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Leahy on Iran’s Detention of US Sailors: Wouldn’t We Have Held Iranians in Our Waters?
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/senates-seniormost-democrat-irans-detention-us-sailors-wouldnt-we?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=CNS&utm_term=facebook&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=n-leahy-iran ^ | February 25, 2016 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 02/26/2016 1:26:55 PM PST by Mean Daddy

(CNSNews.com) – The senior Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) implied during an exchange with Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday that Iran was justified in detaining ten U.S. sailors who entered Iranian waters last month.

The incident came up during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the administration’s State and foreign operations budget request, after Kerry argued that the nuclear deal and his relationship with his Iranian counterpart had been responsible for the quick resolution of what he said could have turned into a hostage situation.

Then Leahy spoke: “If we had an Iranian boat, warship – military – boat or ship, with armed Iranians on it. Say it came along the coast, uh, pick a place within our waters, say South Carolina, and was well within the U.S. borders, perhaps had the engines stopped – but armed Iranians,” he said.

“Would we not at least hold them until we found out what they were doing?”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: Vermont; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; jerusalem; johnkerry; letshavejerusalem; lurch; massachusetts; waronterror
Iranian apologist.
1 posted on 02/26/2016 1:26:55 PM PST by Mean Daddy
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To: Mean Daddy

Leaky Leahy.
He should be in prison for his leaks of sensitive information.


2 posted on 02/26/2016 1:28:54 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Mean Daddy

Of course he assumes our guys can’t navigate and were in their waters.


3 posted on 02/26/2016 1:29:49 PM PST by Dennis M.
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To: Mean Daddy

Nope. We’d have turned them around and tell them to have a nice day. Have we ever shot down any Russian or back then, Soviet recon planes?


4 posted on 02/26/2016 1:30:15 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Mean Daddy

I guess Leahy didn’t pay attention to Kerry who aid we contacted the Iranians when we found out one riverine was broken down
and I am pretty sure we would not have made them get on their knees with hands behind their backs OR made a muslim woman take OFf her hijab.
Leahy is a tupid PO


5 posted on 02/26/2016 1:31:04 PM PST by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: Mean Daddy

An Iranian Navy ship off our coast would be an act of war. Iran does not have equal sovereignty as the US and does not have the right to question or act on our navy in their territorial waters.


6 posted on 02/26/2016 1:31:04 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Mean Daddy

We wouldn’t have paraded them out.


7 posted on 02/26/2016 1:35:05 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Mean Daddy

The entire incident has false flag all over it. If it wasn’t a false flag, it was something that wouldn’t pass inspection. Very suspicious set up.


8 posted on 02/26/2016 1:36:21 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Mean Daddy

I’m sick of these apologies.

Like Biden apologizing to Mexico, the country that actively abets illegals breaking into the US, costing us untold billions and crime.


9 posted on 02/26/2016 1:37:06 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Jonty30

Obama would invite them to the WH for a soccer game.


10 posted on 02/26/2016 1:38:31 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Mean Daddy

Have we ever been ruled by such a cabal of traitorous bastards?


11 posted on 02/26/2016 1:40:57 PM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: Mean Daddy
what a moron, he has no clue how many Iranians are coming to the US under the implied invitation from the obozo
12 posted on 02/26/2016 1:42:03 PM PST by drypowder
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13 posted on 02/26/2016 1:43:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Mean Daddy

Is there any degradation so demeaning that democrats can’t rationalize it away?

No one knows because it hasn’t happened yet.


14 posted on 02/26/2016 1:45:04 PM PST by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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To: Mean Daddy

If they could get here, sure.

But, we would at least ensure they had a good ol’ Murican breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon and hashbrowns...


15 posted on 02/26/2016 2:14:47 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Mean Daddy

On the floor? With their hands over their heads? Would we have made any females take off their head covers? Stop being STUPID..


16 posted on 02/26/2016 2:21:34 PM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Mean Daddy

Hey Pat!

WE are NOT IRAN!!!

We know YOU have no standards, but most Americans still do.


17 posted on 02/26/2016 3:05:02 PM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: Mean Daddy

Gee Pat, if those Iranians were so worried about our ships, why didn’t they go board that aircraft carrier we had there?

Here, I’ll explain it for you, Pat.

They didn’t try to board our aircraft carrier because they are a bunch of limp-dicked cowards who only attack boats that are in trouble and can’t blow the crap out of them.


18 posted on 02/26/2016 3:14:10 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Mean Daddy

We would detain them, but we would not make them kneel. We would not make them cry and then film their disgrace under intimidation. We are more civilized.

I think Patrick Leahy is fading mentally, at least that’s the way it appears when he speaks out anymore.


19 posted on 02/26/2016 3:36:42 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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