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Originally Posted by dellinger63
Guess who had its leader overthrown by radical Islamists headed by the Ayatollah and had taken over the American embassy complete with taking hostages that were held under disgusting conditions and paraded for a year and a half?
You suggest we should have backed the other side?
Just think how WWII would have turned out if we had backed Japan.  |
You mean the leader that was installed by us after we orchestrated a coup to overthrow Iran's democratically elected leader because we didn't like him nationalizing his own nation's oil industry (which up until then was being exploited by the Brits)? The leader we installed who ruled as a monarch for over 25 years because we were paying the bills? That leader?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état
Since you advocate cutting foreign aid as a solution to the national debt, one would have thought you'd have been pleased about a foreign nation telling the USA to take its monetary aid and get stuffed.