Posted on 09/25/2011 4:47:05 PM PDT by paltz
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the now freed American hikers who were held in an Iranian prison after being convicted for espionage, appeared before cameras and reporters in New York on Sunday and gave prepared statements about their detentions in Iran.
Bauer, a freelance journalist, along with Sarah Shourd, a teacher and women’s rights activist, and Fattal, an environmentalist, were arrested July 31, 2009 while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan. Shourd was released last year. Bauer's and Fattal's remarks were critical of American foreign policy towards Iran as well as the Iranian government's treatment of it's own people.
"The only explanation for our prolonged detention is the 32 years of mutual hostility between American and Iran. 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," said Bauer. He continued, "It’s that simple. No evidence was ever presented against us. That it because there is no evidence and because we are completely innocent."
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"We do not believe such human rights violations on the part of our government justify what has been done to us. Not for a moment. However we do believe these actions on the part of the U.S. provide an excuse for other governments, including the government of Iran to act in kind," Bauer explained.
I think a VIP trip to Gitmo would be a good thing for this boy. He can see and make up what passes for his mind himself then.
I think they’re worth keeping as laughingstocks.
Starting to think the whole thing was a set-up start to finish.
Were they really under arrest and in an Iranian prison?
Or were they Ahmadinnerjackets guests .
As if Barack Obama would ever want that. Will they ever perceive that the Iranians were lying to them?
The irony is Sarah Josh and I oppose U.S. policies towards Iran which perpetuate this hostility./
These jerks like Iran so much they can go and stay there with no tears shed by me. Lowlife scumbags.
Hence the spying charge. They might have told the world about the wart on said @$$.
Do we know who paid these punks’ ransom?
And who are they going to report any significant findings to? Nobody.
Why would they even do this? Idiots.
Hell, if not even Jimmy Carter could make sufficiently nice to them (the no nonsense Ronald Reagan broadly hinted that an @$$ whooping would shortly come) then what kind of policy would they want the US to show? Would they want the US to set up a new shah, a religiously liberal strongman that would allow the average Iranian to go and come in peace, while rabid clerics languish in jail?
The irony is these morons have viewed the evil that rules Iran first hand and they don't seem to recognize it.
Berkley students...
Can’t find their rear end with both hands, a GPS, and a map.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
I am glad for them and their family that they are home safe. No more than that.
These two idiots make me sick. Leftist traitors in my opinion. What has happened to our country? No wonder Obama got elected with people like this calling themselves “Americans”. I repeat, I am sick of this.
Maybe they want the caliphate as Imanutjob wants. They had better look up the word treason. I don’t think they’ve skirted it, they spoke it straight out.
Those Iranians just don’t have any manners. Even the Vietcong gave Hanoi Jane a warmer welcome.
Figures, for a trio of kids that hardly knows squat about Islam.
do they still have their finger and toe nails?
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