03-31-2008, 11:24 PM
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Franklin Pierce
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 3,695
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Originally Posted by spudcon
Despite all the rhetoric about gas prices, Iran declared war on America when it invaded American soil in 1979, taking over the Tehran American Embassy, killing Americans there, and holding the rest hostage and torture.. Our response? Jimmy Carter's lame attempt at a rescue, and weak kneed third party diplomacy. It wasn't GWB and oil men who started and encouraged Islamic Fascism, it was a liberal peanut farmer who showed weakness to bullies. If we had someone like GWB in the white house, instead of a wimp, the revolution probably would never have happened in Iran, and the Islamic terror war against America would never have happened.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...'%C3%A9tat
Major foreign policy blowback.
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