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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (5363)	6/3/2007 11:41:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

Re: "Why would I blame Mickey Mouse or Fred Sanford? I like Mickey Mouse and Fred Sanford..." LOL! (Good one!) But, you see, 'like' has nothing to do with it. The question to consider is WHO, (or... WHAT POLICIES) contributed to, or 'caused', the conditions, the state-of-affairs (Iran's hostility to the West, and it's turn to totalitarian Theocracy... not-to-mention the Whabbist-inspired jihadism that is afflicting the world today, like al Qaeda.). And, the little 'peanut farmer', most assuredly, had very little to do with any of this. He, and all of us since, have just been tagged with the blowback from other's poorly considered actions and policies, from much earlier. Note though, that much of this 'boil' could easily have been lanced by now, and not be a problem for the US any longer... if towards the end of the second Reagan/Bush term they hadn't CHANGED what was there-to-for a VERY EFFECTIVE POLICY of letting the Persians and Saddam fight each other... if they hadn't flip-flopped away from that winning and clever approach, into one of pulling Saddam's bacon out of the fire. Our modern world would be SO MUCH SAFER BY NOW if they hadn't changed directions.... Even as late as the 'eighties we had the opportunity to correct many of the mistaken policies of decades earlier. (And, even today, I believe....)