US Hikers Freed from Iran Speak: Thank Penn And Chomsky, Blame Mutual US-Iran Hostility

The Blaze ^ | Sep 26, 2011

[KeyLargo]

US Hikers Freed from Iran Speak: Thank Penn And Chomsky, Blame Mutual US-Iran Hostility for Detention

--------“The only explanation for our prolonged detention is the 32 years of mutual hostility between America and Iran,” said Bauer. “The irony is Sarah Josh and I oppose U.S. policies towards Iran which perpetuate this hostility. We were convicted of espionage, because we are American.”

[silverleaf]

Sean Penn et al will get back their investment in these liberal fools for the book and movie rights to come

These fools listened to prisoner torture for 2 years but they “oppose US hostility” to this regime.

uh...

[KeyLargo]

This was all designed by the left as an opportunity to highlight the U.S. “torture” of poor Gitmo detainees.

hikers in iran, iranians in guantanamo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bUot4Ul-sE

[MrB]

If they were honest...

“not letting them develop a nuclear weapon”
“not letting them wipe Israel off the map”

[The_Reader_David]

Well, it seems we’ve finally found a use for Sean Penn and Noam Chomsky. Is there some way that their public anti-American screeds could cut down to the minimum level which would allow them to continue functioning as hostage negotiators with lunatic anti-American regimes, and we could be spared hearing them otherwise?

[ZULU]

“The irony is Sarah Josh and I oppose U.S. policies towards Iran which perpetuate this hostility.

Initially, I thought that these people were REALLY spies. Who the hell goes for a jaunt along the Iranian/Iraqi Border?

NOW, I think they are just a trio of perverted late blooming flower children. I think its a shame they were released. They needed a few more years in their to “re-educate” them about the REASONS we hate the Iranians. The course they got was apaprently too short.

[Jeff Head]

These leftists were held because they were fool enough to go hiking on the Iran border and the Iranian government figured to score a lot of points politically and influence wise by taking and holding them.

My guess is that these two hoped from the start for some kind of contact with the Iranians that they could then use in an effort to push their own anti-American political agenda.

They found out that the Mullahs hate us all. Despite this, and the US Government working to get them freed, they are now continuing with their original script to blame it all on American foreign policy...basically another version of, "it's Bush's fault."

These embiciles do not even realize that they were lucky to avoid what happened to Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg, both of whom were beheaded.

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY

[KeyLargo]

Think.

Why would Islamists pay for their release?

Obama thanks Oman for helping free hikers

Saturday, 24 September 2011 01:47

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama thanked Oman’s Sultan Qaboos on Friday for his role in getting Iran to free two US hikers jailed there for spying and illegal entry for over two years.

Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, both 29, were flown into Muscat on an Omani Royal Air Force plane Wednesday after the Gulf sultanate of Oman paid their $1 million bail to get them released from Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Their case had poisoned already tense ties between Tehran and Washington.

http://www.brecorder.com/world/north-america/29104-obama-thanks-oman-for-helping-free-hikers.html

[American Quilter]

Send the ungrateful bastards back, and bill them for all the taxpayers’ money spent on their behalf.

[luvbach1]

...oppose U.S. policies towards Iran which perpetuate this hostility.

Of course, to liberals it's always US policies. The kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of dozens of US embassy employees under Carter, Iran's present drive for nuclear weapons, and its avowed aim to destroy Israel have nothing to do with it.

[allmendream]

The kindest thing I can say about the politics of Noam Chomsky is that, by all accounts, he is a first rate linguist.

[luvbach1]

...the Iranian government figured to score a lot of points politically and influence wise by taking and holding them.

Not to mention some pretty heavy coin.

[ETL]

Penn Hangs Again With Pal Chavez:
http://www.newser.com/story/40507/penn-hangs-again-with-pal-chavez.html
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Sean Penn Applauds as Venezuela's Chavez Bashes Bush:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291855,00.html
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From National Public Radio (NPR):
August 29, 2006
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764
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From CBS-News:
July 29, 2006
"Chavez pledged that his country would 'stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,' state television reported. Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit." "'We do not have any limitation in cooperation,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. 'Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.'":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/29/world/main1847331.shtml

[Will88]

We were convicted of espionage, because we are American.”

You were convicted because you are self-deluded ignoramuses. And who with a hint of common sense goes hiking along the Iraq-Iran border?

[ETL]

That IS how they feel (Code Pink), but that pic has got to be a photoshop. They would never be that stupid to say such things openly. Otherwise, they would lose a good sized chunk of their “useful idiot” supporters. ie, those simpletons who actually believe they (CP) are a “peace” group, as opposed to what they truly are: revolutionary communists who never met a violent leftist overthrow they didn’t support.

[Mashood]

Psssst, guys.... I hear North Korea has some pretty neat hiking trails....

[AppyPappy]

It’s funny that they take no responsibility for their own behavior. Did I say funny? I meant typical.

[stevie_d_64]

It’s called the TV remote...;-)

[Iron Munro]

[ETL]

Communist terrorist, Weather Underground leader, wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, with the co-founder of the, er hum, "peace" group Code Pink (Medea Benjamin).

Cliff Kincaid Confronts Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers over Weather Underground Terrorism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db7N9aBRPMw&feature=related
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html

[military cop]

Anybody bother asking what these jackholes were doing in northern Iran in the first place?

I suspect it was to spray paint some “peacelovedope” message up in the mountains of northern Iraq and spread it all over youtube.

Nothing about their story makes any sense.

RLTW