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Idiot!
Scott Walker is an idiot!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/14/1402219/-Scott-Walker-says-Iran-held-Americans-hostage-in-1979-so-there-can-be-no-negotiations-now
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)He is a spawn of Satan
asjr
(10,479 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)riversedge
(70,381 posts)book-missing lots of details and context.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Update - Moses won the Alamo! Austin was the orignial Gardern of Eden!
New history of Texas - pilgrims landed, build cities, tamed the wild west, got soft on crime, let the North win, elected horrible people like Ann Richards, got saved by baptism of fire thanks to General Abbott and Marshall Walker...Texas Ranger General of God's Militias. Muslim Obama's horde of athiests detested foxholes and fled to Greater France (Canada).
All that stuff about other 'peoples' and 'societies', who cares. Let's go grill something!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,507 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)Let's see. 1953 we backed Pahlavi despite the fact that Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was democratically elected. Pahlavi engaged in the same behavior as the despots around the world, silencing critics through imprisonment, torture, death etc etc. The west then gave him sanctuary after he fled during the revolution. We then armed Iraq in the 80s. Yeah, our failed foreign policy with Iran is not entirely their fault. We have made MANY mistakes.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)That explains his utter ignorance.
US overthrew an elected leader, and installed the Shah as dictator. Roughly 25 years of a repressive dictatorship led to the Shah being overthrown. During that revolt, some Americans were taken hostage. Ronald Reagan, then merely a candidate for POTUS, cut a deal with Iran to hold on to the hostages until the election was over.
The takeaway: 1) US shouldn't have meddled in an emerging democracy in Iran in the first place. 2) Ronald Reagan was a traitor.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)between Iran and America. None. I would be good money on that going toward the entire Clown Car and their ring masters in the GOP.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)October Surprise leads straight to Iran-Contra (then to ripping off the S&Ls to ripping off the banks).
Johonny
(20,927 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,782 posts)There will always be an excuse for hatred and killing. There will always be pathetic fools who will kill for their own fame and fortune.
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