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Edward Dolan
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"Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> R Brickston wrote:
>> ...
>> So, do you think that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is mentally stable enough to
>> possess The Bomb?
>
> If Allen Dulles, at the request of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (a
> predecessor to BP), had not engineered a coup that removed the
> democratic Mossadegh government and replaced it with the brutal and
> repressive regime of Reza Mohammad Shah Pahlavi, Iran would likely be a
> true democracy now, instead of a country effectively run by a small
> group of Shia clerics.
The Shah was in the process of Westernizing and democratizing Iran. He was
not nearly repressive enough in my opinion as he should have put down the
mullahs without mercy.
> Of course it was the Iranians' fault for being upset that 85% of the
> profits from hydrocarbon extraction were going to the British, leaving
> 15% for Iran, and having the temerity to do something about it.
The West should have taken over all the Middle Eastern oil fields by
military force. To have left these resources in the hands of Arab thugs was
a huge mistake. We see the same scenario playing out now in Venezuela where
the resident thug (Chavez) is waxing eloquent due to his oil profits. The
West badly needs to get off the oil ***, that is for sure.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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> R Brickston wrote:
>> ...
>> So, do you think that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is mentally stable enough to
>> possess The Bomb?
>
> If Allen Dulles, at the request of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (a
> predecessor to BP), had not engineered a coup that removed the
> democratic Mossadegh government and replaced it with the brutal and
> repressive regime of Reza Mohammad Shah Pahlavi, Iran would likely be a
> true democracy now, instead of a country effectively run by a small
> group of Shia clerics.
The Shah was in the process of Westernizing and democratizing Iran. He was
not nearly repressive enough in my opinion as he should have put down the
mullahs without mercy.
> Of course it was the Iranians' fault for being upset that 85% of the
> profits from hydrocarbon extraction were going to the British, leaving
> 15% for Iran, and having the temerity to do something about it.
The West should have taken over all the Middle Eastern oil fields by
military force. To have left these resources in the hands of Arab thugs was
a huge mistake. We see the same scenario playing out now in Venezuela where
the resident thug (Chavez) is waxing eloquent due to his oil profits. The
West badly needs to get off the oil ***, that is for sure.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota