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47of74

(18,470 posts) Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:33 PM Mar 2016

Cruz defends advisor on SPLC list.

Ted Cruz (R-Fuckstick) defended having Frank Gaffney as an advisor;

Ted Cruz on Monday night defended his decision to include an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist on his foreign policy team.

"Frank Gaffney is a serious thinker who has been focused on fighting jidahists, fighting jihadism across the globe," Cruz said of the Center for Security Policy founder.

The Southern Poverty Law Center added Gaffney's group to its "hate list" in 2016 and calls the former member of President Ronald Reagan's Defense Department "one of America's most notorious Islamophobes."

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Cruz defends advisor on SPLC list. (Original Post) 47of74 Mar 2016 OP

(R-Fuckstick) Skittles Mar 2016 #1

here you go: Gabi Hayes Mar 2016 #2

and let's not forget this guy, who pled down to avoid felony perjury charges, Gabi Hayes Mar 2016 #3

Who is this piece of excrement? 47of74 Mar 2016 #4

Elliott Abrams, a real monster, and I don't use the word loosely: Gabi Hayes Mar 2016 #6

He has the look of one, that's for goddamn sure. 47of74 Mar 2016 #7

"Frank Gaffney is a serious thinker..." Solly Mack Mar 2016 #5

Skittles

(153,138 posts)

1. (R-Fuckstick)

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:34 PM

Mar 2016

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

2. here you go:

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 11:07 PM

Mar 2016

http://www.alternet.org/story/64258/robert_greenwald_destroys_neocon_nutcase_frank_gaffney_%5Bvideo%5D

Frank Gaffney is the kind of person who in a sane media environment would never be allowed in front of a camera again.

Not only is he a moron who agitated for this insane war in Iraq and made it seem like it would be a walk in the park--and is now doing the same with Iran--but he also accused those of wanting to debate the validity of our involvment there of "treason" claiming "it should be a hanging offense."

In other words, he is a lunatic even for a Neocon. But additionally, his think tank--The Center For Security Policy--is funded by you guessed it, defense contractors. I'm sure that doesn't affect his opinion on wanting to fight wars where other people's kids die, well, forever.

So it was nice to see Robert remind him on Hardball today, that executives at places like Blackwater and Halliburton are indeed war profiteers, and these mercs who get paid well in excess of our military men and women, hurt morale.

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

3. and let's not forget this guy, who pled down to avoid felony perjury charges,

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 11:17 PM

Mar 2016

and was disbarred as a result

47of74

(18,470 posts)

4. Who is this piece of excrement?

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 12:43 AM

Mar 2016

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

6. Elliott Abrams, a real monster, and I don't use the word loosely:

Reply to 47of74 (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:05 PM

Mar 2016

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/elliott-abrams-enabler-of-massacres-in-latin-america-is-back-shilling-for-war-with-iran

Elliott Abrams, Enabler of Massacres in Latin America, Is Back Shilling for War With Iran

.....Abrams, a leading neo-conservative who served as George W. Bush's main Middle East adviser, has been pulling out all the stops to help kill the nuclear deal with Iran. In October of last year, in a piece in Foreign Affairs titled "Bibi the Bad Cop -- Can Israel Prevent a Deal With Iran?", Abrams lamented the fact that Israel's options were being limited by negotiations: "Israel does retain one option for stymying the negotiations if they appear to be heading for what Israelis would view as a bad deal, one that would allow Iran to escape sanctions and creep closer to a bomb. That is for Israel to attack Iranian nuclear sites. Its ability to do so is already being narrowed considerably by the diplomatic thaw, because it is one thing to bomb Iran when it appears hopelessly recalcitrant and isolated and quite another to bomb it when much of the world -- especially the United States -- is optimistic about the prospect of talks."

These days, as the time for Congress to vote on the deal grows shorter, Abrams is doing what he does best: throw around charges of anti-Semitism. In his Weekly Standard piece dated August 8, and headlined "Obama and the 'Amen Corner,'" Abrams leads with: "This week President Obama sealed his legacy as the most divisive president in modern times, who will leave behind both worsened race relations and a set of arguments about Iran that will surely feed anti-Semitism."

To get to just how divisive the president has been, Abrams' first paragraph blames Obama for the woeful state of race relations in the country. "A third of the American people, over a hundred million Americans, hold the president responsible for worsening race relations in the country." One of the reasons for this is Obama's "close relationship with people who make a living from bitter race relations, such as Al Sharpton."

Now to the crux of Abrams' argument: Obama is adding another item to this legacy of deeper divisions among Americans," by criticizing those who are opposed to the nuclear deal with Iran, in its "scrambling to defend" it. "The basic idea [Obama is putting forth] is simple: to oppose the president's Iran deal means you want war with Iran, you're an Israeli agent, you are in the pay of Jewish donors, and you are abandoning the best interests of the United States."

47of74

(18,470 posts)

7. He has the look of one, that's for goddamn sure.

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:37 PM

Mar 2016

And he has the look of someone who should have been doing 25 to 500 years in a Supermax.

Solly Mack

(90,762 posts)

5. "Frank Gaffney is a serious thinker..."

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 02:15 AM

Mar 2016

Snort

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