
Originally Posted by
Kirkland Laing
The Brits discovered oil in Iran and the Anglo-Iranian oil company, really the Anglo-Anglo oil company and now BP, used to produce the oil and pay Iran a small percentage. Iran nationalised their oil fields and it wasn't till Eisenhower decided to intervene that the Shah was installed. But that was a US operation. Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, Kermit, was the CIA agent in charge of doing it. He wrote a book about it, which you can still buy. The Brits had almost no input in doing it, nor in screwing up Iran between 1953 and 1979 and the revolution there. Propping up the Shah all those years was a US policy and the US is entirely responsible for the disaster that ensued. Now epic dumbass George W Bush has compounded the problem by handing over to America's mortal enemies the world's second-largest oil reserve in Iraq, something described by an Iranian Ayatollah as a "dream come true."
Are you seriously trying to claim some sort of victory in our argument? I've been beating you like a gong since we started arguing in this forum and will continue to do so as long as we do. A couple of posts ago you were reduced to claiming that you were fine with the US putting a bunch of terrorists who blew up a US embassy in charge in Iraq.
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