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Ahmadinejad Wants U.S. to Apologize for Its Long-Ago Role in Iran Coup
President Obama’s admission Thursday of a U.S. role in the toppling of an Iranian government more than half a century ago fell short of the apology that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been demanding for that episode and other “crimes” against Iran.
“In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government,” Obama said in his closely watched address in Cairo, directed at the world’s Muslims.
He can’t be bothered to produce documents to prove, or disprove, his eligibility to hold the highest office in the land, but yet, he can spew anything and everything that will cause harm to our nation.
Hundreds of American military personnel have been killed by terrorists linked to Iran, from the early 1980s in Lebanon until the present day in Iraq.
Evidently, those deaths mean diddly to the Clown in Chief. No doubt, his words will cause many more. Will it bother him? Odds are, no. Nothing that damages the U.S., or her citizens, bothers The ONE. It’s all about HIM!
“In 1953 the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran’s popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh,” she said. “The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons. But the coup was clearly a setback for Iran’s political development. And it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.”
Ok? And so? That was then. This is now. Obviously, Iran hasn’t progressed. If anything, socially, they have regressed. This is the country that has no homosexuals, remember? Why? Cuz they freakin’ hang them!
I don’t know what the “stategic reasons” were that Ike thought were so important. At this point in time, I don’t give a flip. What I do care about is the fact the POTUS is wandering around the world, on our dime BTW, apologizing for anything and everything the U.S. has ever done, thinking this is going to make our enemies like us. Ya know what? I don’t give a flying ……….. flip, whether our enemies like us or not! That’s why they are enemies. They want to do us major harm! All he’s doing is proving how incompetent he really is, and the rest of the world is starting to recognize this…..why can’t we???
That’s some pretty impressive foreign policy you’ve got there.
“I don’t care whether our enemies like us. I don’t know why they don’t. I don’t think we should try to make them stop. Why don’t we just shoot them all?”
I think the biggest point here is that we actually did overthrow a popularly-elected ruler just to prevent the U.S.S.R from competing for oil purchases, back in the ’50′s. We went into a nation that was moving AWAY from Islamist government and political oppression and decided to blow that up. Part of our strategy in the ’53 coup, by the way, was encouraging clerical dissent against then-Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq’s secularist policies. We helped push Iran towards the unstable, religiously fundamentalist state that it is today.
I’d say that admitting we screwed up big time on that count ought to be something every reasonable person can do. We violated a nation’s sovereignty, helped cripple democratic sentiment, and, in the process, achieved pretty much the opposite of what we wanted to. That’s a huge mistake, ethically and policy-wise, and we ought to face up to it.
I have a really hard time understanding how apologizing for things that you ACTUALLY DID WRONG could possibly be a bad idea.
Well, genius….you don’t apologize to people who want to cut your head off. I never said whether or not I agree with something that happened before I was born.
I guess you are one of those people who believe I should apologize for slavery? Ain’t gonna happen. And btw, I don’t know who you were supposedly quoting up there, but I’d suggest you put down your doobie.
Youre especially high if you think something that happened in 53 has bearing on how the world views us today. What you said made a whole lot of NO SENSE there, N.S.