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The MEK (Mojahedeen Khalq - trained by Arafat's PLO) trail of blood against Americans:

In the 1970’s they launched a terror campaign against the Shah's forces and Americans.

In 1970 they tried to kidnap US Ambassador McArthur.

In 1972 they almost succeeded in assassinating US Air Force General Price.

In 1973 they killed US Army Colonel Hawkins and in 1975 murdered US Air Force Colonel Turner.

1976 they murdered three American civilians from Rockwell Int.

They also killed an Imperial Iranian Gendarmerie colonel in 1975.

Their ideology is: Ali, Hossein (the Shia Imams), Marx and Engels.

The MEK/MKO Rajavi cultists are the scum of the earth, and being (wannabe) rivals of the mullahs doesn't redeem any of their crimes and evil goals.

ElkGroveDan... unfortunately you aren't the only one in the West tricked by these terrorists into sympathising with them. But in face of the facts... do you still want to maintain your position on them?

US Ltn. Colonel Lewis Lee Hawkins

His final assignment came in July 1972 when he was attached to the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group to the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces in Tehran, Iran. Annette and Lee joined Lewis in Tehran where they lived in the Abass-Abad neighborhood. On the morning of 2 June 1973, as Lewis was walking from his home to a street corner to be picked up by his driver, two (MKO) terrorists riding a motorcycle fired at point-blank range and fired two or three shots killing Lewis instantly.

1975 car carrying U.S. Air Force officers Col. Paul Shaffer and Lt. Col. Jack Turner was trapped between two cars carrying terrorists. They told the Iranian driver to lie down and then shot and killed ("executed") the Americans.

The MEK also supported the hostage taking of the US embassy.

They aren't a good group, but if they could help us with the Iranian regime then I have no problem with the U.S. helping them out. But I don't know much about them and I have no idea if they could serve our interest in any way. A lot of the groups that are now our Allies in Iraq have American blood on their hands.

We are also supposedly helping some group in Pakistan that is fighting against the Iranian regime even though they probably aren't big fans of the U.S.

We helped a lot of our current enemies in Afghanistan in their war against the Soviets and I think most people agree we did what we needed to do at the time. Same thing with Russia in WW2(although I think we should have taken Patton's advise and pushed them back into Moscow after the war).

But as I said I don't know much about this group in Iraq and if they can't help us out with Iran in any significant way then they got what they deserved.