Refuting Paul Sheldon Foote

Paul Sheldon Foote titled one of his posts as “the Conservative Voice promotes Communist terrorists.” He’s talking about MEK [Mujahideen-e-Kalq], which I thank for cutting and pasting my article “Take for MEK and NCRI off Terror list.” Paul cites my article “Take for MEK and NCRI off Terror list.” First off, I’m anti-Communist [though even more anti-Islamists, though not anti-Islamic]. Anyone who reads my articles on Latin America knows that I’m no supporter of Communist terrorism. I publicly oppose the Castro brothers and refute the claim that Allende was an innocent democrat. I’m battling the victorious Communist propaganda on Latin America [see here, here,here, here and for my critique of liberals including their positions on Latin America, go here]. It was the Conservative Voice that published my articles attacking the victorious Communist propaganda on Latin America.

There was a radical element in MEK, which, overtime, ceased to exist. The MEK was founded as an opposition group to the Shah and was expelled by the mullahs after the 1979 Iranian revolution.

The Iranian Communists are Tudeh, not MEK. I don’t agree with MEK on everything. However, it seeks to free and democratize Iran.

MEK became the main group in NCRI, which was founded in 1981 as the Parliament in exile and as another group that seeks to free and democratize Iran.

If Paul really opposes Communist terrorism, why doesn’t he stand in support of the caracas nine, nine victims of Chavez’s government, condemn FARC and join me in fighting the victorious Communist propaganda on Latin America. Paul should know that Iran is making an anti-American alliance with four Latin american communist dictatorships, the Castro brothers, Chavez government, the Sandinistas and the Evo Morales government.

Radical Islam is far worse than Communism. Though Communism is a totalitarian ideology, at least the Communists don’t promote martyrdom or think they’re fighting for Allah. Radical Islam is willing to sacrifice Muslims to achieve their global goals. Iran is making nuclear weapons to fight America and Israel and to help them export radical Islamic rule to the world.

A chilling book based on Ali Khamenei’s beliefs call for radical Islam to conquer the world and for jihad on infidels. It promotes martyrdom. It’s called “Al-Jihad.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, also said that the Iranian revolution is “global” and that Islam will ”conquer the mountain tops of the world” He believes that if he starts another world war, he would bring out the twelth imam once radical Islam was imposed on the world. He seeks to bring out the 12th imam.

Iran sponsors demonstrations that say,”Death to America,” and “Death to Israel.”

Mohammed Khatami, the guy who the Clinton administration admitted that they put MEK on the US State department of Foreign terrorist organizations for, calls for the destruction of Israel and publicly supports Hezbollah. He was one Khomenei’s followers. He, like Hishemi Rafsanjani, gets the praise as a moderate, but isn’t moderate at all. Rafsanjani said that it’s not irrational to contemplate a nuclear attack on Israel.

Paul Foote said,”As a lifelong registered Republican and as a former elected Los Angeles County Republican county central committee member, I would never vote for Nathan Tabor or for anyone else affiliated with The Conservative Voice.”

Yet Paul is a member of the Conservative Voice. He commented on the comment section of my article on the MEK and NCRI and even pasted the post I’m refuting in the comment section of my article. He’s just as much a member as I am. Yet he can’t take an article commending MEK for fighting to free Iran.

He even commented his article on that comment.

He claims he won’t vote for anyone associated with the Conservative Voice “as a lifelong Republican.” Here, he’s also a member of the Conservative Voice. He also said:

This article is not the first time that Zucker has questioned my conservative credentials without establishing his own conservative credentials. Please see Zucker’s comment and my reply at The Conservative Voice.

See, he claims he won’t vote for anyone associated with the Conservative Voice because of one article [my article] arguing for taking MEK off the US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and for supporting the MEK against the terrorist reigme in Iran. Paul said:

While the American government has closed the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Washington, DC, the American government has not closed the operations of other supporters of America’s terrorist enemies.Many of the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) have been strong supporters of the Rajavi Cult. See, for example, the Web site of the Iran Policy Committee.

First off, we neo-conservatives are anti-Communist. So we neo-conservatives are not neo-Trotskyites. We attack the Communist regime in Cuba and expose Communist bloodshed on Latin America. It’s so funny that he doesn’t attack real Communist terrorists. Yet he’s helping the terrorist regime in Iran spread disinformation against MEK freedom fighters. Neo-conservaitve is used as an insult, even though it’s a good thing to be one. It’s used as an insult against people who expose America’s and Israel’s totalitarian enemies including radical Islam as a way to not argue with someone. I will not discuss weather MEK is a cult or not.

Paul is joining in, even calling neo-conservatives “neo-trotskyists.”

I consider myself a Republican. Paul claims that he’s a “lifelong Republican.” Like Ron Paul, he joins much of the political left in defending our totalitarian enemies. Paul Foote is helping Iran spread misinformation against MEK and doesn’t speak out against the terrorism of the Iranian regime. The 9/11 commission report even documented the ties between Al Quada and Iran. The 9/11 commission report said:

In June 1996, an enormous truck bomb detonated in the Khobar Towers
residential complex in Dhahran,Saudi Arabia,that housed U.S.Air Force per
sonnel.Nineteen Americans were killed,and 372 were wounded.The opera
tion was carried out principally, perhaps exclusively, by Saudi Hezbollah, an
organization that had received support from the government of Iran.While the
evidence of Iranian involvement is strong, there are also signs that al Qaeda
played some role, as yet unknown. [page 60].

The 9/11 commission report also said:

In late 1991 or 1992, discussions in Sudan
between al Qaeda and Iranian operatives led to an informal agreement to coop
erate in providing support—even if only training—for actions carried out pri
marily against Israel and the United States.Not long afterward, senior al Qaeda
operatives and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives. In the
fall of 1993,another such delegation went to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon for
further training in explosives as well as in intelligence and security. Bin Ladin
reportedly showed particular interest in learning how to use truck bombs such
as the one that had killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983.The relation-
ship between al Qaeda and Iran demonstrated that Sunni-Shia divisions did not
necessarily pose an insurmountable barrier to cooperation in terrorist opera
tions.As will be described in chapter 7,al Qaeda contacts with Iran continued
in ensuing years. [page 61]

There is also documentation of cooperation between Al Quada and Hezbollah, who even the fake moderate Khatami supports. The 9/11 commission report said:

Al Qaeda had begun developing the tactical expertise for such attacks months
earlier,when some of its operatives—top military committee members and sev
eral operatives who were involved with the Kenya cell among them—were sent
to Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon. [page 68]

Yet Paul is too busy speaking up against MEK. When it comes to MEK, he suddenly opposes Communist terrorism, while he doesn’t speak up against real Communist terrorism anywhere else. He doesn’t speak up against Tudeh, the Iranian Communist party. But he speaks up against MEK, which is not actually Communist.Paul shows a picture of MEK leader Massoud Rajavi’s meeting with Saddam. It should be noted that I fiercely oppose what Saddam did. He was a mass-murderer who had elements of Nazism. Saddam was one of America’s and Israel’s totalitarian enemies. When I talk about the Nazism in Islamism [including the terrorist regime in Iran] and the Arab nationalists, I cite the documentary “Saddam and the Third Reich,” which shows the Nazi influence in the Baath party. I said:

The History Channel documentary Saddam and the Third Reich actually documents how the Arab nationalists supported Hitler, and based on facts, brought out parallels between Saddam’s Iraq and Nazi Germany.

I also defended the Iraqi government’s right to execute Saddam in my article “Liberal’s blind hatred of Bush.” I said:

Liberals, while silent about Saddam’s killings and him torturing of thousands of Iraqi people, who had no tribunals or lawyers, complain that Saddam got an unfair trial and complain about his execution. There is too much proof that Saddam was guilty and no evidence that he was innocent.
They would prefer that he was tried in a European country or even on the Hague. But do you know what? Saddam committed his crimes in Iraq. So his own country should try him and give him whatever punishment they want weather it’s execution or imprisonment.

The Israelis were also right to attack Saddam’s nuclear weapons facility in Osirak in 1981. Though Saddam was a dangerous dictator, Iran was a bigger threat. Saddam also gave support to Palestinian terrorist groups such as the PLF [Palestine Liberation Front] and the Abu Nidal group. During the oil and food program, which allowed him to sell oil to feed his people, he used the oil for food program to support the PFLP[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine].Saddam also gave money to families of suicide bombers because their family members committed suicide terrorist attack on innocent civilians inside Israel.Saddam did not give support to the MEK. The MEK did not support Saddam. But they saw Iran as even worse than Saddam. In fact, the US had the same position in the 1980’s and even supported Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. There is also a video of US then envoy Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam.It was France, one of our allies [not MEK], that almost gave Saddam a nuclear bomb, even while he was using chemical wepaons on his genocide on the Kurds, his attacks on Shiites and on his war with Iran. Thank goodness, the Israelis bombed it. Virtually all of the European countries and all Arab states supported Iraq against Iran. The Soviet Union, not MEK, gave Saddam the most support.Saddam is gone. The insurgents, who are fighting America in Iraq, are composed of Saddam’s supporters and radical Islamists. The MEK is one of the groups not fighting America in Iraq. In the beginning of the Iraq war, the US engaged in a bombing campaign against MEK to mainly appease Iran. Saddam let them have a presence in Iraq, but provided no support to the MEK.The US put them on the terror list to appease Iran. Another terrorist attack by Iran is the terrorist attack in 1994 on the Jewish community center in Argentina. That Jewish center was the AMIA [Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina].Hezbollah deputy Naim Qassem said that Hezbollah doesn’t commit terrorist attacks without approval from Iran.The MEK is a reformed pro-American and pro-Israel organization. It was the NRCI and its main group MEK that exposed Iran’s nuclear weapon program in 2002. MEK also favors women’s rights, while in Iran, the terrorist regime treats women and non-Muslims are second-class citizens. MEK also favors equal rights for Muslims and non-Muslims. In Iran, since the 1979 revolution, women were forced to wear the veil. Every country opposes Iran’s nuclear weapon program except for Syria, Venezuela and Cuba, at least two [Venezuela and Cuba] of which are Communist countries. Chavez’s Venezuela supports the Colombian terrorist group Farc, which seeks to replace the Colombian democracy with a brutal Communist dictatorship. We, right-wing Conservative Republicans have an obligation to expose America’s and Israel’s totalitarian enemies and expose their totalitarian goals and also refute the left’s defense [or whitewash] of America’s and Israel’s totalitarian enemies. Saddam was one of our totalitarian enemies that liberals whitewashed.I finished refuting Paul, who only ”opposes” Communist terrorism when criticizing MEK, which is not a Communist group, but a pro-Israel and pro-American democratic group that seeks to free and democratize Iran.