Posted on 06/30/2005 4:02:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
No doubt Jimmuh Cawtuh has blessed the election and sent a love note to Mahmoud......
I'd be amazed if our intelligence services didn't ID and track all the players in the Iranian Hostage Crisis from 1980 on to today....
If it's the guy in the photo that's in the CBS News archive, it's not the same guy. Nose and earlobe different, without a doubt.
I agree. And I think he let it all take place and now we have a reason to go into Iran or stir their sh*t pot.
Jimmuh praised the shah when he was in power but did nothing to keep him there--he was a creep, sure, but how come Saddam is "bad, but no threat" and he got involved in a war that killed one million...and he fought it against a regime that slithered into power after the downfall of the shah. (The mullahs and the ayatollah were NOT the ones who were intended to be put in power after the shah's fall, they crawled back into the country and basically took control of a rudderless opposition.)
If Jimmuh had helped keep the shah in power, Khomeni might never have been in charge, and gone to war with Saddam, and killed a million people.
All of that is fine with the left...but someone liberating the area, admittedly with some civilian casualties, but helping to start the process of democratization--he's a Nazi? And the vile Carter is "our greatest ex-president"?
Related earlier thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434208/posts
There are two issues :
1)Ahmadinejad, without question, DID participate in the hostage crisis. That's a fact.
2) Is that him in the photo? I don't know. There are differences. But it really doesn't matter who the man in the photo is.
While I certainly hope that the CIA has done what you suggest, I have my doubts. After all, it is the CIA
I betcha Israel will have a thing or two to say and do about this also!!!
You're right, I'm sure, but I think we need to make it clear that the photo comparison isn't anywhere near proof that they're the same guy.
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They look pretty close to being the same guy to me.
No, I don't think it's clear, either. And, this whole photo thing was started on a website run by the MEK, a designated terrorist group, itself involved in the hostage crisis, that has a grudge against the regime.
As I said, it doesn't matter who the man is in the photo.
Ahmadinejad was involved in the hostage crisis, photo or not. He also wanted to storm the Russian embassy, at the time.
History is repleat with "footnote's".
Jimmuh was a most forgetable "footnote".
You are correct though, this thread to the past needs more attention.
A caller on Rush's show today made a good case about this very matter.
LVM
What happens when this jerk feels like throwing atomic bombs around the neighborhood towards, for instance, Israel?
Once let loose they are devastating.
Should there be preventive measures similar to what Saddam had to tolerate when Israel decided enough is enough?
OK, point made. Most likely not the same guy.
Call this a Ratherism..... inaccurate, but factual.
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