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This Is the Photo of an Iranian Fisherman Hugging a U.S. Sailor After Being Rescued From Pirates

This is the Photo of an Iranian Fisherman Hugging a U.S. Sailor After Being Rescued From Pirates

U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd greet a crew member of the Iranian fishing vessel Al Molai Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in the Arabian Sea after being rescued from suspected Somali pirates. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

TEHRAN, Iran (The Blaze/AP) — Iran’s government on Saturday welcomed the U.S. Navy’s rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held by pirates, calling it a positive humanitarian gesture.

U.S. officials announced Friday that the fishermen had been rescued by a U.S. Navy destroyer on Thursday, more than 40 days after their boat was commandeered by suspected Somali pirates in the northern Arabian Sea. The rescue came just days after Tehran warned the U.S. to keep the same group of warships out of the Persian Gulf in a reflection of Iran’s fear that American warships could try to enforce an embargo against Iranian oil exports.

“The rescue of Iranian sailors by American forces is considered a humanitarian gesture and we welcome this behavior,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by state TV’s Al-Alam Arabic channel.

Photos of the rescued Iranian fisherman showed them happily wearing American Navy ball caps, with one embracing a U.S. sailor.

Iran’s hard-line Fars news agency had a different take, calling the rescue operation a Hollywood dramatization of a routine event.

The Fars report noted that attacks by Somali pirates in the region are common and said that Iran’s navy has itself freed many mariners held by pirates in recent years without seeking to highly publicize it.

Amid escalating tension with Iran over its nuclear program, the Obama administration reveled in delivering Friday‘s announcement and highlighted the fact that the rescuing ships were the same ones Iran’s army chief had just said were no longer welcome in the Persian Gulf.

“Basically, rescuing trading and fishing boats from the hands of pirates in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden is considered a completely normal issue,” Fars said. “A U.S. helicopter filming the rescue operation from the first minute makes it look like a Hollywood drama with specific locations and actors. It shows the Americans tried to publicize it through the media and present the American warship as a savior.”

The semiofficial Fars news agency is considered close to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard military force.

Fars reported in April that Iranian naval commandos had driven off pirates attempting to hijack a supertanker off Pakistan’s southwestern coast.

“Iran’s navy has rescued various foreign ships from the hands of pirates … but never publicized that,” it said.

Naval forces from several countries patrol shipping lanes in the region in pursuit of Somali pirates. The pirates, who are after huge ransoms, have dramatically expanded their range in recent years and targeted some of the largest vessels to take to the seas, including oil supertankers.

The episode occurred after a week of tough talk from Iranian leaders, including the statement that American vessels were no longer welcome in the Gulf. Iran also warned it could block the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway through which a sixth of the world’s oil flows to market.

The Iranian threats, which were brushed aside by the Obama administration, were in response to strong economic sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear enrichment program. A week ago, President Barack Obama signed into law new sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank and its ability to sell petroleum abroad.

At the same time, Iran has sought to project its naval power, carrying out 10 days of military drills at sea near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

On Saturday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard began new war games near the Afghan border, according to the Guard’s website, sepahnews.com.

Mohammad Pakpoor, commander of the Guard’s ground force, said the maneuvers began outside Khaf, an eastern town near the border. He said the war games were aimed at strengthening Iran‘s borders and increasing the combat readiness of the Guard’s ground force.

Iran is also planning new military exercises near the Hormuz Strait next month.

Comments (118)

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  • mrsalvage2
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:00pm

    There is little doubt that the power of individual good will can be easily overcome by very poor foreign policy.

    Our elmination of their Democracy in 58 did indeed blowback. We had it coming, as we did in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Our corruption has given hold to the Communist position, much like the Corruption in South Africa gave rise to the Communist tactical change of starting a Civil Rights Campaign in order to reach their goals.

    So the ultimate point of poor foreign policy is using wnat ever means opens the door to being called a Rogue State or illegitimate.

    What is being faced right now in the Gulf is the unspoken alliance that is being forged between yet another Gulf State and the unseen and unmentioned actor. While we face a build up in Austrailia, hat unmentioned Actor is China, who was building a fiberoptic ComNet for Saddam (remember?) who was wanting OPEC to go to the EURO and move from the Dollar. Remember?

    Last Week japan, China and I believe India forged an agreement to trade directly between themselves without the use of the Dollar.

    BANG! The US just got shut out of secret taxation the future of the East, if not the world, and the EURO (that proposed tool of Saddam) is not anywhere to be seen.

    This is what it is all about. Israel will decimate Iran if they are the least bit inclined, but then again they are now a Defacto Member of NATO, so do they possess any power over their sovereign will?

    Judging from the USS Liberty incident, I

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:56pm

    I am sure that the people of Iran don’t all represent the leanings of the leaders of Iran.They are being socailly engineered by their leaders and this news will not make it to Iranian media as it paints the “Great Satan” in a good light.

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    • Captain77
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:01pm

      The same thing happens in every country, this nation included.

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:19pm

      So true Captain77, we are being socially engineered by our indoctrination centers we call schools, and the meadia, and politicians.Hitler and Stalin would be so proud of us.

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:31pm

      EXACTLY!! …Indeed, it is NOT the people of Iran but instead their leaders and the Imam in charge giving this country such a bad rap!!

      Remember, the PEOPLE rose up AGAINST their leaders and cried for help from us only to be ignored completely by Obozocommie while supporting his Muslime Brohood!! (What a traitor to our ideals of a Republic and Democracy in general!!)

      Given the harsh suppression of the Iranian peoples and their thirst for freedom again – THEY are more thirsty for our type of government than anyone else in the Middle East region!!

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    • Unix
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:34pm

      It’s not the regular Iranian we need to worry about, it’s those Theologists who want the caliphate, like Ack-My-Dinner-Jacket and the turban headed fool…

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:09pm

      Every man or women yearn to be free, it is how God made us. When we do attack iran, we should reach the people and say that we are liberating them, removing a dangerous regime, then leave quickly. The people of iran will support us. It is coming soon

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    • SDM-Shepherd
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:58pm

      When are they going to rescue us from the pirates in the white house?

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  • Stevsea
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:54pm

    This dog and pony show seems very sketchy to me. Where are the pirates? Disguised Navy Seals acting as pirates and brought to the ship to be debriefed and never heard of again? I want to see the pirates.

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:38pm

      During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:
      HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.
      Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.

      http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/07/31/26940/cheney-proposal-for-iran-war/?mobile=nc

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:14pm

      Any one will to take ‘bets’ on something like this happening with us there???????

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    • QuranIsCorruptAndMuhammadPossessedBySatan
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:26pm

      @stevea, and don’t tell me…you are a RonPaul supporter…lol

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    • denisp52
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:38pm

      The pirates escaped but unforunatly during their escape they were trying to steal more anchor chain than they could swim with and never made it to shore. bummer chain in expensive.

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    • Stevsea
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:14pm

      @QURAN, No, I don’t support Ron Paul. I just don’t trust anyone anymore. @THEWHOLETRUTH, spare me you Soros funded website links.

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    • escape_from_socialism
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:41pm

      Maybe we can send American Navy ship, preferably good sounding name, like freedom or liberty to strait of Hormutz and order Israeli Airforce to sink the ship. Oh wait, It did happend, “unfortunately” Israelis was unable to sink USS Liberty. Russian ship get interested what is going on, and it scared Israelis, and operation to start war with Egypt was abandoned.

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  • bjornskis
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:50pm

    Iranian sailor in the pic when he gets home is going to find some time in prison for hugging and thanking an infidel

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    • sndrman
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:03pm

      at least prison,beheading?he has the great satan “stink on him”…. feel bad for him and his family.

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:33pm

      I would agree, here we see a “Dea d Man Walking”!!!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:31pm

      An infidel by the way means someone who does not believe in one God[Allah].neither christians or jews have historically been considered inffidels by muslims.[and they lived together inharmony till european colonialism pitted them against each other via artifical divisions,privelgeing christians over muslims and zionism]. of course everything changed with the european zionist land grabs[zionists were secular not religious jews] and our cold war policy of propping up dictators for our interests at the expense of the people..

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  • bankerpapaw
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:44pm

    Do you realize that the unions are just as dirty and low-down as Somali pirates? They are holding
    this country hostage.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:06pm

      Yeah!

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:13pm

      Gee! And I thought I was alone in knowing this! Looks like I can come back from the dark side of the Moon! Truer words were never spoken!

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  • VicksVaporub
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:41pm

    Almost forgot.. SANTORUM 2012

    Death to all who oppose America!

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  • JimmyP
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:40pm

    “The rescue of Iranian sailors by American forces is considered a humanitarian gesture and we welcome this behavior,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by state TV’s Al-Alam Arabic channel” A funeral for Mr. Meh-man-parast, his family and all his relatives through the third cousins was held under cover of darkness 48 hours after making this statement. They all died mysteriously

    In other news, state TV Al-aam transmission station, administrative offices and mobile units were all destroyed in a series of unexplained explosions that rocked eight cities thoughout Iran.

    Stay tuned for tonites hilarity when Fred McMahood and My Three Mulahs discover that Uncle Charlie is really Auntie Charleen in her/his Naaqb! Imagine the fun when even Shaggy the dirty filthy disguisting vile dog animal learns how to throw stones as Uncle Charlie/Auntie Charleen gets the royal Sharia treatment of death. Whoo-Boy you’re gonna laff so hard…

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    • db321
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:44pm

      The Iranian Media is not reporting this – I could not live in a Country were the Media does not report the News and where they hide and cover up stories mislead the viewers.

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:30pm

      I hope that was said ‘tongue in cheek.‘ Because if you live in the US you’d have to MOVE.

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    • boydroid
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:02pm

      db321 You live in one now. TG for Glenn and Rush

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  • Commerce Exchange
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:39pm

    great picture.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:38am

      It is true that most of the people in Iran are pro-America. I have many relatives there, as my father is Iranian. I wish the people there will be freed somehow from their evil government leaders. So glad to have been born in America.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:29pm

    Good People make thw World seem Good… Evil People tend to seek Government Jobs!

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    • ken john
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:36pm

      lol

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:35pm

      I REALLY do wish this site had a “likes” register on it to support GREAT postings!

      Well said!!

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  • ThomasUSA
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:20pm

    The Iranian Government will caption this picture as

    American soldier put a death hold on innocent Iranian sailor while two other American soldiers watch and laugh…

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  • FANGS
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:12pm

    What a tearful story. Good vs. Evil. Now America must Destroy the communists who are destroying American Freedom. Unions first, then the whole corrupted democrat party. I’m ready for war, Are You.

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    • grassroots
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:26pm

      Actually you are playing right into their hands. They want us up in arms and fighting in our streets.
      What we need to due if people would wake up is to get Obama and his Chicago thugs out of the White House along with the Pelosi’s, Reid etc. Get rid of the strict EPA rules that are forcing jobs over seas and are making it impossible for us to drill for gas & oil. Than our jobs will return and there will be monies for the cities etc to improve our schools and bring are true history back into the classrooms.

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    • crazyrightwingmom
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:29pm

      Grassroots: So correct. But we must do it with force…they never give up and will not go away unless we are persistent on your goals. Congress has to change also!

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  • FreedomPurveyor
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:09pm

    Wait for the exclusive interview with the fishermen on the Iranian state-run news, where they describe the horrible beatings they had to endure from the Americans.

    That, or nobody will ever hear from the fishermen again.

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:05pm

    I though all the Muslims were evil and bell bent on murdering us.

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:13pm

      I’ve never actually heard anyone say that, though I have heard plenty of people say that is what other people think. I think they call that a “narrative.”

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:17pm

      Oh, hell no! They are ALWAYS thankful for our intervention for their salvation! It’s only LATER when they are comfortable on their Moo-slum prayer mats that they scream to have us all KILLED!

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  • crazyrightwingmom
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:04pm

    We are a force for good, and Obumma wants to shut that good force down. People all over the world pray they we can give them freedom as we have so many others. Strength in the right hands is good!

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    • flyfshr33
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:41pm

      Your name fits…….CRAZY

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:44pm

      I can tell you’ve never been out of this country before. I have, and trust me.. that’s NOT what they say! ‘All of you are arrogant war mongers who want to take over the world. You think you’re so much better than everyone else. Who are YOU to say who can have a nuke and who can’t? *muttering as they walk off “Arrogant a-hole Prix”
      … that’s a quote, by the way, told to me to my FACE by more than one person in Australia in 2002

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:59pm

      TheWholeTruth, when I see a nick like yours, it signalizes that what I would read is either a lie, or not the whole truth.

      I‘ve got Ozzie friends and they don’t hold that opinion. They are not from the left side of the political spectrum aisle. Maybe that is why. The international left always saw US as a country standing in their way of establishing their utopian paradise on earth. They always scapegoated US and their minions were brainwashed to do the same.

      You see, if they picked a specific actions of specific administration, one may consider them having a point form their perspective. But what you usually hear is the sweeping generalizations, and then some other epithets like “noisy, uneducated, self-centered”, etc.

      And then you read polls from hospitality industry outside US and the Americans bubble to the top as “generous, friendly, personable”. You may understand that in the eyes of haters these may turn out into “ostentatiously opulent, in your face arrogant, inconsiderate and imposing”.

      When there is a major disaster, Americans are usually the first to the rescue, dwarfing others with generosity and speed. Plug in the haters assessment as noted above and add some conspiracy angle. But if Americans did not come to the rescue, they’d get a flak too. Bad if you do, bad if you don’t.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:04pm

      The people that show their bigotry regrading US have their views shaped by media (that scapegoats US par the course) and Hollywood productions. They’ve never been in US, so they aren’t aware that the image they see is not the reality, just a skewed image produced by the nest of lefties and “fellow travelers”*.

      *That’s what commies used to call each other to hide their ideological bent. Now they simply use “progressives”.

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  • M13
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:02pm

    They will be tortured and executed for being caught on film hugging Americans or wearing Navy caps.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:31am

      I am praying for them , I do feel that their fate is sealed. M13, I hope somehow they are spared. I agree with the comments that the majority of the country will never know this incident occurred. Allot like our main stream media has become in the past 4yrs. in regards to reporting the news. I agree with the comment about having a like icon to click. Great idea.

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  • blazingaway
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:59pm

    WE’RE JUST bigoted hateful people who condemn all Muslims and are incapable of respecting the freedom, privacy and property of anyone who is Muslim. The US military is the worse of the worse and this act demonstrates the complete and utter depth or deception by the men and women who serve to protect freedom, privacy and property in our Armed Forces. They are unprincipled people, incapable of human compassion or empathy … especially, for the ordinary man or women and even more so for children. The American military is evil, evil, evil in every sense. NOT! BUT I BET THIS WOULD SOUND VERY MUCH LIKE THE REPORT OUT OF IRAN AND I FEAR WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO THESE FISHERMAN WHEN THEY RETURN HOME.

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  • KusoJiJi
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:53pm

    Our men and women in uniform making us proud as usual. Can’t say that about any of the other bloated and incompetent federal agencies.

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  • inferno
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:45pm

    If the US had the mentality of the Iranian extremists, they would hold the fishermen as hostages, as Iran did our people from the US embassy.

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    • Kathleen
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:52pm

      I don’t look at the Iranian people in the same way that I do their leaders. I’m sure, like most people, they just want to live their life in peace, feed their families, find love etc. They are just run by power mongers

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:53pm

      INFERNO 13 men and a fishing boat for the drone ?

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:48pm

      naaa, you’re thinking to small! They would hold the entire COUNTRY hostage!!! Oh wait.. they did that already starting in 1953 when the kicked out the duly elected DEMOCRATIC leader and installed the tyrannical Shaw … my bad

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:16pm

      TheWholeLie,

      once again, you are selectively telling a half of the story that fits your narrative.

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  • Hickory
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:38pm

    We are such bad people……………………… according to the Muslims.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:51pm

      Hickory maybe we could have traded the 13 fisherman for that drone?

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:56pm

      yes look at how bad we are right? rescuing fisherman and all. oh well would be interesting to see the propoganda that is spread how they twist this one

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    • justangry
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:09pm

      The “Muslims” because they’re all the same right?

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:27pm

      justangry, people usually qualify as “radical muslims” or Islamists. However Erdogan (Turkey PM) announced a while ago that there is no such a thing as “moderate’ muslims or Islam, it’s just muslims and Islam.

      See, we are bad to make he distinction and we’re bad not to make the distinction.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:38pm

    America’s Military is a force for good around the world. I know Obama and Ron Paul would inherently disagree with that… but that’s just the way it is. Obama is learning that fact to some degree with his being forced to be CIC and having to be around our Patriotic Military almost 24/7 in one way or another, but Ron Paul I’m afraid would never get it. And HE’S the Veteran.

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:28pm

      Good? A force for Good you say. How is bombing to smitheriens good? How is disrupting people’s lives to the point where they starve, good? How is putting sanctions on countries to where the innocent PEOPLE, not the government suffer terribly, good? How is using depleted uranium, which lasts for millions of years and causes all kinds of birth defects for generations, not to mention kills our on troops, good? How is supporting our ‘enemies’ such as al qaeda, when they are doing what we want, good? How is using our military as Guinea pigs for medical research, good? How is destroying the lives of thousands, even millions, ‘good?‘ I’m just a patriotic as you are. My father was a Marine, my husband was a Marine, my ex husband was in the Navy. War is NEVER good! just ask a Vet.. it’s and ugly thing that is to be avoided if at all possible. Our military is to be used to protect us from invaders… PERIOD. They are not to be sent out into harms way for the ideals and goals of a single person or a hand full of people. Are they out there dying for OUR freedom? NO! Are they out there dying to protect us? NO! WHY are they dying and would you want YOUR son or daughter to die for that very same reason? Our military is being used. Pure and simple. The military industrial complex with those in our government who have stock in the defense industry companies are making money with the lives or our children!!! That’s ALL there is to this and it MUST BE STOPPED!

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:34pm

      Also.. you might want to wonder why the military is giving more support through donations to Ron Paul than all the other candidates combined?????? Don’t you think you should listen to the people who are going out into the frey? I think I would. Look it up sometime.. Why the Military supports Ron Paul. Just that if you‘re going to name names and tell why they are ’crazy‘ and how they don’t respect the military and what they do, you better listen to the one’s you are speaking for.. namely .. the military.

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  • Tom Dooley
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:35pm

    If iran rescues vessels so often how come they did not they rescue there own fisherman for over 40 days?

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    • scuba13
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:59pm

      Maybe they are waiting for next months release of the video game that they saved all those hostages .

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:35pm

    Watch for Obama to send the latest technology home as a peace offering with the fishermen.

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  • LewisLorenz
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:34pm

    What happened to to the pirates. Were they killed, turned over to the Iranians, are we going to prosecute them?

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:48pm

      Where was the “mighty” iranian navy while these fisherman were being held for 6 weeks?

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  • felix
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:28pm

    surely that iranian fisherman will be beheaded !!!

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    • Hiswill
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:40pm

      All the fisherman will be thrown in jail as soon as they get home. They might just spread the word about what a great bunch of guys they met on the ship.

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    • Dave In Arizona
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:50pm

      Sad, but true.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:47pm

      I don’t think so. Their government will say that it is the anti arab/muslim zionists who control the policy of america and the american people are its’ brainwashed pawns.Unimpeded by anti muslim propaganda the american people are as decent as all people would be with the power to intervene when faced with the sight of defenseless people in the grips of armed pirates.This story has to die fast as it goes against the script or it has to be spun with a vengence to not give the gulls any ideas[about peace and brotherhood with muslims].

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  • The_Jerk
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:23pm

    This is how humanitarian nations interact. We need to stop with the warmongering.

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