AFP: Family of ex-Marine held in Iran calls for mercy #humanrights #iranelections #freeiran #twisters

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggyPr97eFsAN4JRzeAd3ilF5JOUQ?docId=CNG.95bc36dad634cf4e60bfbb1d94be195c.3b1

.....” The family of a former US Marine held for 555 days in Iran, mostly in solitary confinement, urged Iranian leaders on Tuesday to show mercy and free him,revealing his father is dying from cancer.Amir Mirzai Hekmati, 29, who is a US citizen born in America to parents of Iranian origin,was detained in August 2011 while visiting his elderly grandmother on his first trip to Iran. He was accused of being a CIA operative, charges which have been vigorously denied by his family and by the US State Department.The family has now written to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for mercy to mark the Persian New Year which falls on March 20.
"We want to emphasize that our family's not political. We're American citizens. Amir's an
American. We are not trying to involve ourselves in the politics between Iran and the US,"
brother-in-law Ramy Kurdi told AFP.”...

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AFP: Family of ex-Marine held in Iran calls for mercy #humanrights #iranelections #freeiran #twisters

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggyPr97eFsAN4JRzeAd3ilF5JOUQ?docId=CNG.95bc36dad634cf4e60bfbb1d94be195c.3b1

.....” The family of a former US Marine held for 555 days in Iran, mostly in solitary confinement, urged Iranian leaders on Tuesday to show mercy and free him,revealing his father is dying from cancer.Amir Mirzai Hekmati, 29, who is a US citizen born in America to parents of Iranian origin,was detained in August 2011 while visiting his elderly grandmother on his first trip to Iran. He was accused of being a CIA operative, charges which have been vigorously denied by his family and by the US State Department.The family has now written to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for mercy to mark the Persian New Year which falls on March 20.
"We want to emphasize that our family's not political. We're American citizens. Amir's an
American. We are not trying to involve ourselves in the politics between Iran and the US,"
brother-in-law Ramy Kurdi told AFP.”...

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#antisemitic co-author of ”Israel-lobby” smear Stephen Walt to address State Dept. #tcot #tjot #jcot #supportisrael

‘Israel Lobby’ Author Addresses State Department | Washington Free Beacon

http://freebeacon.com/israel-lobby-author-addresses-state-department/

RRD: Walt is Mearsheimer's partner in reviving & legitimizing anti-semitic tropes. First it was the ”Jews control America” trope in their book the ”Israel Lobby” & then all the other anti-semitic tropes known to man through Mearsheimer's endorsement of Atzmon's ”the Wandering Who” (see below) which Walt eagerly agreed with.

Yes Mearsheimer is a anti-semite. #tcot #jcot #antisemitism - fightingstatism

http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/yes-mearsheimer-is-a-anti-semite-tcot-jcot-an

Why are John Mearsheimer and Richard Falk Endorsing a Blatantly Anti-Semitic Book? | New Republic

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/97030/atzmon-wandering-who-anti-semitism-israel

RRD: Who is surprised by this? It's only a matter of time before Atzmon himself is invited by Obama to offer his ”dissenting” view alongside the ”dissenting” Hagel & the ”dissenting” Samantha Power ( "So much of it is about: 'Is he going to be good for the Jews?'" fn1) How many anti-semites & apologists for anti-semites must you associate with before we are permitted to call ”Israel's best friend” an anti-semite? We already have had Wright,& Pfleger,then Power then Chas Freeman ,then Hagel & now Walt is making his little trip to what Hagel thinks of as the Israeli controlled State Department.

Footnotes:

fn1.

Samantha Power unplugged (updated)

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/03/samantha_power_unplugged.html

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Romney: # Obamacare Was Very Attractive’ Weekly Standard #tcot #teaparty #tlot

http://m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/romney-obamacare-was-very-attractive_705063.html

....” Moreover, how could Romney assert that Obamacare was — or is — attractive or popular?Republicans won 63 House seats while running against it in 2010. In between 2010 and 2012,Rasmussen Reports conducted more than 80 polls on Obamacare ’s repeal, and in every single one ,the number of likely voters who favored repeal exceeded the number who opposed to it — and always by a margin of at least 5 percentage points . Exit polling during the election itself showed that , even though more voters went for Obama, more voters opposed Obamacare — by a margin of 5 points — even despite Romney’s failure to make the case against it . A CNN poll taken shortly after the election showed registered voters opposing Obamacare by a margin of 10 points ( and independents opposing it by a margin of 22 points ) . In a poll taken just a few days ago , Rasmussen indicated that , by a margin of 19 points ( and 30 points among independents) , likely voters think Obamacare will do m ore damage to the economy than spending cuts will.”.....

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Romney: # Obamacare Was Very Attractive’ Weekly Standard #tcot #teaparty #tlot

http://m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/romney-obamacare-was-very-attractive_705063.html

....” Moreover, how could Romney assert that Obamacare was — or is — attractive or popular?Republicans won 63 House seats while running against it in 2010. In between 2010 and 2012,Rasmussen Reports conducted more than 80 polls on Obamacare ’s repeal, and in every single one ,the number of likely voters who favored repeal exceeded the number who opposed to it — and always by a margin of at least 5 percentage points . Exit polling during the election itself showed that , even though more voters went for Obama, more voters opposed Obamacare — by a margin of 5 points — even despite Romney’s failure to make the case against it . A CNN poll taken shortly after the election showed registered voters opposing Obamacare by a margin of 10 points ( and independents opposing it by a margin of 22 points ) . In a poll taken just a few days ago , Rasmussen indicated that , by a margin of 19 points ( and 30 points among independents) , likely voters think Obamacare will do m ore damage to the economy than spending cuts will.”.....

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Missouri State Senators Mike Parson & Tom Dempsey Begin #Obamacare Sellout RedState #tcot #tlot #wethepeople #twisters

http://www.redstate.com/2013/03/04/missouir-state-senators-mike-parson-and-tom-dempsey-begin-obamacare-sellout/

......” Missouri State Senators Mike Parson and Tom Dempsey are working toward a cave on
Obamacare as best they can in Missouri. Senator Parson has filed SB 456, a “shell” of legislation into which multiple sources in and
around the Missouri legislator expect they’ll put an expansion of Medicaid.”.....

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Missouri State Senators Mike Parson & Tom Dempsey Begin #Obamacare Sellout RedState #tcot #tlot #wethepeople #twisters

http://www.redstate.com/2013/03/04/missouir-state-senators-mike-parson-and-tom-dempsey-begin-obamacare-sellout/

......” Missouri State Senators Mike Parson and Tom Dempsey are working toward a cave on
Obamacare as best they can in Missouri. Senator Parson has filed SB 456, a “shell” of legislation into which multiple sources in and
around the Missouri legislator expect they’ll put an expansion of Medicaid.”.....

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