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cliffside

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7. Yes we did and I'm right behind you in years, but they elected a secular leader ...

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 4, 2026, 01:44 AM

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which the US helped to overthrow and installed the Shah.

I had nothing to do with it either, but actions have consequences. Installing the Shah, who spent a large percentage of oil revenues buying military equipment from the US, while the citizens suffered. The citizens rose up and in 1979 the government was overthrown with a hard line religious leader. We backed Sadaam Hussein during the Iraq/Iran and again sold equipment to Iraq ( corporations profit again) ... then we did not like him anymore etc etc.

All the while corporations profit and the general population suffers. Too often we hear of the hostages in 1979 and not go back to the overthrow of Mossaddegh.

We can do better.

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Oil Wars in the Mid East, since 1990. Every Republican President has started a war there. [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Friday OP

Republicans are paid agents of the ... Dave says Friday #1

All I know, it's always Republicans starting ME wars...Defense stocks go up as well as oil futures. OAITW r.2.0 Saturday #2

Please do not forget about the 1953 coup, money, money ... same story different decade ... cliffside Saturday #3

We truly fucked up with Iran in 1953. The year I got born. I had nothing to do with it. OAITW r.2.0 Saturday #5

Yes we did and I'm right behind you in years, but they elected a secular leader ... cliffside Saturday #7

McClain wanted to bomb Iran too. nt PufPuf23 Saturday #4

I think McCain found out who the real enemy of America was.... OAITW r.2.0 Saturday #6

Didn't Iraq invade Kuwait, and we protected Kuwait? sakabatou Saturday #8

George Herbert Walker Bush gave Saddam a green light to invade Kuwait. Kid Berwyn Saturday #9

"We" loved Iraq.... OAITW r.2.0 Saturday #11

William Safire called for Poppy Doc's prosecution. Kid Berwyn Saturday #16

I don't remember any of this, as I was just a small kid sakabatou Saturday #13

Iraq and Iran were at war... Chemical Bill Saturday #14

US was "helping " both sides kill one another. Kid Berwyn Saturday #15

Kuwait was side drilling into Iraqi oil deposits. OAITW r.2.0 Saturday #10

Kuwait and Iraq were pumping oil from the same oil field Kaleva Saturday #12