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American woman freed by Iran is grateful, humbled
AP via Yahoo News ^ | 09/14/10 | NASSER KARIMI

Posted on 09/14/2010 11:11:22 AM PDT by Enchante

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To: Enchante
Iran freed Sarah Shourd, 32, after a $500,000 bail ransom was paid to win her freedom.
21 posted on 09/14/2010 11:26:15 AM PDT by stop_fascism (Compared to Moctezuma II, Obama isn't that bad.)
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To: Enchante

thank you sir..... may I have another?


22 posted on 09/14/2010 11:28:04 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: paul51
who paid the 500k ?

I believe we taxpayers did.

23 posted on 09/14/2010 11:29:35 AM PDT by Allegra (Flank steak is very lean.)
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To: Enchante

500K to get a ugly Lefty Back?? Bad deal.


24 posted on 09/14/2010 11:31:32 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Enchante

She was grateful to Iran’s president?????????? Major Stockholm Syndrome, I’d say. How about a little gratitude for the people who raised the $500k?

Anyway, she’s a moron, and probably a lefty. Only the leftist idiots don’t know these people are our ENEMY!!! I suppose the family and friends of this woman are grateful to Ahmanutjob, too.


25 posted on 09/14/2010 11:31:49 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Enchante

It is also colossally stupid to be hiking along the border of a country where US troops are still involved in combat operations and another country that is actively trying to destabilize the first country and considers the US an enemy.


26 posted on 09/14/2010 11:31:59 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Jesus called us to be Salt and Light, not Vinegar and Water.)
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To: frog in a pot

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html

Right now, we are doing it wrong. I guess we are STILL refusing to learn from history.


27 posted on 09/14/2010 11:32:40 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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To: businessprofessor
The Iran government has ventured into state sponsored kidnapping.

Yep. Since November 1979.

I'd love to see several government buildings and mullahs' residences in Iran bombed to smithereens.

Not to mention the nuke plant(s).

28 posted on 09/14/2010 11:33:36 AM PDT by Allegra (Flank steak is very lean.)
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To: flaglady47

Did you watch her eyes during the release conference? She was still scared to death.


29 posted on 09/14/2010 11:34:43 AM PDT by enraged
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To: Enchante

Can we lockup illegals and demand $500,000 bail/ransom? We might be on to something here. Round up enough, maybe we could payoff the national debt. Oh, but I am guessing Mexico won’t pay because they don’t want them back.


30 posted on 09/14/2010 11:34:52 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: saganite

I didn’t say I don’t understand why she will be spoon-feeding propaganda to the media, at least as long as her friends are still captives in Mullah-land..... I said that the spectacle is nauseating.

If a rapist holds three captives and is raping them, but releases one who proceeds to sing the praises of the rapist in order to try to win the freedom of the other two, I can understand why the freed victim says something without either endorsing or approving of it myself.


31 posted on 09/14/2010 11:36:00 AM PDT by Enchante ("The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." -- George Orwell --)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Yeah, lefty would be my guess, or they wouldn’t have been venturing into Iranian territory in the first place.


32 posted on 09/14/2010 11:37:07 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: theDentist
We won’t hear of any mistreatment or of the kangaroo court

afaik they never appeared in court; no hearings had been held yet.

33 posted on 09/14/2010 11:37:18 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Am working on plans for a Knights Templar Community Center next to the Kaaba in Mecca.)
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To: Enchante; All

Early on it was said that she is very ill. Anyone know the nature of her illness?


34 posted on 09/14/2010 11:38:16 AM PDT by davisfh
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To: Enchante

And where in the heck is our fabulous president while Americans are held hostage?


36 posted on 09/14/2010 11:40:40 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: Enchante

I’m thrilled that my money is helping arm Iran so that this empty headed idiot could be freed.

Who vacations in a War Zone (Iraq)?


37 posted on 09/14/2010 11:41:30 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Enchante

***Iran freed Sarah Shourd, 32, after a $500,000 bail was paid to win her freedom.****

Sounds like the traditional moslem practice of kidnapping someone and holding them for ransom.

More about them here!

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/03_hikers.shtml

Wonder if those nice degrees from Berkley in “Peace and Conflict Studies” helped in the REAL WORLD!


38 posted on 09/14/2010 11:42:56 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( AKA Rodrigo de Bivar)
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To: Allegra

Any evidence that the US paid the bail, Allegra?


39 posted on 09/14/2010 11:45:23 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Am working on plans for a Knights Templar Community Center next to the Kaaba in Mecca.)
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To: Cboldt

She was already a muslim sympathizing, israel-hater before she walked into iran. Just another Rachel Corrie type,, and just watch, even after her two buddies are safe at home, she will still have nothing but kind words for iran, and will blame their behavior on their just suspicion of all Americans.

Just watch.


40 posted on 09/14/2010 11:46:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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