Ron Paul Gives Rick Santorum a History Lesson on Iran

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
August 13, 2011

Ron Paul gave Rick Santorum a history lesson last night at the Ames, Iowa, GOP debate. After Paul said there is no evidence the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons and the United States should mind its own business, Santorum launched into the standard establishment narrative.

He said Iran “must be confronted,” in other words the U.S. must go to war against the Islamic nation, and then described Iran’s government as “a mullahcracy that tramples the rights of women, tramples the rights of gays, tramples the rights of people all throughout their society — and is the greatest supporter of terrorism in the Middle East and around the world.”

Paul then gave the former Pennsylvania senator a history lesson. Anthony Gregory, writing for Antiwar.com, filled in the details:

First, Santorum says Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979. Ron points out that the bad blood between Americans and Iranians began in 1953, when a CIA coup installed the Shah. Indeed, we should remember that before 1953, the Iranians tended to look very warmly upon the Americans, who, unlike the British, had left the Iranians alone. Their democratically elected leader Mohammad Mosaddegh, partly for his popularity due to his resistance to British corporate imperialism, was even Time Magazine‘s Man of the Year in 1951.

Not only did the U.S. install the Shah two years later; the CIA taught his secret police force, Savak, how to torture. Savak went on to imprison and torture tens of thousands of political prisoners, adopting such practices of nearly unfathomable brutality as using broken glass and boiling water on subjects’ rectums, mutilating women’s breasts, and cooking victims alive.

After years of being ruled by this U.S.-backed regime, the Iranians overthrew the Shah and the Islamic Revolution of 1979 swept the nation. But, despite what the propagandists say, Iranians still did not hate Americans for our freedom — only for our government’s foreign policy. All the attempts to get Iranians angry at Americans for our culture or modernity failed, Michael Scheuer, former CIA counterterrorism expert, points out.

Read the rest of Gregory’s post here.






 
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29 Responses to “Ron Paul Gives Rick Santorum a History Lesson on Iran”

  1. I can’t wait to hear Ron Paul give his first state of the union address

  2. Allow me to repeat myself:

    Let’s say we witness the necessary string of miracles it would take to get him into the presidency: he’s not assassinated by artificial heart attack or other means, he somehow manages to defeat the rigged electronic voting machines out there, a “terrorist attack” or “natural disaster” is not implemented to keep Barry in office four more years while his few loyal followers call him a hero for presiding over another tragedy, and Ron Paul actually makes it to the White House…

    He will still be surrounded by murderers and operatives, globalist bankers and their underlings and there’s that trip to the smoky room with the Kennedy assassination footage shot from behind the grassy knoll. Does anyone really believe he would be allowed to alter America back towards the constitution without being scandalized, murdered, or have the whole country held ransom due to foreign threats or acts of war? It is too easy to take down one man. No, I don’t think it’s wrong to hope and to back a man with a near flawless American ideology but unless we all as one transcend the political spectrum entirely, gather the forces necessary to arrest every last bankster and criminal politician and educate the military and public as to how we’ve been played and used by these sick, sadistic child eaters our hopes and dreams for taking back our country will fall to the same old tricks because we could not muster the humanity to ceaselessly share what we’ve learned about human history with those who resist responsibilty.

    We need to evolve ideas about humanity on this planet, listen to what the frustrated and the ignored have to say and be as compassionate as possible even when confronted with unbridled denial and fear. Our armed forces are spread too thin and weary from endless wars. They need to be cared for and reeducated. “Main Stream Media” cameras need to be followed around and signs bearing truthful accusations against our overlords displayed at every pithy story covered. The “trolls” and agents of this system who believe themselves a part of elite or too hateful to care need the most attention and supervision. Communities need to stand up for each other as we resist the growing implimentation of laws to restrict our freedom to farm, grow, educate and nuture our selves. Let no court case be heard against people who resist tyrannical Federal authority with hundreds if not thousands of people showing up to let the agents of the Fed know if they persecute one of us they must confront all of us. If you can afford it do research on as many of your local goons as possible. Expose them all! Get crooked judges and sherriffs out of your towns and elect faithful men and women to the posts.

    And when the times do grow terrifying and impossible as they very likely will do your best to share what you have with your community and plan strageties for defeating and overcoming occupying forces and other disasters. The office of the presidency will not be given to Ron Paul based soley on the will of his supporters nor will it be maintained while we ignore the growing technocratic hell meant to make gods of these soul snatching murderers. The thugs who possess near endless technology and weapons to plunge this country into permanent drought, floods, disease, earthquakes or otherwise DO EXIST and must be stripped of their positions and power. The reality of this technology must be confronted by every human being and used to aid the earth, not bring it to famine and war.

    Our numbers are not a threat to nature as some of the most feeble minded people believe. Those of us herded into cities and shown endless images of the devastation the genocidal lords of industry have reeked on our planet are told it is the individual causing this and not the psychopathic elite who couldn’t care less if they destroy themselves so long as everyone and everything goes with them. They write about their nihilistic philosophies and these writings can be used to educate and awaken. The whole world could change in one day if the seeds of truth we’ve been spreading were realized at once when the next disaster occurs and the establishment is seen tightening their grip around our throats and exploiting the tragedy as they always do. Do not preach violence but be ready to defend your tribe when the time is necessary. Organize, resist and arrest! Trust that if you can imagine it it is a truth somewhere in this universe.

    “All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all conciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. It’s just a ride! And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no job, no savings of money. Just a choice between fear and love. Here’s one thing we can do to change the world to a better ride: take all that money we spend each year on defense, trillions of dollars, and instead spend it feeding and clothing the poor of the world which it would pay for many times over, NOT ONE HUMAN BEING EXCLUDED, and we can explore space, both inner and outer, together as one. Good night, everybody!” -Bill Hicks

    Lastly I would like to give a big shout out to my friend Mary Jane, whithout which this tired plagued mind would not have acheived the knowledge and consciousness I have so early in life. You are unfortunely misunderstood and underestimated but not for long. Peace.

  3. Santorum schooled?

    WTF- Paul wants to let a terrorist state that wants to destroy America have nuclear weapons and we’re supposed to agree to that?

    Give one of those nuke missles to Chavez in Venezuela and have him blackmail America with it. Let’s see how smart Ron Paul is then.

    • Shut up ya pussy

      • That was a stellar response.

    • Let Ron Paul investigate the Fed and get America’s finances in order. This is where he will really make a impact

    • You’re right Jack. Let’s attack everyone we perceive as a “potential” threat. You go ahead and send YOUR kids to die for the empire.

      As for me, I prefer to follow the principles of the founding fathers.

      • Yes so do I but the problem is that there were not nukes being given to a willing enemy in our hemisphere.

        This is not a attack on anyone but America. Being told to shut ya pussy is a classic Alinsky tactic. Threaten and intimidate someone with a opposing view.

    • Jack you are horribly, foolishly dangerous.

    • I know statistically a town in Georgia that has a law making homeowners have a gun the crime rate is 75% below the national average does that not apply to nukes and the the us has the most nukes and are also involved in the most conflicts globally we have to face the hypocrisy

    • Chavez would not blackmail america as long as the usa stays out of venezuelas business. That is what most of these countries we are involved with want. to be left alone. Not to commit world domination but to become first world countries, but they are oppressed.

      Many people make fun of how backwards and dated venezuela and iran are.. well guess why? because the USA and other countries keep screwing with them. And they don’t let them mature as a country since they have been always screwing with them as ROn said with iran and also with venenzuela.

      YOu still buy into this whole deal of EVIL DOERS. That they are evil and the usa is righteous and has sweet smelling flatuelence and rainbows.

      el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz

      but you are a turd and do not want peace go on in your warlike keep dancing for the nwo

  4. Santorum is sitting front row in the yellow bus straight up to school !

  5. ain’t it funny rp doesn’t talk about doing away with corporate donations to a politician.

    • Yeas, but I don’t think he has to, brother Dog. It’s a well-known fact that the lobbyists themselves have named him “Doctor No,” and don’t even bother stopping by his office.

      To me, actions speak louder than words.

      • and yet he protects his crime partners in d.c.

    • And publicly denies that 9/11 was an inside job. Then again, that would sound his death knell politically, so I don’t know. Then again, Florida governor Bob Graham stated in his new book that our government protected Saudi Arabia from connections to some of the 9/11 hijackers. That took some cajones.

  6. Ding! Hear that, Santorum? It’s the class bell. You’ve been schooled. Now here’s your dunce cap. Sit in the corner and shut your pie hole.

  7. Read this and remember: This, more than ever, demonstrates why the Isreali Mossad will ABSOLUTELY detonate a nuclear weapon in America before the 2012 elections, probably before the end of this year, and blame it on Iran.

    THEY MUST ESTABLISH THE NARRATIVE. And, in doing so, they will landmine Ron Paul for speaking in favor of Iran. How can anyone not see this?

  8. and let us not forget USA that tramples the rights of women, tramples the rights of gays, tramples the rights of people all throughout their society

  9. That was awesome Ron Paul totally blew him away. I was cheering when Paul said that.

  10. Rick Santorum does’nt have a clue . RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!

    • Santorum may not have a clue, but unfortunately, RP doesn’t have a chance. They won’t tell anyone that he won in Iowa, and the voting machines will certainly not be programmed to allow him to win an election. placeofrefuge2012.com

  11. Ron Paul is doing a great job. But even if the polls get down to Obama and Ron who says they won’t change the numbers in favor for Obama? I’m sure they are capable of it. And with all the good things that Ron Paul is planning on doing, won’t they just assassinate him like they did to Kennedy? Im not too history savvy, but by looking at what they have done in the past ( admitted and not admitted ) it seems as if theres no hope.

    • sk8er12321

      how very sad but complety true, his life would not be worth a cent. But GOD bless him for trying!

  12. Ron Paul schooled everyone on foreign policy.

    Did you know that a coup d’etat began during the 2008 presidential election?

    Obama is not the president, he’s the acting president. He disappeared for 2 weeks after his election win only to reappear looking exhausted sitting next to John McCain, with a bad poker face, for a press photo shoot. Obama is now a Pentagon puppet.

    Here’s what Obama, Osama, Biden, Bin Laden, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists, and Sarah Palin had to do with the last presidential election and the military’s overthrow of our government. Search ElectNoMoreSpys.blogspot and don’t hesitate to share it.

    • wow… is it true?
      did Obama disappeared for 2 weeks after his election???

  13. Another history lesson that never seems to surface about USA and Iran, was that the first nuclear reactor that Iran had, was built by the United States.

    Amazingly enough that nothing is ever mention of of this program when discussing the ambitions of Iran’s nuclear capability.

    ….A civil nuclear co-operation program was established under the U.S. Atoms for Peace program. In 1967, the Tehran Nuclear Research Center (TNRC) was established, run by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). The TNRC was equipped with a U.S.-supplied, 5-megawatt nuclear research reactor, which was fueled by highly enriched uranium…..

    …anyway Ron Paul is on a roll, 2012 RON ITS ALL YOU!

  14. globalists struggling to be the next slave master again just like every four years with the country mesmerized and hypnotized by it all, wishing like little kids with their fingers crossed for hope and change. And every cycle all they get is more globalism and they see more of the nwo agenda play out. Every four years they get disappointed in the system they belive so much in and have so much faith in. They cry and gnash their teeth wanting so departely for d.c. to love and care for them and then get shit and pissed on again. But yet they continue to praise the politician hoping for change and supporting d.c. with their hard earned money they sacrifice and take from their families in an effort to finally get the change they want. When all they get in the nwo. The thing is most know whats going to happen with d.c. because it happens year after year after year. And yet they still want d.c. to keep enslaving them further and further. that is called stockholm syndrome.

  15. That Prick rick santorum belongs in a Sanitarium……….he’s a fucking nut that needs to be taking gardisil for the veneral warts in his throat he got from sucking rick perry.

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