Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site tty3b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mgnetp!ltuxa!tty3b!mjk From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Context of the Debate Message-ID: <510@tty3b.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 15:13:55 EDT Article-I.D.: tty3b.510 Posted: Thu Sep 20 15:13:55 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 20:09:45 EDT References: <1052@ihuxm.UUCP> <1866@ucbvax.ARPA><1316@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: Teletype Corp., Skokie, Ill Lines: 16 From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak): >But Sophie, consider this: don't >you think that (the Shah) was probably the best ruler Iran ever had, >and is the best that could be hoped for today? The Shah was installed in a coup that overthrew an elected government in Iran. It is widely believed that this coup was orchestrated by the CIA; it is rather difficult to prove these things, but in any event an elected government was overthrown by a tyrant who murdered thousands of his own people to stay in power. Just who the hell are you to say who is "probably the best ruler Iran ever had," anyway? Mike Kelly