Originally posted by Ira It's amazing the sacrifices W made, huh? The U.S. leader in Presidential vacations and doing nothing.
Wow--you guys are getting desperate.
You're still defending that ignorant putz who couldn't even utter a coherent sentence..
wonders what does it say about the people that continue to harp about him almost 2 years after he left office? Hopefully at some point maybe they will learn to move on? To think that everything in the world occurred solely because of what one president did over 8 years while ignoring what every president before and since has done is living in ignorance of causality
example
President Carter supports Khomeini's return to Iran as opposition to the Shah because of his violation of human rights.
Carter administration officials also expressed support to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. William Sulivan, Carter’s ambassador to Iran, said, “Khomeini is a Ghandi-like figure.”
Carter adviser James Bill said that Khomeini is not a mad mujahid, but a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty.”
“Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint,” said Andrew Young, Carter’s ambassador to the UN. We know he returns to Iran and creates the first Islamic Republic.
lets jump forward past the year long hostage event at the US embassy and the fiasco in the dessert caused by President Cater to 1986 and then President Reagan. The Iran-Contra affair began as an operation to improve U.S.-Iranian relations. It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to a relatively moderate, politically influential group of Iranians, and then the U.S. would resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of six U.S. hostages, who were being held by the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah, who in turn were unknowingly connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. The plan deteriorated into an arms-for-hostages scheme, in which members of the executive branch sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages.[3][4] Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.
Hezbollah later goes on to control Lebanon causing Isreal to invade the nation several times in order to secure its Northern border. Key funder of Hezbollah is Iran. Lets also not forget about Reagans support of the freedom fighters in afghanistan we all know how that went and what is still happening because of it.
Lets look back at the end of the Second World War and the decision by Truman to return south east asia back to France because we liked them and needed to keep them on our side. Result they have this little thing know as the vietnamese war and what happens another President Kennedy decides to help out and plunges us into a 30 year war
Cause and effect