Iran, I'm sorry we didn't nuke you and turn your sorry rears into runway lights.
Posted on 02/02/2009 6:08:24 PM PST by Kaslin
Mideast: Iran's president wants an apology from the United States for its past policies toward Tehran. We did that once. Global leadership means never having to say you're sorry.
Been there, done that. President Clinton apologized at a state dinner on April 12, 1999, saying Iran "has been the subject of quite a lot of abuse from various Western nations. And I think sometimes it's quite important to tell people, look, you have a right to be angry at something my country or my culture or others that are generally allied with us today did to you 50 or 60 or 150 years ago."
As the Los Angeles Times recounted on March 18, 2000, the Clinton administration in its final year positively groveled before the mullahs in the proud tradition of Jimmy Carter. Carter, recall, helped bring them to power out of concern for human rights violations by the pro-Western regime led by the Shah of Iran.
In 2000, at a state dinner in Washington, Secretary of State Madeline Albright also apologized for past American actions toward Iran, from our role in orchestrating the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq, to our backing of the shah, to our backing of Iraq in its war with Iran.
Albright said that the U.S. understood Iranian anger over the 1953 CIA operation that let the shah return to Iran and preside over a "brutally oppressive" regime.
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Never an apology for the hostages.
AL ARABIYA.net - TV: "Full transcript of president's first interview on Arab TV President Obama gives interview to Al-Arabiya" (January 27, 2009)
TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world that the language we use has to be a language of respect. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.
Q: The largest one.
THE PRESIDENT: The largest one, Indonesia. And so what I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith -- and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers -- regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams. And my job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."
I am sorry too. I am sorry that a lot of morons elected a tail-between-his-legs pussy to the presidency who is going to apologize for everything our country has ever done and will negotiate from a position of weakness rather than strength. This is how wars get started.
Please God, make this bad dream end.
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Not to worry folks, Obama will turn the full force of our police and intelligence agencies against...the citizenry. Just like Clinton.
BHO already has it written, I bet.
I’m sorry, alright...sorry the worthless, gutless POS James Carter didn’t nuke Khomeieni and all his sand-maggots
in 1979! The poison that is Wahabbi Islam might never have spread far & wide, ensuring our current conflict.
And now we’ve elected a Carter-clone-on-steroids.
The inmates are running the asylum.
After demanding that we apologize once more; he also tack on a second requirement, that we “condemn the Zionist regime” - those are his words, not mine.
Iran, I'm sorry we didn't nuke you The brutal oppressiveness of the Shah pales in comparison to that of the mad mullahs.
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