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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (18885)	1/12/2007 8:58:38 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

Billy Carter would have been a better President

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (18885)	1/12/2007 12:04:21 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

The Shah fell because of the Shah, not Carter. Carter had nothing to do with the Shah falling. He did not have a military option to go in and seize the country. The US had already been selling billions in weapons to the Shah for many years. The Shah abused his power terribly, tortired his people and lived like European royalty. There were the very rich friends of the Shah then everyone else was treated like servgants. Classic set-up for a revolution. If the Shah had been a more compassionate leader he would have remained in power. So what options did Carter have? A rescue mission, which he okayed, but unfortunately it ran into bad weather. If the rightwing thnks Carter was so bad on Iran, what about their hero Reagan? What did reagan do to fight Iranians? Nothing. In fact he secretly and illegally armed them through Ollie North, not just once but multiple times. Then he went and armed Saddam too.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (18885)	1/14/2007 1:25:41 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

So you think it would have been a good idea to go to war with Iran in 1979? Back then we didn't have the precise munitions that we have today and it probably would have cost us 30,000 American lives to install another puppet like the Shah. That new guy would have probably been overthrown by now too, so we might have been invading Iran (with Saddam's help) in 2003 rather than the way it eventually turned out. Interesting to contemplate. You can ask the "crusaders" or the British or anybody else you want to ask...going to War in the Middle East is A bitch.