Not Forgotten… John McCain Remembers Neda at RNC
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 11:00 PM
On June 20, 2009, a beautiful young woman who was standing with her father watching the Green Revolution protests in Iran was shot by a basiji member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. The regime thug had a clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. The impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes. The protests were going on about 1 kilometer away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi Street. The film was shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Please let the world know.
Her name was Neda.
Tonight John McCain remembered Neda in his speech at the RNC Convention.
From John McCain’s speech:
“But most of all, we can’t afford to abandon the cause of human freedom. When long-suffering peoples demand liberation from their jailers and torturers and tyrants, the leader of the free world must stand with them.
Unfortunately, this is not happening.When Iranians rose up by the millions against their oppressive rulers, when they beseeched our president, chanting in English, “Are you with us, or are you with them?”, when the entire world watched as a brave young woman named Neda was shot and bled to death in a street in Tehran.
The president missed a historic opportunity to throw America’s full moral support behind an Iranian revolution that shared one of our highest interests: ridding Iran of a brutal dictatorship that terrorizes the Middle East and threatens the world.
The situation is far worse in Syria. What began as peaceful protests has now become, 18 months later, a savage and unfair fight.
With the full backing of Iran, and Hezbollah, and Russia-with tanks, and helicopters, and fighter jets, Bashir Assad is murdering men, women and children”
Hat Tip Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi
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Simsalabim commented:
Romney is such a piece of crap. The only reason, and I mean the only reason he is getting my vote is because Obama is an even bigger piece of crap.
Romney makes McCain look great and I couldn’t stand that POS RINO.
Our choice: the Mystic Moron Mormon or the Incompetent Muslim.
maria commented:
Since that next day I carry a picture of this lady in my wallet as support for FREEDOM
Mo commented:
This is when EVERYONE should have picked up that Obama didn’t care about freedom, when he abandoned Neda and the other protestors. I remember reading what Natan Sharansky, imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag as a “refusenik” wrote about Ronald Reagan. Sharansky said that the prisoners would tap out or find other ways to communicate, and one of the biggest things that kept them going through the deprivation and torture of their imprisonments was that Reagan was speaking out against the Soviet leadership and FOR the refuseniks.
I related this story to others when they would ask “But what could Obama do?”, about the Iranian protestors. ANY positive words of encouragement, and not coming weeks into the protests, would have helped. But Obama did NOTHING.
I am still steamed at McCain for not running a campaign as he should have against Obama…and McCain was, is, a terribly flawed politician. But to bring up Neda shows that inside of him, he still is a fundamentally decent man. Obama? His only value is…Obama. He certainly is no friend of freedom and liberty. (I”m also not sure that those opposing Assad are such friends-of-freedom, either, but it IS true that Assad is a murderer on a rather large scale, just like his father was. But I believe McCain’s heart is in the right place, even if his head isn’t always screwed on correctly!).
maria commented:
@ #1 August 29, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Simsalabim commented:
What do you know about Romney to judge like this…?
Limousine Barry commented:
Let me be clear, I have muck-up the Middle East. I have stabbed America’s allies in the back. And, I don’t care!
I don’t have time to remember people! I have a campaign to run! And, Davy Axelrod is running it into the ground. My campaign is almost as mucked-up as the Middle East! Gad, it stinks!
I don’t even know this Neda girl! She doesn’t have dark enough skin. I can’t user her in my campaign ads! Besides, I am not for free speech… I am trying to shut it down!
My sleazy campaign is entirely focused on fear, smear, and racism. That’s how I run a campaign! Good day.
Opaobie commented:
#3 Mo, don’t forget that Obama refused to even condemn the Iranian regime, let alone encourage or even provide assistance to the resistance when they had a legitimate chance to overthrow the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad. Obama went overboard to help the Islamic fundamentalists…you, know, TERRORISTS…overthrow regimes friendly to the West, but when he had a chance to help the Iranians overthrow Ahm-in-a-Jihad, he “recognized” the “election process” as “legitimate” and chose “not to meddle in Iran’s internal affairs”….wink, wink, nod, nod, Achmed.
GotFreedom commented:
“John McCain remembers Neda at RNC”. . .surprised this old fool can remember anything at all! He is irrelevant. . .his time has come and gone and we don’t understand why the good people of AZ keep re-electing him. . .if you look up the definition of RINO in the dictionary, you’ll see his picture!
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Romney makes McCain look great and I couldn’t stand that POS RINO.
In my own opinion, nothing will make McCain look great.
He has even managed to use up all the honor and respect he received due to his sacrifice in Vietnam.
Ghost commented:
Never forget how The Left covered up for Stalin in the 1930s.
Never forget how The Left stabbed our SE Asian allies and co-workers in the back in 1975.
Never forget how The Left let the United Nations lead in Rwanda in the 1990s, and the worst happened. The Worst!
Honest to God, do homework on these, it is utterly shameful and a stain on America as bad as slavery. think I’m exaggerating? okay, do the research.
That the Marxist/Muslim Usurper stood by while Freedom Fighters died like this in Iran is shocking for its sadness and tragedy- but not surprising.
The story that #3/Mo refers to about Reagan and the Soviet dissidents deserves further reading to understand how America’s Greatness must be used. and, don’t pass by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn when you see that name.
Every Good American should know this stuff. These bullets bury liberals, because it hits them where it hurts the most, their oh-so-noble feelings.
compare to JFK’s inaugural address
Ghost commented:
#8, #9
I’m happy that history will remember Yosemite Sam ONLY as the guy who lost to the Marxist/Muslim/Usurper when he had every advantage including Palin- whom he only picked for political advantage.
All he had to do was take the gun out of his holster, but the ‘hero’ turned into a putz.
think I’m exaggerating on history’s epitaph? consider the less-than-great Presidents and the men who lost their bid. many had tremendously full lives which is how they got the nomination and some even got the Prize. and how much do you know about them?
examples: James A. Garfield was staggeringly accomplished! as was Charles Evans Hughes. But, the name McCain will be forever remembered as LOSER! like Alf Landon.
#6 Limousine Barry – you got the best schtick
American Woman commented:
Our government is infiltrated with Islamic Fascists just as Bachmann warned. Hillary Clinton’s aide (MRS Weiner) is only the tip of the problem.
Yes, Obama is responsible for deaths in Kenya. Yes, as a US Senator, he worked for Shariah Law to be established in that once democratic country.
Christians are murdered in Kenya daily, thanks to Barack Obama. Read it here: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/kenya-muslims-torch-two-churches-christians-sue-government-for-not-protecting-them.html
Yes, as POTUS, Obama has spread Islamic Fascism throughout the Middle East.
Egypt, Tunisia, Libya are under terrorist-control, because of Barack Hussein Obama’s intervention. The only democracy existing there is Israel. (Does anyone really believe Obama’s policies benefit Israel in any way?)
Yes, Obama has allowed the Islamic Fascists to run the UN. They come from Fascist hellholes, but he thinks they should call the shots for the rest of the world.
What kind of man would do these things? (Someone who should not even be considered for POTUS.)
He was a mistake; he is a mistake. His ideology makes it impossible for him to change. He will always be a mistake.
Show him the door or begin treason proceedings. We cannot afford 4 more years of his purposeful dismantling of our economy and weakening of our collective psyche.
Bustr commented:
Somehow, I think if McCain had been president, that opportunity to change Iran wouldn’t have been lost.
Chris W. commented:
NO WAR IN SYRIA.
mg4us commented:
McCain needs to let Americans know that elections HAVE consequences. . . like Neda
He should have said: So what is Obama’s Compass?
Go see 2016:Obama’s America thendecide for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6QOscKvUjU
nadadhimmi commented:
RE#7. you’re correct. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER forget that Obama supported the mullah’s in Iran. Obama always support’s islamic fundamentalists. Neda was Iran’s Kent State and Obama supported the regime. That was the turning point, if Obama had supported the Students, Iran would be free now and the muslim brotherhood would not be in power everywhere in the mid east; they are in power now because Obama and Clinton WANT them in power.
Mn Jim commented:
I am not sure if obama is a blithering idiot, or if he is a cunning, calculated traitor to the US and freedom around the world. He certainly has an Islamist background, which the media has ignored and even mocked anyone who questions it. In a real world, obama, Clinton and Humma Weiner wouldn’t be able to get clearance to run a lemonaid stand near the White House. But this is Bizarro World, and the Republican leadership in Congress is doing nothing to stop it.
Adirondack Patriot commented:
Shooting innocent women in Iran? No problem.
Pissing on dead Taliban? Islamic outrage!!!!!!
Yeah, we need to be more tolerant of shariah law, and CAIR and all those forward-thinking Islamic chaps.
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