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Your hero Reagan was called the Great Communicator, whereas Romney should be called the Great Obfuscater.
Does Romney Know Where Iran and Syria Are?
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Your hero Reagan was called the Great Communicator, whereas Romney should be called the Great Obfuscater.
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The Almighty
My hero??? Um, ok. Romney is most certainly not anywhere near the league of Reagan or Clinton in terms of communication. I am fairly certain I have never come close to suggesting that he was.
No, I said that there are plans to extend it though Lebanon to the sea, but the deal you're talking about has the pipeline ending at Damascus.
It isn't plausible. It's quite the opposite.
There are all sorts of ways that Romney could have described the relationship between Iran and Syria that make sense. Saying that Syria is Iran's "route to the sea" is just a really weird thing to say regardless of what his intended meaning was.
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Said but true I bet.
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The Almighty
Again you are playing semantics. The plan is to continue the pipeline on to the Med Sea. The point was to link Iran to Syria and show why it was vital to the distribution plans of Iran. Yet you want to play word games.
You are a fucking idiot if you think it is not plausible. The plans already friggin exist. It is a reality. You yourself have stated it is a reality. The only thing we don't know for certain is Romney was referring to the pipeline when he stated 'route to the sea'. The pipeline is most certainly a plausible explanation and a far more plausible one that your 'he don't know where Iran and Syria are at'
Unless he was actually referring to it being their only viable route to the Med Sea. Stating that would emphasize what the fall of Assad might mean to Iran's distribution plans. The really weird thing to say is 'Romney don't know where Syria and Iran are at'
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Iranian naval ships dock in Syria
Two Iranian naval ships have docked at the Syrian port of Tartous, Iran's state-run Press TV reported on Monday, in a development likely to raise concern in the West.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...092853/Iranian-naval-ships-dock-in-Syria.html
perhaps he was referring to the above
Two Iranian naval ships have docked at the Syrian port of Tartous, Iran's state-run Press TV reported on Monday, in a development likely to raise concern in the West.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...092853/Iranian-naval-ships-dock-in-Syria.html
perhaps he was referring to the above
Now explain why he called Syria Iran's "route to the sea" on several prior occasions.
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The Almighty
You just stick to your 'he don't know where Iran and Syria are' explanation Polly. We know now that you are going to refuse to acknowledge anything else.
For the record, I didn't say that he doesn't know where they are. I posed a question and said that what Romney said was strange, which it was.
Maybe he does know where they are in relation to one another. I don't know. What I do know is that saying that Syria is Iran's "route to the sea" is a weird thing to say based on the common understanding of what "route to the sea" means.
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cite where he said it prior to the above and cite that no other iranian ship ever docked in syria.
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you haven't said he doesn't know where they are? yet, you called him a dumbass and your entire point for making this thread is to prove his statement is wrong and that he doesn't know where they are.
(1) He said it in an MSNBC interview in December 2011:
http://info.msnbc.com/_news/2011/12/21/9610332-transcript-gov-mitt-romney-on-the-daily-rundown
(2) LOLers. So "route to the sea" means that Syria allows Iranian ships -- which are already at sea -- dock in Syrian ports. That's awesome.
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The Almighty
You implied it in the thread title. Pretending you were asking an innocent question is quite sad.
It was not weird at all... you just continue to ignore everything that has been presented that shows a viable explanation. You then play word games to try and spin your way out of the hole you are in.
You just stick to 'he don't know where Iran and Syria at' line there like a good little parrot... Polly gettin a cracker today.
No, my point in this thread is not that Romney affirmatively does not know where the two countries are in relation to one another but that his statement raises questions about his understanding of Middle East geography.
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The Almighty
except that it does not raise questions about his knowledge of the geography. That is simply the foolish little 'explanation' you have concocted.
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so yes, you are in fact saying he doesn't know where they are. why even bother trying to pass off such lame spin?
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actually, if you read the full quote in context...it makes perfect sense
But Syria is very different than Libya. It is the only key ally for Iran, its route to the sea. A key satellite to Iran.
I'm not saying he doesn't know where they are. I'm saying he might not based on his comments. There's a difference.
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right...that is why you mock any attempt to give you an explanation of what he might have meant.
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The Almighty
LMAO... keep spinning Polly... we are all putting forth potential explanations for his comments and as stated, yours continues to be 'he don't know where Iran and syria are at'