GOP leaders criticize Obama's Iran policy in rally for opposition group

[alp227]

Source: The Washington Post

PARIS - A group of prominent U.S. Republicans associated with homeland security told a forum of cheering Iranian exiles here Wednesday that President Obama's policy toward Iran amounts to futile appeasement that will never persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear projects.

The Americans - former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge, former White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend and former attorney general Michael Mukasey - demanded that Obama instead take the controversial Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) opposition group off the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations and incorporate it into efforts to overturn the mullah-led government in Tehran.

"Appeasement of dictators leads to war, destruction and the loss of human lives," Giuliani declared. "For your organization to be described as a terrorist organization is just really a disgrace."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/22/AR2010122205180.html

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Exiles? I was thinking: CUBA.

[arcane1]

1. Dear FBI: Doesn't this count as material support?

Or does that only apply to the rest of us?

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Hardly surprising that the GOP appeals to royalist & loyalists to repressive regimes

Devotees of Batista & Pahlavi - both reactionary US-friendly dictators. Who is surprised that their toadies & minions would obtain succor from our own home-grown fascists - the GOP?

[freshwest]

3. Emboldened by their Koch-funded victories, we knew this was coming

[iandhr]

4. North Korea is...

... the real threat. A lunatic dictator that HAS nuclear weapons is more dangerous then a greater danger then a lunatic dictator that WANTS nuclear weapons.

[RBInMaine]

5. War-Mongering Hyperbolic Assholes. Give me a fucking break.