Best News I have heard out of Iraq in a long time

[Evermore]

Tikk the US has been messing in SE asia and the middle east for 60 to 70 years. We only started backing the israelis when the shah was thrown out...

And people wonder why they hate us..

I'm sorry that is outright wrong. While historically the US has supported Israel vocally we hadn't done much more then that until the Kennedy administration in 1962 when we started selling them major weapons systems starting with the hawk anti aircraft systems. By contrast the Shah was not exiled until 1979.

that statement does need some adjustment but it is not totally inaccurate. The us started backing the shah's in exchange for the shah's allowing a coalition of US and British and a few other countries run their oil interests.

[Drem]

the adjustment needed is that we've been backing israel since 48 and we've been in the middle east bcz we were trying to contain the soviet union as well as get a hold of the persian gulf.

the claim that we've been in SE asia and the middle east for 60 - 70 years is right