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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (646762)	10/17/2004 8:46:22 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

ah, the legacy of jimmy "north korea nukes" carter...... American hostages for 444 days in Iran because carter was a failure...

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (646762)	10/27/2004 1:39:29 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

===> "The US puppet, the Shah, allowed extremists to take over." <=== You need to spend a little time researching and understanding history. There was much more individual freedom under the Shah than under any other regime in the Middle East, either then or now, except for Israel. The Shah modernized Iran. But he had to use brutal tactics to keep groups similar to Al Qaeda or Hamas at bay. You call the Shah a US puppet, but under the Shah the Iranians had it better than any other time, previous or since. Small minds like yours like to rewrite history. ===> "His dictatorship was not much different than Saddam's and the religious extremists rebelled." <=== Saddam murdered hundreds of thousands and kept most of Iraq in misery and poverty. He used poison gases on his own people. The Shah modernized Iran, and gave women many rights that were unheard of in those days, in the Middle East. Your statement speaks from ignorance and lack of knowledge. ===> "I know you know about religious extremism." <=== Of course I do. I study and research and know about both the dangers of religious extremism, and the dangers of radicals like you who yell and scream and jump up and down, frothing at the mouth about which you know nothing.