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Kissinger: ‘Iran Is a Natural Ally of the United States’
Cybercast News Service ^ | October 13, 2014 - 11:49 AM | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 10/13/2014 9:15:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “Iran is a natural ally” of the U.S.

“As long as Iran is ruled by the ayatollah and bases itself on its sectarian philosophy, we have to be careful. But basically, as a country, Iran is a natural ally of the United States. It’s the ideological, religious component that makes it an antagonist,” said Kissinger, who served as Secretary of State for the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombbombbombbombiran; cfr; iran; isis; islam; kissinger; kurdistan; lebanon; nucleariran; nwo; rop; turkey
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To: Eleutheria5

Thank you, was lovely :)


161 posted on 10/16/2014 6:16:53 PM PDT by odds
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To: odds
"Based on what we've witnessed with ISIS, ISIS certainly is a 1st class savage & absolutely subhuman."

Absolutely. We need to do with these rabid dogs first. They are the immediate threat. Long term however, we can't let Iran get the bomb. I can't even imagine a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. If Iran has the bomb, you know that Saudi Arabia and others will try to get the bomb. Does anyone want to see a nuclear armed middle east? Our worst nightmare.
162 posted on 10/16/2014 6:18:26 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: odds

It had to be said. I believe that Israel’s post-American strategy should be to form an Eastern Minorities Alliance (EMA), and all the eastern minorities must hang together if we don’t want to hang separately. I see signs that Israel’s diplo-corp is evolving in that direction, and believe that that evolution is inevitable. I’m just helping it along in my own little way, whispering on the Internet and hoping that some policy wonk in the Foreign Ministry sees my brain child and decides to overtly promote it.


163 posted on 10/16/2014 6:21:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Short term, we need to deal with these savages ISIS. We can’t let them overrun Iraq. If they overran Bagdad I believe the whole region falls into chaos. It just opens up all kinds of escalation. Jordan would probably fall, Iran would get involved in repelling them. It would get ugly.

Long term, we need to deal with the Iranian bomb. We can’t let them go nuclear, period....


164 posted on 10/16/2014 6:23:19 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Eleutheria5
"I don’t particularly care for preserving their artificial borders, originally imposed by the UK for its own nefarious purposes."

Don't forget the French. They had a lot of hand in carving up the Levant area such as Lebanon and Syria.
165 posted on 10/16/2014 6:24:28 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I don’t want the Mullahs to have nuclear weapons, nor do I want ISIS (Daesh) to somehow get them.


166 posted on 10/16/2014 6:26:34 PM PDT by odds
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To: Eleutheria5

Certainly interesting thoughts. It’s attractive. I must think about it and how it would practically work? :)


167 posted on 10/16/2014 6:29:19 PM PDT by odds
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Damned straight. But if, to defeat DAESH, America makes a devil’s bargain with Iran, we’re all in deep s@#t.


168 posted on 10/16/2014 6:32:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Yeah. The French, the British, and their mutually backstabbing little games with regards to Syria and the rest of the region.


169 posted on 10/16/2014 6:34:44 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: tumblindice

91.

“dug him up for halloween” is really funny:).


170 posted on 10/16/2014 6:37:46 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: Eleutheria5
"America makes a devil’s bargain with Iran, we’re all in deep s@#t"

I agree. We can't work with Iran on any issue like this until they give up their nuclear weapons program. That is the long term threat to the region and to us.
171 posted on 10/16/2014 8:44:53 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Eleutheria5

No, before. Saudi Arabia is irans number one enemy, Israel is just for publicity. We must stop our falling for Sunni propaganda and let Iran duke it out with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Israel should sit back and let the two evils fight each other to death


172 posted on 10/16/2014 9:59:56 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: odds

Yes. But lets take TJ is in context. Iran is not the same level of evil as Saudi Arabia or Pakistan


173 posted on 10/16/2014 10:01:29 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Olog-hai

I just talked with a young man originally from Iran, now a Canadian citizen. He lives and works in California, now.

He said most people in Iran hate the mullah dictator government, who rule by force.

He said his brother wipes his ass with pages from the Koran.

He also said it is very, very corrupt and the religious extremists in power are mostly for money, with religion being their cover story.


174 posted on 10/16/2014 10:09:14 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Olog-hai

The pa Islamist is Saudi Arabia. Iran is worse than an infidel nation in their eyes as it is shia


175 posted on 10/16/2014 11:00:13 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Olog-hai
Sorry, Mossadegh was democratically elected to parliament more than once

he was a socialist, yet, but not an Islamist

The Anglo-Iranian Oil co gave Britain more than 50% of the profits from the oil and refused to give Iran the 50:50 deal ARAMCO gave to Saudi Arabia

176 posted on 10/17/2014 10:18:14 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

No, Mossadegh was never elected. Being “elected” by the members of government is an appointment. It’s not even “democratic”.

So when has it been okay to be a socialist so long as one is not an Islamist?


177 posted on 10/17/2014 10:20:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
1. Mossadegh was elected to the Majlis(parliament) continuously by democratic vote, from 1906
2. He was voted PM by the members of parliament -- just as the UK PM is

so he was not "elected by the members of governement" -- rather he was voted to parliament by the people and then elected to government by the representatives

Next -- so you acknowledge you were wrong to call him an Islamist?

He was a socialist, yes, and he would have been better than the Ayatollahs or communists. You take the lesser of two evils -- when the Brits got him out, their actions of taking out a democratically elected leader led to the destabilisation that brought in the Ayatollahs

178 posted on 10/17/2014 9:00:17 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

I don’t recall calling Mosaddegh an “Islamist” nor did I mean to by accident if it looks like I did. I certainly did not mean to call him Islamist nor did I mistake him for same; I regard him as socialist.

That dissembling over prime ministers is specious; even the European Union claims that its Commissioners are installed “democratically” by that same notion. Clearly the position that Mosaddegh occupied is more powerful than that of the UK prime minister since he had to be removed from power forcibly; note that such power was accorded to him by the same Shah originally. Mosaddegh is not a figure to be defended at all.


179 posted on 10/17/2014 9:15:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: truth_seeker

Your friend is very right about mullahs & most of their minions.


180 posted on 10/18/2014 4:06:19 AM PDT by odds
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