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To: Ilaine who wrote (20122)12/16/2003 9:06:55 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793591
 
Cb,
The hostage crisis created an anti-iran view in this country and the CW back then is that during the iran/iraq war we tilted toward iraq as the lesser of two evils. Many americans hoped that both sides would exhaust themselves in a brutal war which in part happened. And at that time the Ayotollah was comprable to bin laden today and the iranians engaged in terrorism. Saddam always kept the terror connections on the low burner and it always was more difficult to pin terrorism on iraq. Perhaps with the capture of saddam we will learn the extent of their involvement then and now. Mike



To: Ilaine who wrote (20122)12/16/2003 12:09:24 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793591
 
As I recall the prevailing sentiment was I wish they both could loose.

For the small group who even knew the difference between Iraq and Iran, yes, we regretted that Iran was taken over by the Ayatollah, but that didn't make Saddam any less of a totalitarian dictator.


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