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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: jlallen who wrote (433545)7/25/2003 3:21:00 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Really now??????

Just like propping up the Shah against the democratic aspirations of the population was 'in our interests'?

Ha! Those short-term interests turned around and bit us in the ass.

Supporting a dictatorial Monarchy can hardly be in our best long-term interests... especially when it is the major funder of Muslim extremists.