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Originally Posted by Stealhead
I think we got them pretty good for 1979 when that US Navy ship accidentally shot down an Iranian Airliner in 1988 killing all 290 people on board.
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Accident versus deliberate action. Not the same thing.
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Ahmadinejad was in no way involved in the embassy take over in 1979.That misinformation can be explained in the statement by Platapus;
"It should also be a country that most citizens don't know much about so they will rely on the media for their propa... uh I mean information.
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Except that it's not the media who is saying this but the hostages themselves. Now call me crazy but I tend to believe them over you or the media and certainly over politically motivated CIA reports.
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With this line of thinking why not start the Civil War again I think we southerners owe you northerners for burning down Atlanta.
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Maybe you traitors should have thought about that before you tried to desert your country.
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The Japanese could say that they owe us the deaths of a few hundred thousand US citizens for the Japanese one killed by fire bombing in 44 and 45.
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Maybe the Japanese could say that if we were to ignore the fact that they brought it upon themselves by attacking us in the first place.
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Such ideas are very poor reasons to go to war in a modern world in particular.How many thousand Iranian and American soldiers must die to satisfy what is owed?
Some kid beat me in a fight when I was 10 years old I must track him down and beat him in hand to hand combat I owe him.
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Sorry but you loosing a childhood fight does not compare with an organized attack on sovereign American territory nor does it compare with the kidnapping and illegal detention of American diplomats. Many of the problems we have today stem from our weakness and inaction during that time.