Originally posted by: FrancesBeansRevenge
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
fyi, Mossadeq was removed in the 50s. btw, there was both anti-monarchy and pro-monarchy support amongst the masses. The shah was not as widely despised as some would try to make everyone believe, and Mossadeq was falling out of public favor due to lack of delivery on his promises (kind of like Ahmadinejad today). That's not to mention the power-play Mossadeq was pulling by overstepping his authority and dissolving Iranian Parliament.
Proxy war through Iraq? I guess you ignore that we also furtively provided support to Iran as well, eh? Or are you actually trying to imply that the US was behind Saddam's invasion of Iran? I wouldn't doubt it. Sounds like the kind of ignorant accusation you'd make.
The downing of the Iranian airliner was a tragic mistake but considering everything that was happening at the time in the Persian Gulf with Iran it wasn't very surpising. Google the case of the USS Samuel B. Roberts because you are probably clueless about all the surrounding circumstances and tensions of that time.
btw, where's your example from the 60s?
What nice, clean, benign descriptions of the crimes we commited against the Iranian people.
Let's see, let's imagine China (or insert country here) overthrew the democractically elected government of the United States in the 1950s and installed a dictator of their choice. Let's also imagine China then sponsored a proxy war between the US and Mexico in 80s... funding, arming, and assisting BOTH sides for the sole reason as to cause maximum drain of both Iraqi and Iranian lives and treasuries (this is, after all, the ONLY reason to support both sides in a conflict). Then, if those two gems of foreign policy weren't enough, China, while parking a battleship just off our coast in international waters, 'accidentally' (they might not view it that way and neither would we) shoots down an American Airlines plane full of American civillians.
If this was our history, how do you think the American people would feel about China?
Would there be fear? Suspicion? Mistrust? Hatred even? Would American citizens expect their nation to take every measure neccessary to ensure our nation doesn't fall vicitm to China again? I know I would. Why would I expect any different from the Iranians?
Oh thats right I'm American, with my own set of world rules. Yeehaw.