it without even trying.
I think if we bomb an enemy country and the leader(s) happen to die in that onslaught, would you label that an assassination?
Why, Mr Cruz, I do believe you’re flirting with us. Tell us more about how you’d kill the Ayatollah. Please don’t skip any details!
No, not that’s collateral damage.
I believe to be completely legal about it, congress would need to declare war first. Then we can kill the Ayatollah.
IIRC, the ban on assassinating foreign leaders exists as an executive order signed by Gerald Ford in 1975. Would be difficult to codify into law, IMO.
Executive orders can be undone. Hope President Cruz does so in this case. The U.S. Constitution is not involved here.
OK, I’m in.
Go Cruz.
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