Rick Perry Doubles Down on His Statement on Turkey Being Run by Islamic Terrorists
Rick Perry decided to double down on his previous statement that Turkey "is being ruled by, what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists." When asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer if he stood by his remarks, Perry said yes and used honor killings to justify his remarks.
BLITZER: You caused a stir at the debate last night when you spoke about Turkey. And I'll play the clip for those who did not hear what you said about Turkey. Listen to this.
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PERRY: Well, obviously when you have a country that is being ruled by what many would perceived to be Islamic terrorists, when you start seeing that type of activity against their own citizens, then, yes, not only is it time for us to have a conversation about whether or not they belong in NATO, but it's time for the United States, when we look at their foreign aid, to go to zero with it.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BLITZER: All right. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement today. In part -- I'll read it to you -- they said, "Turkey became a member of NATO when the governor was just 2 years old. Turkey has been among the front line countries in the fight against terrorism. The United States has no time to lose with such candidates who do not even know America's allies."
Did you misspeak last night? Are you ready to revise your comments?
PERRY: Not at all. A country that allowed 140 to 160 honor killings in 2011, I will tell you that is not a country that America wants to be associating with. A country that referred to the Israel flotilla attack as an act of war, I mean, this is a country that's becoming more and more aggressive to a true American ally in that area, and that is Israel.
So the idea that Erdogan's regime has somehow or another earned our respect is not correct. And I think -- you know, my wife works for the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault. And it's these types of activities, particularly against women, that is from -- I lived in Turkey in the '70s. I visited there in the '80s, and again back in the 2000s. So the idea this country has moved from its pro-Western stance that (INAUDIBLE) into today, where, you know, I will tell you, I don't think Americans want their foreign aid going to a country that allows for honor killings of women. And that is a real issue that we need to deal with as the United States and our foreign aid.
From my perspective, Turkey hasn't earned our trust when they're doing that to their own citizens.
BLITZER: But the U.S. barely provides any military or economic assistance to Turkey right now. Their economy is pretty good. But on this specific issue of Erdogan and the other Turkish leaders right now, you say they are, in your words, Islamic terrorists? Are you really saying that?
PERRY: I said that if they are treating their citizens that way, that they approach that terminology. I mean, when you allow for honor killings, Wolf -- I mean, I hope you're not defending honor killings as an appropriate act in any country, much less a country that we send foreign aid to. And we do send foreign aid to that country. I think some $4 billion. That's not just a drop in the bucket.
BLITZER: Four billion dollars in this fiscal year? Is that what you're saying?
PERRY: No, $4 billion in the last few years, and I think $7 billion on the military side of things. But the fact is, if we send any money to a country -- Wolf, let me ask you, are you sitting here and defending the act of honor killing?
BLITZER: No, of course I'm not. That's horrible and disgusting, and people who do that should be punished.
PERRY: Absolutely. And that's the point.
BLITZER: But I believe the Turkish government isn't defending it, either. It happens in Turkey, it happens in Egypt, it happens in a lot of Islamic countries, but they're not supporting that. No one defends that except for Islamic extremists.
PERRY: And that is the reason -- that is the reason that I've called for going to zero on this foreign aid to these countries that -- you know, the idea that we've got U.S. dollars going into countries that allow these types of atrocities to occur -- and it's my understanding as well that women who go to the state for protection are not getting those protections. So this is a country that's got some explaining to do to the United States.
BLITZER: So you would want to see Turkey no longer a member of NATO? Is that what you're saying?
PERRY: I think we need the conversation with them.
Listen, if they want to be our ally -- I will tell you, myself, and I think a lot of Americans, as we look at countries like Pakistan, like Turkey, that, on one hand, they want to send us the money, we want your money, but then their activities are either anti-American or they're committing atrocities against their own people, I mean, is that the kind of people we want to be siding with? I mean, I understand it's a complicated world out there, but to sit back and to accept these things, Americans are ready for some strong language and some strong actions.
This president that we've got today has such a muddled foreign policy. I think one of the reasons you see the Middle East in such an uproar is because America is not injecting itself, and we're not putting our interests and, for that matter, the interests of American people into these countries.
So, I don't have a problem at all with what I said. And I think Turkey has got to decide whether they want to be a country that projects those Western values that America is all about.
Turkey is an important strategic ally. He sounds more like Ron Paul, which isn't necessarily a bad thing here. But you can't be the national security candidate if you would no longer associate with Turkey.
And its amazing how he flips it into an issue about Pakistan. Just amazing.
Give him a few more minutes and he'll toss Iraq, Iran, and Syria in as well. Ya know, they all just sort of Mooslimy, brown-skinned, and none have a good Texas-style pulled pork barbeque...
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I don't know what part of Texas you're getting your 'que from, but pig don't belong on the smoker. In Texas, it's all about the brisket.
Once again:
The Turkish CIVILIANS on the flotilla, delivering FOOD to an impoverished nation were killed by Israel's MILITARY. The civilians were killed by military.
And yet, in this case, the killed civilians were the terrorists as well. People from that part of the world just cannot win. Even when killed doing humanitarian efforts, they're STILL terrorists.
Lemme be clear. The government of Turkey is extremely conservative and religiously fundamentalist, and some parts of their country are backwards and still practice cruel traditions (not associated with the government). Being slightly anti-Israel does not make a government "terrorists", though.
Well, there was that time that Turkey blew up the Red Cross truck carrying medical supplies.
..Oh wait, no, that was Israel.
... of people in the minority population? Oh wait, nevermind, that is Isreal too.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
~Lenny Bruce~
Perry is clearly high on the pro-Israel kool aid if he thinks it is at all feasible to suggest that civilians carrying humanitarian aid being murdered by armed soldiers in international waters was anything other than an act of war.
I actually feel somewhat sorry for the Republican voters because clearly the candidates are not taking this seriously and think anyone who is left to vote for the party is an absolute idiot or a sociopath. You can't have any respect for the people you're asking to vote for you if you stand there and play talking point bingo, trying to hit every high note for the slavering masses, and wind up saying such stupid things as "anyone who thinks shooting civilians in international waters while they are carrying aid is an act of war is obviously a terrorist... as long as Israel did it". Utterly disgusting.
Any reasonable Israeli citizen must feel pretty ill regarding what their government is doing in their name as well.
Is this clown for real ? Elected to how many terms as Texas governor ? Wow !
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
~Lenny Bruce~
I miss old Fred . LOL
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
With 30% of the vote. He's the Romney of Texas.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Foreign military aid is never beneficial to the country receiving the "aid". It is corporate welfare for America's military industrial complex.
... THIS is what is CONSIDERED to be Comander in Chief ???????? What an EMBARRASSMENT, what a Fncking EMBARRASSMENT ! They what to put THAT IDIOT to be the President of the free world ?
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Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
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THIS is NOT what is CONSIDERED to be Commander in Chief!!!!
This is a guy who is running somewhere between Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich on the Republican
side of the two party system. He has asked for consideration. He is not getting much more than attention.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
When you don't have nothing to say ... just go in Spell-Nazi mode - just so you can feel as if u r right.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
The Turks revere Ataturk and speak of him almost daily. They are proud of being a secular democracy.
far left loon >.<
Governor Perry doesn't quite understand that the military of Turkey has overthrown several governments that strayed too far from secular democracy. Even the more religious party in charge of Turkey knows this and that is why they don't go the way of Saudi Arabia or Iran.
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The Zionist Israelis have committed more terrorist acts throughout the world than any other country combined. Starting with the bombing of the King David Hotel, the slaughter of 34 U.S. sailors and critically wounding 140 others on board the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, to 9/11, 7/7, the massacre in Norway this past summer and most recently, murdering a nuclear scientist in Iran. These are but a few of the terrorist acts/false flags they have committed with total impunity. This is not to mention the daily terrorist acts they commit against the Palestinians. These Zionist neocons have infiltrated our local, state and federal governments and they hold key positions in the most important departments within our government, including the White House, Home Land Security, the Justice Department, the Pentagon and within Congress. We need to root out this cancer from the fabric of our nation if we have any expectation of taking back our country from those who are keen on destroying our democracy and way of life. Let us stop providing Israel with the over $3.5 billion U.S. Taxpayer dollars we give them every year (more than 17 countries combined who need it more than Israel). Let us apprehend and prosecute any Israeli who steals our military and technology secrets and sells them to China and Russia, like they have in the past with total impunity. Let us insist that our Department of Justice assign an independent prosecutor, with full subpoena powers, to fully investigate and prosecute the biggest crime and cover-up of the century, namely 9/11. Let us insist that DOJ fully investigate and prosecute the war crimes committed by the former Bush Administration. And, let us insist that DOJ fully investigate and prosecute all the criminals that committed the biggest fraud in Wall Street and the Banking sector. Once these legal issues are resolved, it will drain the swamp of all the Zionist neocons that have infiltrated our government and are dictating our foreign policy. Our elected representatives, including our President, are mere puppets of Israel’s AIPAC.
While I think some of what you say is a little over the top. I do recommend 'OCCUPATION 101' A documentary from 2007. It is a MUST SEE for anyone willing to not take the US and Israel propaganda as fact and who want to see what's going on from another perspective. Also worth read is the Amnesty International report on Operation Cast Lead.
Perry: "Honor killings bad! On another subject, we should allow the killings of abortion doctors. It's a matter of honor!"
I don't know which is more amazing, that anyone thinks he could be the president or that anyone in Texas thinks he should be their governor. I remember all the hoopla when the republicans wanted him to get into the presidential race. What a joke! He was to have been their shining star and instead he has become a shining joke on the whole country.
I keep waiting for him to look into a mirror and comb his hair the way Fonzy used to do. If you don't know who Fonzy was, he was the first tv character to jump the shark among other things.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
like his daddy made him put on his "Sunday go to meeting clothes" and he stands up on the stage with his chest out like someone so proud to be dressed up. What a pathetic hillbilly.
The good life is a day at the beach.
I've seen him in action being anti-intellectual. He wants the moron vote. Thankfully most non-texan reslug voters are not morons, assholes but not morons.
. . . he is even too stupid to lock up the dullard vote that keeps floating Palin's boat.
Perry is full of shit. AIPAC script he's reading.
far left loon >.<
Didn't the UN call the blockade Illegal? So attacking a country's ship in non Israeli waters IS an act of war. And will he jump on Israel for the rise in "Honor Killings" that have taken place there? What a Buffoon. And he wants us to hand him the keys to the country? I wouldn't trust him with the keys to the gas station mens room.
His foot might tap out a nice tune in the bathroom stall.
How can any one American be so absolutely ignorant of reality. What a complete ass.
He's auditioning to be a guest host on Fox and Friends whenever Steve Doocey or Brian Kilmeade need a day off.
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How did this offensive moron ever get elected to governor, even in Texas? He makes Bush look like a genius.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
That's no joke , he really does , George is Albert Einstein compared to this idiot . For many Republicon supporters , the dumber the better . Birds of a feather ."He's one of us honey ! Ahhhhm votin fer Ricky , yessirreee ! "
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
can't find anyone who would like to have a beer with this Texan like they did the last one. What do you expect, his campaign is being run by the now infamous Joe Albaugh who made Brownie the head of FEMA. Let's face it, other than Jim Hightower and a few old time journalists, there are no people left in Texas with an IQ above 12 or people like Perry wouldn't be in public office.
The good life is a day at the beach.
"This president that we've got today has such a muddled foreign policy."
Right after he says
"I will tell you, myself, and I think a lot of Americans, as we look at countries like Pakistan, like Turkey, that, on one hand, they want to send us the money, we want your money....."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Me thinks Ricky has been eating too many of them thar cow chips
He and George used to hang out together , borderline wet brains , both of them .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
WOW! What an ignorant evil fucktard. Sorry moderators but "fucktard" is the word for Perry. Un-fucking-believable!!!
I just want to curse like a drunken sailor when I see this animated living piece of shit spew forth his embarrasing verbal vomitus. What a national embarassment. I beg the world community not to tar me with this stench.
Thanks.
Doesn't matter , none of his supporters know any better . I wonder who in the hell would still be backing and funding this clown ?
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
"And I think Turkey has got to decide whether they want to be a country that projects those Western values that America is all about."
In other words, you have two options. Be like us or be our enemy. Perry is mentally ill, and I don't mean that to be humorous. He is literally mentally ill. All of these right-wing dirtbags are mentally ill.
Maybe we should throw Rick in prison for allowing all of the murders in Texas to occur.
Wolf you do realize that you're talking to an inbred hillbilly moron don't you. Wolf I'm talking to you. Look at who you're talking to.
Texas has executed 234. Some signed off by Gov Perry.
We should not give aid to that state or allow it to participate in the US military.
First we suffer from the idiot attacks of Bush and now Rick I can't remember what agency I want to get rid of Perry. Why must we suffer from the attacks of stupidity from this state
Secede or go back to Mexico. Make Rick your king.
Just make sure you don't let Rick's dumb ass back into Merica
it's our way...or the Texas highway....
ps....by the way...sorry about all our own gun deaths every year...
we don't really condone the atrocities....
did you not ask him about aid to Saudi Arabia, which is much more of a source of Muslim extremism than Turkey.
to have Perry's head exploded on national TV, I guess.
BTW, I went to Turkey last year. Lovely country, wonderful people.
would you ask this mental deficient any other serious question? Want another internation dustup?
The good life is a day at the beach.
And that's why i'se talkin' to you Wolfie because you don't give a shit if us Goopers are stoopid or not. You'se boys in the media cut us a lot of slack to make us look respectable when in reality we're dumber than dog shit.
Plus I'm packin' heat if you step over the line, boy. Just sayin.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
and taken it to a new low.
But just because they happen doesn't mean the government of the country they occur in condones & supports it.
That would be like saying the US govt is supports massacres of students because Columbine happened. Its stupid and wrong.
Perry is a total monkey.
Honor killings are illegal in Turkey. It carries a sentence of life in prison and it is regularly prosecuted. Whole families have been thrown in jail for life. Maybe he's just mad because Turkey doesn't have our values ever since they abolished the death penalty. If we are to judge a country on how it treats its own citizens, perhaps we should judge that?
Once again the ASS WIPE of Texas confirms he his twice as stupid as any Inbred white trailer trash moron from the south.Not only that he is TWICE as DUMB, proof that being from the South is dangerous to one Intellect and Understanding of the REAL WORLD. Good news maybe this ASS WIPE has proven once and for all he is even to STUPID to be re elected as governor.
Further PROOF why ABORTION is so important in the life choices of LIFE, this is one that should have been ABORTED, with out a second thought.
In the face of Truth and Reality this ASS WIPE still believes he is right what a TURD.
We just have to shrug and grin at what an ass he is on the national stage.
Our governor is a real twat!
And I'm sorry if I offended any twats out there.
...the moral failings of other governmental officials. Killed any innocent people lately, Ricky?
Rick Perry is such a colossal idiot it's just beyond belief.
you can't keep a big Texas dummy down.
The good life is a day at the beach.
The ones he met with in 2007, that is. Just as Obama met with them in 2008.
It's so hard to find good help these days, isn't it?
Uneducated Perry is why Texas is dead last in education.
Is like Rick Perry; so dumb it will stand Straight up in a Rain Storm, mouth open and Drown himself.
Donaldd
"A country that referred to the Israel flotilla attack as an act of war," The key word here is attack. Israeli commandos boarded a foreign vessel in international waters and killed and injured passengers. That could be called an act of piracy. The government of Turkey is secular in a Muslim country. The Government of Israel has gone from being socialist in its roots to being right wing today. The Government owes it's existence to the power of the ultra orthodox political parties in Israel that control the swing vote in the elections and in the Knesset. These groups are tearing Israeli society apart with their extremist religious point of view.
We don't want or need another texan in the White House
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