Posted on 11/13/2009 7:38:55 PM PST by PghBaldy
SHANE BAUER: The fluent Arabic speaker was based in Damascus, where he lived with Sarah Shourd...
...SARAH SHOURD: "Everyday I feel ashamed at what my country has done to [Iraq]".
JOSH FATTAL: An environmentalist and teacher, he was recently employed by a non-profit organisation that researches sustainable lifestyles. He travelled to Damascus in the summer to meet Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd for a hiking holiday. He reportedly posted an entry on his Facebook page on 17 July, saying that he was in the Middle East and planning a trip to Kurdistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
They can keep ‘em as far as I’m concerned.
My thoughts exactly. Perhaps the country would be better off if these sorts of hikers went hiking Gaza and the Lebanese border with Israel in between ceasefires.
I wonder if they still hate the USA.
Let them stay in Iran...
Boo hooo
Then for God sake don't ask for her help now that you are in trouble.
Hey, it’s a nice day - I feel like taking a hike. Where should I go? How about frickin’ Iran - yeah that’s the ticket. Yeah, right.
Sound like they all should be enjoying their stay in good old Iran...
You go guys, have a great time!
Here. please notice that one of them has a high falutin degree in “Peace and Conflict studies.” from Berkley.
http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/03_hikers.shtml
Anyone (liberal airheads) stupid enough to go wandering into Iran deserves whatever they get.
I say let ‘em stay and enjoy the hospitality. Maybe miss “ashamed” will get a re-education.
Old enough to know....
Let’s say we got them out TODAY —does anyone really believe they’d make all kinds of “Thank you America, screw Iran..!”-type statements?
No way.
They’d experience the briefest flash of relief, then to their growing consternation realize that in order to get along in the (liberal) element they were returning to they’d have to CONTINUE making anti-US pronouncements.
In fact, they’d all come under huge, huuuuge pressure to do just that. They’d get lucrative speaking invitations to liberal Universities, for example.
And so they would turn night into day, and say that Iran ***hadn’t been that bad at all, after all***.
SO KEEP THEM.
I always feel like these things are staged. Just like the two Current ‘journalists’ (courtesy of Al Gore) getting picked up inside N Korea. I wonder if they think that Zero will save them and he can look good doing it. What a phony Admin and phony ‘hostage’ accomplices.
Same hate America crowd as the Gorebites who put on the show at the ChiCom/NKorea border.
Remember the American Commies who went to Baghdad as human shields?
All these Commies communicate and plan with one another.
In the case of the Iran hikers, their goal was to keep western forces from striking Iran's nuke sites.
yitbos
They sure don’t sound like undercover CIA operatives, which is the only reason a sane person go on a “hiking holiday” in Iran. So they’re loony private citizens who romanticized hellholes like Iraq while hating the U.S. I see no reason not to just leave them in the land of their dreams.
“JOSH FATTAL: An environmentalist.
translation: “obstructionist”
Gee, i wonder how much jet fuel it took to get those clowns to Iraq so they could go “hiking”.
Yes, please keep them Iran.
these three show all the intelligence one would expect from Berkeley alumni.
After what has happened to other Americans; and these yo yos still go over there.
Just amazing.
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