Andrea Mitchell: ‘Iran Was More or Less an American Ally’ Before Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ Remark

Mediaite ^ | 1/28/14 | Noah Rothman

[Nachum]

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell recalled on Monday some of the most impactful State of the Union addresses in the recent past, focusing primarily on George W. Bush’s post-9/11 speech in which he called North Korea, Iraq, and Iran members of an “Axis of Evil.” Mitchell ripped into Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell for approving that remark which alienated Iran, a country she said had been “more or less an American ally.” Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza said that the “Axis of Evil” address was among the most important State of the Union addresses delivered in recent memory. “That

[MHGinTN]

People like Andrea Mitch are very dangerous and here's how. She is lying to support an agenda which would allow some of the most depraved minds to gain weapons of mass destruction and then use them. And they will use them, even though fools like Mitchell do not allow their warped minds to believe it. So, lets take a look at what Andrea is working to bring about by being a useful idiot.

Iran only needs ONE nuclear weapon, placed in the Yellow Stone volcanic complex, to end the USA. The primitive minds of those who would do that simply employ magic thinking to believe that their moon goddess god, al alah, will reward and protect them from the global consequences of such a terrorist act. Because fools like Andrea refuse to see the truth about demonic things like Iran and Hesballah, etc., she works to allow these primitive, 14th century minds to ruin the world the fool Mitchell lives in! Fools like Andrea and Chrissy Matthews will die in horror mouthing 'what happened'?

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She was probably thinking that because of the long Iran-Iraq war, the enemy of our enemy was more or less our friend.

It doesn't really follow. The enemy of your enemy may also be quite hostile to you, and may hate you more than he hates your mutual enemy.

But Frum's "Axis of Evil" was a moronic idea. The whole point of the Axis during WWII was that they were working together. Iran and Iraq, so far as I know, weren't.

[bigheadfred]

NEWS FLASH

via elizabeth warren on fb andrea mitchell was recently given the name she who walks through shallow waters but it is ok to just call her wade

[kabar]

The Revolutionary Guard still occupy our embassy compound, which they have converted into an anti-American museum. We haven't had diplomatic relations with Iran since November 4, 1979. Some ally.

Former American Embassy in Iran Attracts Pride and Dust-- A dirty doormat, with the words “Down with USA” spray-painted on it, lies at the entrance of what was once the center of American power in Iran. A foam statue, painted bronze, of a United States Marine surrendering to Iranian students is next to the gate.

Known here as “the den of spies,” the embassy is surrounded by high brick walls topped by a rusting iron fence. Inside, the bright-yellow carpeting in the secret communication room has not been changed since radical Islamic students overran the building in 1979 and took 66 Americans hostage in a crisis that lasted 444 days.

[colorado tanker]

I always wonder if the liberal media is that stupid or they just think Americans are that stupid.

Both.

[twister881]

Note there is no *memory* function in the Statist brain:

[Pearls Before Swine]

Andrea Mitchell: not satire?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Heh heh heh...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

She's obviously on crack.

[TWhiteBear]

‘Andrea... you ignorant slut.’
Great point,Clee1
And I don't care that she is married to that fossil Greenspan.
TWB

[kabar]

She was probably thinking that because of the long Iran-Iraq war, the enemy of our enemy was more or less our friend.

We were providing intelligence to the Iraqis. The Iran-Iraq war started on September 22, 1980 when the Iranians still held our people hostage.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

He must have slept through the Incompetent CARTER years, when Carter wanted the Shah of Iran to step down so the crazy shiite Ayatollah Khomeini could seize power. After which the Iranians seized the US embassy and held the people hostage till REAGAN was sworn in as President.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I chalk this up less to Andrea's painfully-obvious stupidity than to her Pavlovian, knee-jerk need to blame anything negative on Bush. Iran is an enemy? It's Bush's fault. No thought goes into it. The response is automatic. Although if Andrea did attempt to think about it, I doubt the response would be any more coherent.

[SharpRightTurn]

This woman is so stupid she doesn’t even realize what an imbecile she is. I suppose the hair dye has penetrated her skull and pickled her brain.

[Seaplaner]

Oh, my.

In an era of progressives telling ever-more-spectacular lies, this might take the yellow cake.

Ms. Mitchell's statement is beyond unsupportable, and appears to be progressive magical thinking.

Everything Ms. Mitchell has said before and will say since is now officially worthless.

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[nuconvert]

And you, Andrea, are more or less an idiot.

[mountn man]

[12th_Monkey]

Kinda forgot the fact that Carter abandoned the Shaw and the fundamentalists took over the country which destabilized the region.

[Tammy8]

So she thinks our allies take over our embassy and take our citizens hostage? After that I think our ally relationship with Iran was at the least a little strained. If she thinks Iran was an ally until Bush called them evil I guess that explains why the lib reporters don’t understand the big deal about Benghazi...

[DuncanWaring]

Better looking than her husband, anyways.