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To: bentway who wrote (740037)	9/17/2013 5:51:44 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572505

Rasmussen: Americans would rather see government shutdown than Obamacare funded

To: bentway who wrote (740037)	9/17/2013 6:02:46 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572505

In 1953, President Eisenhower assisted the Shah of Iran in removing loon Mohammad Mossadegh as prime minister. Mossadegh had been elected in the confusion after the assassination of the previous prime minister, whereupon he promptly nationalized Iran’s oil fields, driving out the British companies who knew how to run them, thus wiping out Iran’s primary source of wealth. With British and American help, the shah’s choice was installed as prime minister, and a friendly government ruled Iran. Alas, 20 years later, Jimmy Carter became president. When Islamic fundamentalists staged a revolution in Iran, Carter refused to come to the aid of the shah, a staunch American ally. Liberals praised Ayatollah Khomeini to the skies — Carter’s U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, Princeton’s Richard Falk and LBJ attorney general Ramsey Clark all assured us that life would be peachy under him. What could go wrong? The ayatollah had barely seized power when Islamic lunatics took 52 Americans hostage in Tehran, where they remained for 444 days, until Carter was safely removed from office. By giving Islamic fanatics their first nation-state, Carter produced the global Islamofacist movement we’re still dealing with today.