The hypocrisy of neo-con toward Iran is amazing. Was the bloody regime of the Shaw better for the Iranian population ? You have to remember that the US / UK imposed a regime change in 1953 to install the Shaw instead of the previous DEMOCRATIC government that had committed the mortal sin of nationalizing THEIR OIL (a decision that the Shaw reversed quickly). And since that’s more than 50 years ago, we now have access to the full archive of this nice operation, it’s not only speculative, it’s a reality. 50 years ago, you only had to claim that a country was turning red to justify invading it. Today, you simply accuse them of being terrorist. Demonize to colonize. You will always find “scholars” ready to tell the power what they want to hear to justify their actions.

I wonder how the American population would feel toward another country that would have helped overthrow your democracy (or what is left of it) to put in place a king instead because they required access to your resources ? Most Americans don’t know (or don’t want to know) what is done in their name around the world and they wonder after how come the people who have to live with the impacts of your decision hate you so much.

Without the bloody and tyrannical regime of the Shaw , the Iranian population would never have supported the Ayatollahs and their Islamofascist regime. In their mind, they were liberated from an even more dangerous and fascist regime, a FOREIGN regime supported by the US and the UK. Despair and fear give a lot of strength to religious fascist… and the current menace of an imminent US attack on their country will only help the Mullahs grow in strength. You think the kids who love the US in Iran right now will still love it the day their parents or little brother / sister will be killed by a “smart” bomb who missed its target ?

There’s plenty of other fascist or tyrannical regimes out there that you could liberate…but they don’t have large reserve of oil or they don’t represent a menace to Israel security… still interested in liberating them ? Why are the only regime worth liberating on this planet must have oil or other resources of geostrategic interest to the US ?

With all the non-democratic and tyrannical regimes fully supported by the US (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, a lot of the “Stan” or ex soviet republics, etc.) the hypocrisy of claiming to liberate the Iraqis and now the Iranians is amazing. Nobody with a mind not brainwashed by FoxNews don’t believe this kind of cow dung.

ML:

thanks for this classic example of how someone pretending to support liberty ends by defending the ugliest tyranny in the middle east.