Freed Americans Bash America, Sympathize With Their Captors

You may think that having been locked in an Iranian prison would have caused these punks to do some introspection and come to realize that they have been supporting the wrong side. But instead their hatred of America and Israel and sympathy for the jihadist annihilationists is unwavering. According to Bauer and Fattal, the jihadists being held at Gitmo is morally equivalent to their own imprisonment. And also according to them, its not the terror regime in Tehran routinely vowing another Jewish genocide that is the problem, it is American policies toward Iran. What policy are they talking about exactly, the policy of maintaining passivity in the face of the growing Iranian nuclear threat and the direct Iranian involvement of the killing of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? This is why I did not feel the least bit of empathy toward them.

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In prison, every time we complained about our conditions, the guards would immediately remind us of comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay. They would remind of us CIA prisons in other parts of the world, and the conditions that Iranians and others experience in prisons in the U.S. We do not believe that such human rights violations on the part of our government justify what has been done to us. Not for a moment. However, we do believe that these actions on the part of the U.S. provide an excuse for other governments, including the government of Iran, to act in kind. . . .

Sarah, Josh and I oppose U.S. policies towards Iran which perpetuate this hostility. Sarah, Josh and I oppose U.S. policies towards Iran which perpetuate this hostility. . . .

We also want to express our great thanks to the many world leaders and individuals who championed our cause. They include the U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon, President Jalal Talabani of Iraq and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the governments of Turkey and Brazil. They were certain of our innocence and their certainty made a difference.

They include the actor Sean Penn, the great Muhammad Ali, Noam Chomsky, the singer Yusuf Islam, Cindy Sheehan and the Nobel Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mairead Maguire. We will always remember that you stood by us. . . .

The sympathy and support of many Muslim and other religious leaders in America, the Iranian people and the elements within the Iranian government that worked for our freedom were also all invaluable. Thank you.