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Old 02-17-2011, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
The left loves to say this, and it's true to a degree. But what kind of governments existed there before 'we' 'installed' them?

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In Iran's case, a democratically elected one with Mohammad Mosaddegh as its prime minister. He was ousted in a coup orchestrated by Britain and the US over oil. In the case of Iran, "installed" doesn't need to be put in quotation marks with respect to the Shah.
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