CIA and the Shah: "We hate Mohammad Mossadegh and his gov't because of their freedom"

[Boojatta]

Freedom creates complexity, and complexity is difficult enough to understand, and even more difficult to control. If you install a dictator, and you control the dictator, then you have a method of maintaining control.

[Angry Dragon]

1. 1953

[libodem]

2. Everything we thought we hated

In the USSR and the KGB. Our enemies seem to shape us. We are not the good guys any more.

[rudycantfail]

3. I agree with your OP

but are you quoting yourself or someone else and if so then who? Link?

[Boojatta]

5. It's not a quote, but an allusion to what GWB said.

Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber -- a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Why_do_they_hate_us%3F

I consider the above link to be a secondary source. It includes a link that apparently used to link to a primary source, but no longer links to anything.

[rudycantfail]

6. I understand what you're saying.

Thanks.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. That was one of the worst geo-political moves we made in the 20th century.

Right up there with Arbenz in Guatemala and the coup in Chile.

I normally defend Ike in the context of comparison to today's GOP, but some of the shady crap that happened while he was golfing was inexcusable.