....before the propeller beany Republicans took office and deregulated the energy industry. The airline industry was the best in the world, until the propeller beany in chief and idol, Ronnie where's my nap Reagon deregulated that. Pan Am went bakrupt because the propeller beany oracle Reagan shoeboxed the Vncennes into a choked air space speaking arabic and announced we're taking over air traffic control in the gulf. The impossible metrics lead to the accidental shootdown of an Iranian airliner. The arabs got even and state sacntioned terrorism got the Libian secret service to arrange the shootdown of Pan Am 103 with diplomats, delta force members and a whole slew of governement employees heading home for christmas. Americans never made the connection between their election decisions and the cause and effect that the Republican elephants are creating in the china shop of international and domestic affairs.

Bring back energy regulation, like it was when Clinton was in office. Direct the department of energy to create a clear energy plan for the future, and leverage the communal power of the country to help entrepreneurs etc to get us there. Like we did in the space race. Problem solved. But first, hang every Republican from the nearest treee, for treason.

intersurfa:

....before the propeller beany Republicans took office and deregulated the energy industry. The airline industry was the best in the world, until the propeller beany in chief and idol, Ronnie where's my nap Reagon deregulated that. Pan Am went bakrupt because the propeller beany oracle Reagan shoeboxed the Vncennes into a choked air space speaking arabic and announced we're taking over air traffic control in the gulf. The impossible metrics lead to the accidental shootdown of an Iranian airliner. The arabs got even and state sacntioned terrorism got the Libian secret service to arrange the shootdown of Pan Am 103 with diplomats, delta force members and a whole slew of governement employees heading home for christmas. Americans never made the connection between their election decisions and the cause and effect that the Republican elephants are creating in the china shop of international and domestic affairs.

Carter's middle east policy of supporting the Shah of Iran worked out so much better in the long run. We backed Saddam because we were more afraid of the Ayatollah after he overthrew Carter's puppet gov't and now we're having a hell of a time cleaning up after that.

intersurfa:

Bring back energy regulation, like it was when Clinton was in office. Direct the department of energy to create a clear energy plan for the future, and leverage the communal power of the country to help entrepreneurs etc to get us there. Like we did in the space race. Problem solved. But first, hang every Republican from the nearest treee, for treason.

I know the details got lost in the fact that Ken Lay and GWB knew each other, but almost all of the criminal activity at Enron (and most of the big earnings falsification and corporate fraud that got uncovered in 2001 for that matter) was actually going on when Clinton was in office, not to mention the spike in energy prices and supply shortages which swept CA in 2000 (which most of the locals still figure was mostly due to malfeasance at Enron, although the state "deregulation" which was anything but deregulation is probably more at the root of it)

The Shah wasn't Carter's puppet. The Shah came to power in 1941. In 1953, the U.S. backed the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq. The Shah enjoyed U.S. support during the majority of his reign---support from Truman to Carter.

In fact, many on the right blame Carter for the fall of the Shah because Carter encouraged the Shah to loosen his autocratic rule and practice basic human rights. Carter eventually reluctanctly withdrew support for the Shah, which led to his outsting by a popular uprising that was, sadly, hijacked by religious fundamentalists.

When the Shah went into exile, his health rapidly deteriorated and he sought medical treatment in the U.S. Carter reluctanctly allowed him in, but asked him to leave soon after the treatment was complete. The decision to allow him into the U.S., though, angered the Mullahs in Iran and led to the hostage crisis there.

As an aside here, I highly recommend all to see the movie Persepolis. This is a brilliant tale of a young girl that experienced the excitement of the Iranian Revolution only to be overcome by the horrors of the rise of the Islamists.