Posted on 09/23/2012 5:28:35 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Friday accused President Barack Obama of ushering in a second Ottoman Empire in the Middle East through his foreign policy.
Speaking on the House floor, Gohmert accused the Obama administration of allowing Iran to influence Iraq by pulling U.S. troops out, and suggested the attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in the Middle East and North Africa are the result of waning American influence from that decision, The Hill reported.
“Thank you President Barack Hussein Obama. This will be quite a legacy for you,” Gohmert said. “I‘m not one of those who says he’s not a Christian. All I know is that’s between him and God. But what I do know is he has helped jump start a new Ottoman Empire and left our friend and ally Israel so vulnerable in this sea of radicalism that he has helped bring to the surface.”
Gohmert said a recent report showed that approval for the U.S. among those in Muslim countries had slipped from 33 percent under President George W. Bush in 2008 to now just 15 percent under Obama, according to The Hill. A Pew Research Center survey released in June noted that the median approval in Muslim nations for Obama’s policies has declined over the last three years from 34 percent to 15 percent.
“This president is trying to buy affection from people who are bullies, who are radical Islamists, who want to destroy us. You’re not going to get love and affection, you get contempt,” Gohmert said.
Gohmert made a similar reference to a “new Ottoman Empire” in another floor speech earlier this month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJK7QE9YdfQ
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OBAMA/SOETORO," In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans.. I WILL STAND WITH THEM should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Hehehehehe, gotta love Louie Gohmert.
It’s unfortunate that only a tiny fraction of US public school graduates ever learned what the Ottoman Empire was.
“Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Friday accused President Barack Obama of ushering in a second Ottoman Empire in the Middle East....”
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Hey Louie, why aren’t you telling the whole truth?
Obama is ushering an Ottoman Empire in the USA and Congress is not doing anything in preventing it.
or Che Quevara for that matter...
Kevmo ~ His ego is too big, he wants to be fondly remembered in History
meadsjn ~ I disagree with that assessment. There is plenty of evidence to show that he has a long history of seething hatred toward whites and western civilization.
His actions in office have demonstrated that he fully intends to destroy our free republic and replace it with some form of communist dictatorship.
His health care plan strongly hints that humans will be disposed of at the convenience of HIS government bureacrats.
He doesn't give diddly squat about being "fondly remembered" for anything. He is a monster.
History is written by the victors.
If this covert muslim single handedly brings down "The Great Satan", his praises will be sung in mosques for millennia.
What better write-up, how much more glory could any human hope for?
Now let us pray the GOP doesn’t walk this back to bed, but insteads wakes up to the great deception of America...
“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
Louie Gohmert needs to become our new Speaker!
I’m so proud to live in his district. He has virtually no opposition come election day. And no he will not be walking anything back.
That was Obama’s task from the beginning, and some of us saw it.
Thanks to Prince Eugene the first ottoman empire started it’s decline Sep. 11, 1697.
The 11th century saw the rise of the Seljuk Turks and they took over the then still borning Islamic Caliphate, and they were followed by the Ottomans.
WW I saw the end of the Ottomans and the final division of all their former holdings into tiny countries just all over the place.
The current Iranian ambition is to resurrect the Sassanid Empire AND take over all the former holdings of the Ottomans not otherwise owned by the Sassanids.
It's actually quite a bit bolder than a mere resurrection of the Ottomans. The only good part to it is that it would put the Shi'ites on top of things and this time they'd probably spend most their time trying to convert or destroy the Sunni.
The Ottoman Empire was the first nation to recognize American independence, and except for their utterly stupid decision to support Germany in WWI, they've been pretty much an American ally or fan all along. We are a long way away from them, and they are far from us, which is probably why America and Turkey have a fairly amicable record. We could use the Turks standing on top the Arabs and the Persians.
I WILL STAND WITH THEM should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
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great point! Obama wrote in his own book,
he would stand with the MUSLIMS, instead of AMERICANS.
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“I‘m not one of those who says he’s not a Christian.
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the Congressman is being diplomatic.
I have no problem saying Obama is NOT a Christian.
simply on his positive for killing babies
that were “accidently” born ALIVE,
during an abortion.
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some of the earliest writings from Christian leaders,
even pre-dating the final collection of the Bible,
STRONGLY condemned abortion, as a great evil.
did he mean a new Caliphate instead of a new Ottoman Empire?
I dont think the new arab Islamonazi republics will turn over the reigns of government to Turkey.
did he mean a new Caliphate instead of a new Ottoman Empire?
I dont think the new arab Islamonazi republics will turn over the reigns of government to Turkey.
I miss Trafficant.
“The Ottoman Empire was the first nation to recognize American independence, and except for their utterly stupid decision to support Germany in WWI, they’ve been pretty much an American ally or fan all along.”
The Ottoman Empire is not a nation. While the Ottomans were recognizing American independence, they were wiping out villages across Sub-Saharan Africa for ivory, killing every single adult and taking children for harems and soldiers. Before that they were marauding Greek Islands, Vienna, N. Africa and Spain.
Imperialism left living Africans to tell their tale. Ottomans wiped out African cultures totally forgotten now.
After WW1, Gen. Kemel Attaturk transformed Turkey, banning polygamy, the veil, barriers to women in universities & CHANGING THE ALPHABET TO WESTERN. That is why they prosper without oil.
Well, a nice ottoman does go well with an empty LaZBoy.
pretty much Obama's plan for America.
Now, about your time line, the Ottoman Empire begins in 1299 and ends in 1918 (for all practical purposes)
Lot of history in that ~ but never once did Ottoman power extend to Spain ~ Souvrn' Italy, but not Spain.
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