[Kaslin]

Very well said.

The entire fault of the situation belongs to the peanut farmer from Georgia

[Alberta's Child]

Over the last few weeks I’ve seen plenty of comments from Freepers who claim that having the people of Iran overthrow their government would be a great turn of events for the U.S.

But isn’t that exactly what happened in 1979?

[Leaning Right]

> The entire fault of the situation belongs to the peanut farmer from Georgia <

I half-agree. Carter removed the Shah of Iran. And then he stood by and watched as the radicals took over.

But Iran was still held (somewhat) in check by Saddam Hussein next door in Iraq. Then Bush II came along and did the radicals a big favor by removing Saddam.

So I’d assign blame to both Carter and Bush II. Who was worse? Carter got the ball rolling. But Bush II got lots and lots of people killed. And there’s still not a single captured MED on display in any of our military museums.

So my vote as worse goes to Bush II.

[karnage]

That’s a bingo.