Colby, does your computer have a spell check program?

Condictions ?

“the Iranian guards “immediately remind us of comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay,” adding “They would remind us of CIA prisons in other parts of the world.”

One only needs to thank Senator Dick “Head” Durbin and his “Gulag” rants. 

Thank you Senator – you living piece of crap!

I guess if you’re stupid enough to take a hiking vacation in Iraq (especially near trhe Iranian border) you’re stupid enough to believe whether or not we even had a gitmo that Iran wouldn’t have detained you.

That Guantanamo crap keeps coming back to bite in the ass. 

To celebrate , the three plan a hike along the China/North Korea border .

So, they were well with good food?

Good point, Colby… the penalty for lost hiking and the penalty for flying families into buildings/mass murder should be roughly the same….What were we “right-of-center” thinking “railing” against the two situations being compared?

If it wasn’t Guantanomo it would be some other ridiculous excuse. Try listening to Ahmmdinnerjacket sometime and you’ll realize it doesn’t matter what we do, we are to blame.

They are just like children (and democrats) they make flimsy excuses for for anything and everything.

Really?  The US prisoners in Iran got satellite TV, phone access, sudoku, McDonalds and laptops?

http://www.mererhetoric.com/2009/06/04/gitmo-inmates-have-satellite-tv-phone-access-mcdonalds-sudoku-and-now-laptops/

It’s a “recruiting tool ” !

So, spend another billion or two , bring the prisoners to the U.S. to a new facility , which will be called ” Guantanamo Bay North ” .

Who gives a crap about these idiots. Don’t know why we wasted resources to get those people out on bail. No one told them to hike along the boarder of IRAN. IRAN, of all the places on this stinken planet, they CHOSE to hike along the boarder of IRAN. The country that hates the crap out of the US and it’s citizens.

Have we made another huge mistake?
Like working so hard and spending so much to bring these two
assholes home?
Just askin’

Somebody paid $1 million in ransom to get these dickwads out of Iran. Let’s hope they have to pay it back.

Did it not occur to these kids that this analogy also implies that they are terrorists.

Fact: Danny Glover’s friends in South America with the host
Chavez are having a party for the three soon. The entire holly weirdo crowd
will be there.

So the hikers gained weight because they were being fed so well, and they’re in generally better shape than they have been in years because of the care they’ve received?  Because that’s happened at Guantanamo.  

Fact: The two could say hundreds of great comments
about the US but MSLSD will only hear Guantanamo.

Josh Fattal is lucky to have escaped Iran afterall, Iran kills those that are homosexual…..

oooppps…did I just “out” someone

“The two arrived back in the United States and made clear that they saw their 781 days in captivity as nothing more than the symptom of spiteful diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S.”

Yessirreee, it’s just about those two obstinate bullies, the U.S. and Ahmadinejad, in a petty  power struggle. 

It’s more likely they head for the Mexican border so they can be captured and held for ransom by the drug cartels, it’s much more accessible.  Once that Stockholm Syndrome thing sets in, it’s pretty hard to shake off.

Who do you blame for your stammer?

Hillary should thank Iran publicly for the return of our spies and tell them that we are processing the valuable information they brought back .

Who do you blame for your lack of complete sentences?

Who do you blame for your lack of comprehension. If that wasn’t a complete sentence/question, then I’ve got a bridge to nowhere for you.

I wonder what the US had to promise Oman for paying the $1 million which amounts to be as extortion for these ***holes. If it’s going to come out of taxpayer money, then these 3 should be footing the bill. There should be an award given to them, “Dumbest Hikers” award.

Does anyone have any tips for dealing with these RELENTLESS pop-up ads on Mediaite?  

These left-wing hiking clowns should be billed for any time spent by the U.S. govt. to free them.

Oooo, Buce! Who turned you loose?
You left Iran
(You & your man)
Loose as a goose.

i understand these two assholes are thanking hugo chavez and sean penn for their release.  what????

i understand these two assholes are thanking hugo chavez and sean penn for their release.  what????

I don’t know, but after I heard these idiots I thought perhaps they didn’t just “accidently” stray into Iran.  Perhaps they were so freaking stupid that they thought they could become “good will ambassadors” and write about how understanding Iran is, if only we were nicer to them.  

I’m truly thinking they had an agenda.  They’re much too stupid to be spies but they are radical loons much like Fonda was back in the days of Vietnam.  

i have been asking skyfet this for over a year.  i think s/he better pay closer attention in english class.

Aggreed.  Furthermore, they were hiking in Iraq during the peak of the “surge” making it all the more stupid.

These two and their lady friend are the type of people I picture in my mind when I think of a card carrying, cool-aid drinking liberal.

i just hope that not one penny of my taxes went to get these two morons released.  they could have stayed there for eternity as far as i’m concerned.

I’d prefer they went to the Mexican border versus norht Korea. 

If they go to North Korea, they will be captured and held for ransom, costing tax payer money.

If they go to Mexico, they will just cut their heads off and make ash trays out of their skulls.  …Much easier on my wallet.

Liberal punks.

Only crazy Liberals would hike along the border of Iraq and Iran.

Try Disneyland next time…

These three should be sent straight to “idiot” jail for all the diplomatic energy wasted on their stunt.
They should have to pay back any $ to the taxpayers that was spent on their behalf.  I’m sick of watching them become media darlings because they clearly have/had an adgenda

We have Gitmo because we’re missing a couple of buildings. We’re not missing any buildings because we have Gitmo.

Actually, they mentioned going on repeated hunger strikes because they weren’t allowed to get mail. No word on whether they had basketball courts or Bibles in Iran.

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I mean, wow.  Two American hikers are unjustly imprisoned in reprehensible conditions for two years, and you couldn’t care less about their welfare because they dared to repeat what they were told by their captors?

For shame.

Good God, they are VICTIMS and they are AMERICANS.  

Are you really so inhumane and bitter as to have no sympathy for what they experienced simply because they might be liberal??

Why wouldn’t they thank the people who went out of their way to ensure their release after two years of hell?

“Sean Penn played a real-life role in the mediation that secured the release of two American hikers who were held captive in Iran for more than two years.  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged his ally, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to release the hikers after the South American leader was lobbied by pals in U.S. ’intellectual circles,’ Reuters reported.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/09/23/2011-09-23_sean_penn_pushed_hugo_chavez_to_help_free_american_hikers_from_iran.html

Shutty!  I have no sympathy for someone who compares this country to Iran.  And your FAUX outrage is really getting tired.

Some of the people commenting here are truly despicable.

I would never – EVER – insinuate that any innocent American deserves to be unjustly imprisoned simply because I happened to disagree with her politics.  I don’t care if they’re liberal or conservative, rich or poor, management or labor – these men are Americans and they deserve our support.

Leave it to Mediaite commenters to profess to love America, but display sheer hatred for Americans. Really, for shame.

I have no sympathy for them because they brought the imprisonment upon themselves. They weren’t hiking along the Iraq-Iran border in the middle of a surge to observe nature & culture. They wanted something to happen, they clearly had (and have) an agenda.

How about you guide their next excursion?

YAWN

Nice rant, but nobody is saying what you claim. Typical.

How on earth would you know whether my outrage is real or fake?

And please, explain to me where THEY compared this country to Iran.  From what the story explains, all they did is repeat what their captors said.  

Beyond that, the irony and your cognitive dissonance are really quite stunning.  You have no sympathy for American political prisoners because they happen to have the audacity to express an opinion that, in your mind, draws a comparison between Iran and America.  Isn’t the ability to express an opinion openly and freely – the ability to criticize your government – EXACTLY what makes this country better than Iran? 

oh please. just more crazy leftielunatics trashing the u.s.a. i really could care less about their “welfare”.

I know your outrage is FAUX because it’s so selective.  You get more shrill by the day.  But I don’t really blame you.  Your dreams of The One ushering in the age of liberal rule have been an utter failure.

because i believe these 2 are enemies of the u.s.a. furthermore, i don’t believe a word these 2 “hikers” have to say.

Oh really?

pissedoffandbroke 58 minutes ago:

i just hope that not one penny of my taxes went to get these two morons released.  they could have stayed there for eternity as far as i’m concerned.

eyeball roll 2 hours ago:

Have we made another huge mistake?
Like working so hard and spending so much to bring these twoassholes home?
Just askin’

Guest 55 minutes ago in reply to TobyTucker:

I’d prefer they went to the Mexican border versus norht Korea.  
If they go to North Korea, they will be captured and held for ransom, costing tax payer money.
If they go to Mexico, they will just cut their heads off and make ash trays out of their skulls.  …Much easier on my wallet.

Latin2 49 minutes ago:

Only crazy Liberals would hike along the border of Iraq and Iran.

I mean WOW, blah, blah, blah

Lol, you’re right.  They totally got arrested and spent two years in hell on purpose, all so they could make  up some statement made by their “captors.”

Too bad you don’t show this much sympathy on the threads displaying liberal violence and hatred. 

Um, isn’t all outrage selective?   I mean, isn’t that they very nature of anger – that different things anger different people?  

Like you, for instance.  You are outraged not by the unjust political imprisonment for two years of two innocent Americans at the hands of a corrupt, violent government; rather, you are outraged that they would dare to voice an opinion that very well might not even be their own. 

I’m not outraged by them.  They are liberals so I assume they will do idiotic things. 

Lilly, if this is your standard, – “Leave it to Mediaite commenters to profess to love America, but display sheer hatred for Americans. Really, for shame.” Then you have just shut down the entire lefty commenters on this site.

My problem is not so much with ideology…its with stupidity and irresponibility.  And when personal stupidity and irresponsibility put America in a precarious position while costing a ton of money to people other then the offender, I take issue..

Unfortunately unbridled stupity and liberalism tend to be synonomous.

Agreed.  I feel the same way when someone does something very dangerous and others have to risk their lives to save them.  Try thinking of someone else and not just yourself. 

No one else thinks it’s suspect that hikers who were supposedly just hiking on the Iraq/Iran border and supposedly not trying to provoke anyone came home after what was essentially terrorist ransom by proxy and had prepared speeches immediately ready for them?

No numb numb, the building came down because Bush ignored the intelligence that came from him in regards to the attacks.

yo baggers, do you really think these ‘kids’ were just backpacking around iran?  these are the perfect types for the CIA to run a operation…. Oman is a CIA base, and i am sure that these ‘kids’ were DE-briefed, and are still in the CIA….. get real….

It is amazing how you buy into all the propaganda bullshit spewed from the left…serious man, think for yourself and quit repeating your talking points like a good little lemming!!

Liberal idiots like Skyfet think that if we close Gitmo and be nice to radical Islam they will love us and not want to annihilate us….the stupidity of the left is astonishing!!!

After watching this press conference I was baffled.  When were these hikers held at Guantanamo Bay and how can they compare the two?  Why did they come back to the states if it is so bad here?  Why didn’t they go back to Syria since that is was where they were living?  Why did they seem so angry when they were the ones that went hiking in hostile territory?  Will they be hiking along the North Korean border next?  Will they be writing a book and wanting US currency to be paid for this book?  Will they expect to be paid US currency for future interviews?    

Serious man? are you talking about the film ‘A serious man? what exactly are you trying to say?

There is no such thing as radical Islam Dummy. Look it up, its a crappy term coined on the back of ignoramus morons.

Should have paid Iran to keep them. They look like a trio of baby girls. Worthless.

Serious question for you…do you think Warren Buffet pays less taxes than his secretary like Obama has said?
Careful…those are your talking points!! If you agree that the truth is Warren does not pay less taxes you will be admitting that Obama is lying!!!

Oh, baloney.  These kids ignored warnings, escalated already heightened tensions between two governments, and cost the govt millions in ransom and man hours, only to make some false eqivalency of blame between the U.S. and Iran.

Spare me the feigned moral outrage.  It’s a given that people are going to react in a frustrated manner by saying..well, guys, too bad this spiteful govt worked so hard in getting your silly asses back home.

Frankly, it’s not accosting them with a pie in the face or rigging google to pull up porn when a search is done on their names. 

I’m sure there’s some fool somewhere who might do all the above and scream at them in a bar.  Until  then the response here is just words born of the sort of frustration that folks feel when someone with a poor sense of timing and an even poorer sense of grace, spouts off with politics when they should expressing gratitude and praise.

Tell that to the 3,000 who died on 9/11…..Radical Islam is as real as the day is long. Ignorance makes us very vulnerable…even you admitted that!!

I see that you are changing the subjects as you see fit. Can’t you focus or you are losing your bearings?

So what do we blame for the millions of lives lost in Iraq and deformed babies throughout the 90′s? I remember one secretary of state saying the loss of those lives are worth the cause. So tell me do we blame Christianity for that? Or the crusades in the middleeast? which was sanctioned by the Pope? What about the Spanish Inquisition? Oh what about Britain, peopled killed by the IRA? Or Timothy Mcveigh?

You don’t want to go down that road man, its a lost cause.

Didn’t think you would answer that…predictable!!

Also notice you changed the subject off of radical Islam to blame Christianity…..little advice for you…there are extremes in all factions of religion however, radical Christians DO NOT want to cut the heads off of every American!!!! Educate yourself..seriously!!

Didn’t think you would answer that…predictable!!

Also notice you changed the subject off of radical Islam to blame Christianity…..little advice for you…there are extremes in all factions of religion however, radical Christians DO NOT want to cut the heads off of every American!!!! Educate yourself..seriously!!

You are a sucker.

You know this how? Do you need to come out of the closet?

No you POS lib, the Iranian Govt. gave you the opportunity to spread your lib agenda and expose your unbelievable naiveté.

The US is equivalent to Iran? Then go back to Iran.

And the bad relations between Iran and the USA? Yeah, Iran taking US hostages in 1979 had nothing to do with causing the relationship to deteriorate?

MG- you libs are so ignorant.

“striped of their rights and freedoms”  you entered their country uninvited, at that point you have NO rights or freedoms. you were hiking on the iraq/iran border, how stupid do you have to be

Gitmo is heaven compared to normal US prisons.

MG are you ignorant!

Ahhh! are you a regular visitor (i.e a convict)? Enlighten us.

Really? And just what did that intel have? When the attack would occur? NO

Where the attack would happen?? NO
How the attack would happen? NO

Ya that sure was a really helpful intel, child!

LOL

You must be kidding me, are you that ignorant of the basic facts. My God, this is embarrassing. Why don’t you do some research before embarrassing yourself. Specific intelligence that states high buildings are target were passed on.

Wow- you just made that up didn’t ya?

Isn’t it amazing the libs think they can just enter  into another country illegally without any consequences. What country did they think they were illegally entering? The USA?

Wow….well put Cecelia.

I just saw these characters at a presser. They’ll find themselves somewhere stupid again.

Did you actually read the intel report that you are refferring to?  By the idiocy of you comment, I’m guessing you didnt.  I recommend you do though (its publically accessable), to save yourself future embarrassment.  It’s Ironic that you are making the acusations of stupidity when the gist of Stonpark’s comments are correct.

lillyluminatus,

The point is they were irresponsible, naive and stupid.  And frankly they diverted time, energy and resoucres of the federal government for two years,because of this.

Its one thing if your a diplomat or tourist in a stable country that is suddenly overturned, and you are held hostage because of it.  i.e Iran in 1979.

Its something completely different to make a concious descision to go hiking….HIKING…in the northern Iraq, on the Iranian border during a full scale war that your country is involved it. 

Hey, uhhh, Stonepark–it would behoove you to tell the whole story.

Iranian rebels took US hostages in response to the US deposing their democratically elected shah, and giving them 30 years of a brutal dictatorship.

I’m not a lib either, so calling me a name won’t do you any good.

There is that “Victim” term again.

A victim is a person walking to their car or sitting in their house getting robbed then shot.  That is a victim.

Traveling to a War zone to go Hiking, then getting subsequently captured because of a blatantly horrible descision on your part is not being a “Victim” it is proving Darwin’s law.

And then when the meet the inevitable consequences of their poor descisions, they idignantly wait for the government to bail them out, then talk smack about the government after they get bailed out.

And then when the meet the inevitable consequences of their poor descisions, they idignantly wait for the government to bail them out, then talk smack about the government after they get bailed out.

The stupidity of thinking that we’ll be able to stop “radicalism” by imprisoning and torturing teenage Muslims…well, that’s astonishing too.

What if the Chinese invaded the US and had a secret prison in Canada where they took your kidnapped son and tortured him? Would that make you more or less likely to kill Chinese soldiers and/or civilians? Or would you just leave your son there to rot?

I am honestly quite flummoxed.  Are you honestly defending the actions of Iran in this equation?!

I’m pretty sure they have more than expressed their gratitude and praise; this was merely one comment that Mediaite highlighted from a much longer press conference.

I really am quite flummoxed here.  If these guys are so wrong and blameworthy, then who is right in this situation – Iran?! 

Oh give it a rest.  

Did they take a risk?  Without a doubt.  Did they in any way intend to get arrested and spend two years of their lives in a hellhole?  Quite obviously not.

Did THEY actually compare the conditions, or did they simply relay what they were told when they complained about the conditions?  I’m honestly asking.

I mean, I understand that it sucks when everything that the other side has been saying – i.e. that Gitmo is a huge propaganda victory for our enemies – turns out to be correct, but is that reason to project its use onto the Americans who were simply repeating what they were told?

Made what up?

I guess I’ve never seen so many people come to the defense of a rogue, dictatorial regime like Iran, at the expense of the Americans Iran victimized.

It does not follow that by arguing that these kids are accountable for their actions and their words, Iran’s treachery is negated or absolved.

Even these kids were able to distinguish THAT in their statement that as spiteful as things are between the two countries, this in no way excused Iran’s actions.

Perhaps they could made such a commonsensical distinction in THIS instance, because they sat in an Iranian jail for two years…

Where these clowns attending UC Berkley?! I wonder if these dupes will pay Oman back for putting up the money to get them released? After hearing their rant, it’s too bad they paid it!

Didn’t you do that with your little diatribe about deformed baby’s, the Crusades, and going down some road you live on in Never Never land?

These clowns held those attitudes long before Iran captured their dumb asses!

What would the Iranian guards know about Gitmo? Not a damned thing, that’s what.

Do you take responsibility for this ad hominem, or are you just a jackass?

You are truly unable to reason aren’t you? Bush had nothing to do with 9/11, but dim bulbs like you always come to the same incorrect conclusion. The level of your lack of understanding on this subject is truly astonishing.

The more you speak the stupider you get.

Another 9/11 truther. Everyone knows that a new President isn’t responsible for anything until he’s been in office for at least 3 years. A liberal keeps telling me that so it must be true.

“TMP”

Well Einstein, specific intelligence means specified targets would be listed, not a blanket statement like “high buildings”. That is not specific enough to indicate what the target is, and that being the case is useless information. You are not very good at this, maybe Sudoku is more your thing.

Damn! That is even less intelligent than anything you have posted thus far.

Oh, you mean like this?

“So what do we blame for the millions of lives lost in Iraq and deformed
babies throughout the 90′s? I remember one secretary of state saying the
loss of those lives are worth the cause. So tell me do we blame
Christianity for that? Or the crusades in the middleeast? which was
sanctioned by the Pope? What about the Spanish Inquisition? Oh what
about Britain, peopled killed by the IRA? Or Timothy Mcveigh?

You don’t want to go down that road man, its a lost cause.”

Looks like you have mastered the art of liberal tangential reasoning.

Oh, you mean like this?

“So what do we blame for the millions of lives lost in Iraq and deformed
babies throughout the 90′s? I remember one secretary of state saying the
loss of those lives are worth the cause. So tell me do we blame
Christianity for that? Or the crusades in the middleeast? which was
sanctioned by the Pope? What about the Spanish Inquisition? Oh what
about Britain, peopled killed by the IRA? Or Timothy Mcveigh?

You don’t want to go down that road man, its a lost cause.”

Looks like you have mastered the art of liberal tangential reasoning.

Another idiot with the undeniable truth from Media Matters.

They never cease to end.

“TMP”

Another idiot with the undeniable truth from Media Matters.

They never cease to end.

“TMP”

We can hear that giant sucking sound coming from your posts.

You forgot the Hawaiian natives and Captain Cook. ; )

“TMP”

They didn’t deserve to be rescued. They should be grateful to the US for expending the effort and ransom to get them back and they should have their passports revoked for life. That way we don’t have to go and get them out of trouble again, especially to visit with Chavez who is no friend of America or Americans.

I like their “I was just taking a walk in the hills of Iraq and I wasn’t doing anything” nonsense. Everyone takes a walk on the Iraq/Iran border just for kicks.

They fulfilled their excitement quota for a couple of days, next North Korea for Current.

“TMP”

If they do, let North Korea keep them.

Why did skyfet leave out the aliens at area 51 and the ark of the covenant? Just getting sloppy I guess…

Yeah, what happened to the 3 year rule???

They speak Farsi in Iran…

Who came up with the $1 million ransom, um, bail that was paid to free them? U.S. taxpayers? If so, after that crack about Gitmo I want my share of the money back.