nancibaren Loc: Cambridge, Ma

Edward (Eddie) Itamar/אִיתָמָר Kay

Alber

He is just a poor devil who pretends to annoy and writes to entertain himself.

Alber

“G****r ideology”? What the hell does that even mean?

I see you care. You know very well what it is.

Alber

In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts flame wars or intentionally upsets people on the Internet by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community.
The one you are defending is a Democratic troll, much like Kevyn. I haven't searched any history book to say anything, this guy named Kemmer is one who suffers from TDS just like Kevyn. Find out a little more before speaking lightly. Illustrate yourself by reading what I send you. I hope the Kemmer troll reads it too, so he doesn't talk as much trash.

Before Jimmy Carter's human rights disaster of ignorance in Iran, the U.S. was loved in a very westernized Iran.

In the mid twentieth century, US-Iran relations prospered. Many Americans celebrated Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as a model ruler/king. President Lyndon B. Johnson pronounced in 1964: "What is going on in Iran is about the best thing going on anywhere in the world."

During the 1970's Iran's Shah propelled Iran into becoming a dynamic middle-east regional power. The Shah implemented broad economic and social reforms, including enhanced rights for women, and religious and ethnic minorities. Economic and educational reforms were adopted, initiatives to cleanse politics of social upheaval were systematized, and the civil service system was reformed. When sectors of society r**ted to demand even greater freedom, the Shah promised constitutional reform to favor democracy.

During that period of the 1970's under the Shah, the U.S. had more Iranian students in this country acquiring degrees than from any other country on earth. They loved the U.S.

In the face of Soviet and fundamentalist Islamic pressures, constitutional reform remained on the back burner, as the Shah built what on paper was the world's fifth or sixth largest armed force. In 1976, it had an estimated 3,000 tanks, 890 helicopter gunships, over 200 advanced fighter aircraft, the largest fleet of hovercraft in any country and 9,000 anti-tank missiles.

The Shah used Iran's military might to address regional crises consistent with foreign relations goals of the United States. The Nixon and Ford administrations endorsed these efforts and allowed the Shah to acquire virtually unlimited quantities of any non-nuclear weapons in the American arsenal.

In accord with the pleasant US-Iran relations then-existing, President Carter spent New Year's Eve in 1977 with the Shah and toasted Iran as "an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world". Nonetheless, between 1975 and 1978, the Shah's popularity fell due to the Carter administration's misguided implementation of human rights policies.

The e******n of Mr. Carter as president of the United States in 1976, with his vocal emphasis on the importance of human rights in international affairs, was a turning point in US-Iran relations. The Shah of Iran was accused by his enemies of torturing over 3000 prisoners.

Under the banner of promoting human rights, Carter made excessive demands of the Shah, threatening to withhold military and social aid. Carter pressured the Shah to release "political prisoners", whose ranks included radical fundamentalists, c*******ts and terrorists. Many of these individuals are now among the opponents we face in our "war on terrorism".

The Carter Administration insisted that the Shah disband military tribunals, demanding they be replaced by civil courts. The effect was to allow trials to serve as platforms for anti-government propaganda. Carter pressured Iran to permit "free assembly", which encouraged and fostered fundamentalist anti-government rallies.

Moreover, within a year of the Shah's ouster, Iran on its western flank was locked into the Iran-Iraq War, in which the U.S. sided with secular Iraq and its military dictator Saddam Hussein.

In retrospect, the Iran-Iraq War would never have occurred had Jimmy Carter not weakened the Shah's regime. This conflict cost the two nations more than 500,000 lives, including thousands of Iranians k**led by Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons. The Iran-Iraq war triggered the rise of Saddam Hussein as a major power whose invasion of Kuwait was repelled by Desert Storm. The United States refrained from deposing Saddam Hussein in a continuation of the Desert Storm operation out of concern that the resulting "power vacuum" would be filled by Iran's Ayatollahs.

Thus Jimmy Carter's misguided busybody implementation of western human rights policies in a nation he did not understand, not only indirectly led to the o*******w of the Shah of Iran, but also paved the way for the loss of more than 600,000 lives, Iran's dictatorial rule by Ayatollahs, the incredibly bloody Iran-Iraq War, Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait and Desert Storm, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and subsequently, the mass murder of 3,000 Americans and the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.

The British government and its MI6 intelligence agency also heightened the Shah's precariousness. The government-controlled BBC presented Iranians with a dossier of twenty hour newscasts detailing the location of all anti-Shah demonstrations and consistent interviews with the exiled outcast Ayatollah Khomeini, making a tyrannical, fundamentalist, religious scholar few Iranians knew about into an overnight sensation.

When the Shah was unable to meet the Carter Administration and British demands, the Carter Administration reportedly ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to stop $4 million per year in funding to religious Mullahs who then became outspoken and vehement opponents of the Shah. Unfortunately, the Shah's efforts to defuse the volatile situation in Iran failed, despite the grant even of free and democratic e******ns. Confronted with lack of US support and unleashed Mullah fury, the Shah of Iran fled the country.

Subsequent to the Carter Administration's ill-conceived foreign policy initiative, Iran is now a dungeon. Ayatollah Khomeini's dictatorship executed the Shah's prisoners, predominantly c*******t militants, along with more than 20,000 pro-Western Iranians. Women were sent back into servitude. Citizens were arrested merely for owning satellite dishes that could tune to Western programs.

Iran has no shortage of oil in the ground or cash in hand.

Its oil reserves are estimated at second only to Saudi Arabia's, and Iran is OPEC's fourth-biggest producer of crude.

What Iran lacks are sufficient refineries to keep pace with its thirst for fuel. Iran is almost fully dependent on trucks to move goods. The number of cars is rising each year as drivers from the baby boom decade after the 1979 Islamic Revolution take the wheel.

Iran imports more than 40 percent of its gasoline and diesel needs. It comes mostly from the Middle East but also from as far away as Venezuela.

Iran has nurtured and expanded its military and terrorist activities, including the development of nuclear weapons, at the expense of such basic expenditures as the development of it's own refineries, so how efficiently and for what length could they sustain a war with the U.S.?

The Iranian parliament has now been dutifully chanting "Death to America," for five decades, but it is doubtful that the majority of the people feel this way, as they long for their own freedom from the oppressive Ayatollahs.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Hahahaha....now that was funny

kemmer

Finally something willy can understand.

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

I agree, but I just can't bring myself to apply the vile tactics the democrats and other l*****t use, even in defense of our great President. I guess I'm just too nice a guy.

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

Dittos from me, as well, Nanci. Thanks!

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

Oh, come on, wolf. Don't be shy. Tell us how you really feel.

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

I guess you don't, but then few care what YOU say, either.
As for the post you are referencing, he is 100% right, which is probably what ticks you off.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Where ya been kemmy?

kemmer

It amazes me how goofs like you clamp on to rubbish like that original post. Takes all kinds, I guess.

kemmer

An upscale ranch in Montana, and my beach house. Why? Miss me?
Awww...

Lgal

Some of your points were right on but some were as stupid as I have ever heard! You have the soul of trump who I am sure would get rid of you and anyone that crosses him by not agreeing with some of his idiocies. I too am a Jew who is also a retired police Lt. I also believe in the second amendment BUT NOT WHERE AUTOMATIC or SEMI AUTOMATIC WEAPONS ARE CONCERNED. I am also a firm believer that trump is a liar without any regard for any bodies feelings but his own. As far as confederate statues, these people broke away from the U.S. in order to preserve s***ery,they are NOT HEROS they are people who tried to over throw the United States that is called treason.
So go on believing wh**ever about the fool in the White House but when YOU are dissatisfied with something and want to protest just watch your ass when the FEDERAL troops show up even though the CONSTITUTION absolutely forbids its use against AMERICAN CITIZENS. If you read the news today you will see that DACA even though the SUPREME COURT sent a verdict about it trump doesn't care and is again trying to get rid of these kids,so he even goes against the Supreme Court, when will this crap stop? You may be his next victim!
Have a nice day.

Iliamna1

Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that Federal troops can't be used against domestic enemies. Please cite the Article and section if you can find it. It isn't there, goofball.