Hayden: Killing Americans Is Iran's Policy

CIA Director's Comments Are The Most Brazen Denunciation Of Iran From A U.S. Official To Date

(AP)  CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date.

Hayden made the statement in response to a student question while delivering the Landon Lecture at Kansas State University.

"It is my opinion, it is the policy of the Iranian government, approved to highest level of that government, to facilitate the killing of Americans in Iraq," Hayden said. "Just make sure there's clarity on that."

In recent weeks, U.S. officials have ratcheted up their complaints that Iran is increasing its efforts to supply weapons and training to militants in Iraq.

Military commanders in Baghdad are expected to roll out evidence of that support soon, including date stamps on newly found weapons caches showing that recently made Iranian weapons are flowing into Iraq at a steadily increasing rate.

Another senior military official said the evidence will include mortars, rockets, small arms, roadside bombs and armor-piercing explosives - known as explosively formed penetrators or EFPs - that troops have discovered in caches in recent months. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the evidence has not yet been made public, said dates on some of the weapons were well after Tehran signaled late last year that it was scaling back aid to insurgents.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said the U.S. prefers to resolve the issue through other pressures, but that it has the combat capability to strike Tehran, if necessary.

Hayden also said the recent Iraqi offensive in the southern Iraqi city of Basra should stand as a clear indication to Iraq's neighbors that it intends to be a credible force in the region. He added that such activities boost the credentials of the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government.

During his 40 minute lecture, Hayden said China was likely to be a political and economic competitor by the middle of the century but should not be treated as an "inevitable enemy" of the United States.

He warned, however, that China likely would be viewed as an adversary if Beijing uses its growing global influence in support of its own narrow interests at the cost of peace and economic stability.

"If Beijing begins to accept greater responsibility for the health of the international system - as all global powers should - we will remain on a constructive, even if competitive, path. If not, the rise of China begins to look more adversarial," he said.

China's military buildup, which is intended both to counter U.S. military capabilities and to intimidate an independence-minded Taiwan, is as much about projecting an image of strength and "great power status" as it is to gain a tactical or strategic military advantage, he said.

"After two centuries of perceived Western hegemony, China is determined to flex its muscle," Hayden said.

He also predicted continued tension between the United States and Europe, an old alliance now strained by different views about terrorism.

"It is not yet clear when or if the United States and Europe will come to share the same views of 21st-century threats - as we did for the last half of the 20th century - and then forge a common approach to security," Hayden said.

The United States considers itself a nation at war, in pursuit of terrorists wherever they are, he said.

"In much of Europe, terrorism is seen differently: primarily as an internal, law enforcement problem, and solutions are focused more narrowly on securing the homeland," Hayden said.

Sharp population growth over the coming decades, particularly in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, will strain resources, increase immigration and could result in an increase in violent extremism and civil unrest, he said.

The populations of Afghanistan, Liberia, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo are expected to triple in 40 years, and those of Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Yemen will more than double, he said.

Demographic changes, a rising China, and the evolving trans-Atlantic alliance will shape American security and foreign policy through the middle of this century, Hayden said. He called on Americans to learn the languages and cultures needed to meet the new challenges, in the same way the United States developed its Soviet expertise during the Cold War.

"Large parts of the world - including those that will hold more sway in the future - do not share all of our ideas," Hayden said. "While we cherish and live our own values, we must know and appreciate those of others."

[boatdocster]

Hayden warned, however, that China likely would be viewed as an adversary if Beijing uses its growing global influence in support of its own narrow interests at the cost of peace and economic stability.

Yep, that''s only OK for the USA...

[kansas1946]

Looks like the Bush scare-mongering propogandists are in full swing. I guess is scared if he gets out of office without starting another endless war, someone might forget his name. I guess he should have been worrying about Iran a long time ago, instead of starting his own private little political mess in Iraq. Worst president in the history of the US.

[boatdocster]

CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date.

Same policy the USA had to Russians that were in Afghanistan, and used Afghani "Freedom fighters" to do so...

Funny how two governments can do the exact the same thing, but for one it''s "Freedom Fighters"; if the other does so they are "Terrorists"...

50 years of failed foreign policy are coming home to the USA!

[blackyowe]

-Seems to me it George Bush''s Policy. They sure have been dying since he blasted his way into Bagdad like a damned fool.

[j-whitman]

What''s with Bush & these Elmer Fudd looking charicters ???

[j-whitman]

Someone needs to tell him it''s Iraqi''s & Saudi''s own Al Queda doing the killing

[veteran72]

I''ve said it before and I''ll say it again, is this guy a spittin'' image of the Gestapo Agent in Indiana Jones and the Lost Arc or what???....
(I swear, same beady-eyed, bald-headed, Neocon Nazi look of Pure Evil)....

[jerr11]

Hayden: Killing Americans Is Iran''s Policy



It''s the G W Bush''s policy too.

The score so far:

Bin Laden - 3000 Dead Americans

G W Bush - 4057 Dead Americans

Bush wins hands down!

Heckuva job, Liar-in-Chief!

[kissamaarse]

Hayden is just one more American ghoul, bowing to some unseen corporate masters, all about squeezing money from other. Another freakin'' SICK puppy.

[veteran72]

Posted by kansas1946 at 11:15 PM : Apr 30, 2008

NO! It is the Dum sheep who don''''t see no evil because they have wool pulled over their eyes. They don''''t hear either, because they are deaf'''' to the belching of war mongering threats by Neo-Hitler, Ahmadinejad of Iran, against Israel and America



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Posted by dumbshun at 12:39 AM : May 01, 2008
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Don''t worry. Shrub will make sure you''re drafted along with everyone else, dumbasss....

[arrestbush1]

"CIA Director Michael Hayden says Iran is deliberately killing Americans in Iraq and that it is the country''s official policy to do so. (AP)"


As an american, I don''t blaim them. If Iranians were running around on our land for so many years, I''d make it policy to start killing the invaders too. It''s common sense.

[godzilla-boy]

Posted by dumbshun at 12:39 AM : May 01, 2008

NO! It is the Dum sheep who don''''t see no evil because they have wool pulled over their eyes. They don''''t hear either, because they are deaf'''' to the belching of war mongering threats by Neo-Hitler, Ahmadinejad of Iran, against Israel and America

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I think that Israel can take care of itself. And I think that it''s about time to stop shaping our foreign policy solely around what the Israeli side wants. But then again, every candidate wants to win Florida.

[blackyowe]

These idots just want to bomb Iran before the election because it''s their last chance to get even. It could not be more clear. Bush wants to win one for the Gipper it seems but he will kill us all! These neo-cons have been fuming since the seventies and they can''t grow up or grow a brain....

[godzilla-boy]

Posted by dumbshun at 12:55 AM : May 01, 2008

IS IRAN, IRAQ?

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Well, the Persian Empire encompassed parts (if not all) of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and (YES) even Palestine! And please, TURN YOUR CAPS LOCK OFF!!!

[godzilla-boy]

Posted by dumbshun at 01:10 AM : May 01, 2008

This is the Logic the Dumb Sheep used in Late 30''''s...."So what if Europe is at war..." , "Britain will take care of itself.....", etc. Why, Chamberlain even signed a "PEACE TREATY" with Adolf Hitler!

What happened? Hitler used the peace traty to organize his nefracious activity and started WWII.

And the Dumb Sheep here still kept on saing "bah, bah..." ''''tis got nothing to do with us...

Till Pearl Harbor Kamakazee attack WOKE the Dumb Sheep!

If Israel gets attacked, I bet you anything it would be WWIII-the nuky one, and we may all go up in "Holy Smoke"!

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You''re Jewish, right?

The difference is that Britain in the 1930''s did not have nuclear weapons like Israel does now.

And isn''t Israel "attacked" almost daily with suicide bombers and homemade rockets? That seems to be the best the Arabs can do. How will another attack start WWIII? You''re not making sense.

[tbweb]

Hayden: Killing Americans Is Iran''s Policy

CIA Director''s Comments Are The Most Brazen Denunciation Of Iran From A U.S. Official To Date

If it''s Iran''s Policy to kill Americans then those responsible for that policy should pay, not the Iranian people, not the Iranian nation. Many inside of Iran and out don''t believe Iran would be so aggressively seeking nuclear weapons or Israels destruction if it were not for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. If Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were eliminated then many of these issues concerning Iran would go away, so it would seem the solution would be to remove Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and if that didn''t resolve these issues then war with Iran should be considered, but removing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would probably resolve many of the hostilities. The CIA had their shot at him when he brazenly visited the U.S., Hugo Chavez wasn''t that stupid! Removing Saddam instead of invading Iraq was probably the way to go too!

[shingles1]

"If Israel gets attacked, I bet you anything it would be WWIII-the nuky one, and we may all go up in "Holy Smoke"!
Posted by dumbshun"

Hey dumbshun - Israel is a nuclear power with plenty of nukes - not only that, they have the strongest military in the middle east - if they were to get attacked by Iran, they are perfectly free to bomb the heck out of Iran in response. They''re not a bunch of babies whose hands we need to hold.

We won the cold war against an enemy who had thousands of warheads pointed at our cities, yet here dumbshun wants us scream and cry and cower like little girls at a two bit nation (Iran) that doesn''t have a single nuclear weapon. What the heck is wrong with you bedwetters?

When you act like a bunch of scared pansies, the terrorists win.

[godzilla-boy]

Posted by dumbshun at 01:12 AM : May 01, 2008

WHAT YEAR IS IT?...Isnt it 2008?....Is Iran, Iraq? or Iraq, Iran?

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I was just making the point that arbitrary modern borders (including those drawn up by the United Nations in 1947) may not mean much to people who have lived in an area for thousands of years.

[trishab4]

... but removing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would probably resolve many of the hostilities. The CIA had their shot at him when he brazenly visited the U.S., Hugo Chavez wasn''''t that stupid! Removing Saddam instead of invading Iraq was probably the way to go too!
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Posted by tbweb at 01:24 AM : May 01, 2008

-tbweb, I don''t understand your hasting removal of Ahmedinejad from Power. This guy has been reinstated back in Power by the will of People. Isn''t that Democracy?

-All those policies by the radicals as you like to call them are simply a reaction to the Pressure of our country surrounding and isolating Iran in a stranded area. Iraq from the West, Afghanistan-Pakistan from the East, and more recently from Uzbekistan from the North... Not to mention the stranded isolation by our Navy from the Arabo-Persian Gulf. Menaces of attacks by ChiHuaHua-size (but expanding) Israel. Not to metion the actual aggressive economic sanctions by UN sought after by our Repukon ambassador to the UN. Our support to Saddam Hussein in his attack against Iran in 1977 etc... how would you expect Iran to react to all this menacing presence around it.

-More urgently, I''d remove this idiot in White house and his gangsteresque cronies and team who caused such havoc on the Planet.

[rudy654-2009]

We won the cold war against an enemy who had thousands of warheads pointed at our cities, yet here dumbshun wants us scream and cry and cower like little girls at a two bit nation (Iran) that doesn''''t have a single nuclear weapon. What the heck is wrong with you bedwetters?

When you act like a bunch of scared pansies, the terrorists win.


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Posted by shingles1 at 01:26 AM

Well said. Iran is a third world nation. They don''t have much, and the speed boats are a joke. The CIA knows this. Yet, are we going to see the same evidence Collin Powell produced at the UN? Yeah, that evidence that really wasn''t evidence, and was actually plagiarized from a British student? And will Russia and China just sit back and watch? OUr economy meanwhile will be plunged into the depths of despair. This all sounds like some screenplay about the dark side or something.

[rudy654-2009]

You''''re Jewish, right?

The difference is that Britain in the 1930''''s did not have nuclear weapons like Israel does now.

And isn''''t Israel "attacked" almost daily with suicide bombers and homemade rockets? That seems to be the best the Arabs can do. How will another attack start WWIII? You''''re not making sense.


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Posted by godzilla-boy at 01:22 AM

He''s not Jewish. He''s a Christian fundamentalist with a genocide spirit.

[trishab4]

Iran is not looking at COLD war! Wake -up from day-dreaming. Go and read what Ahmadine-jad is spewing! Then go and read your history books! Compare him to Adolf Hitler (read Mein Kemf)....maybe, your brain may get a ray of daylight...

Have you heard of "Forewarned is Forearmed"?

Ahmadinejad & Iran are stoking their nuke factories for a "HOT WAR", not a *******-n cold war! WAKE-UP!
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Posted by dumbshun at 01:44 AM : May 01, 2008

-You are just a dumb tin resounding the hits by the white house liars. Iran has been very open to collaboration with the Nuclear Inspectors of the UN IAEA. Not hiding anything from sight of the inspectors. Every time they reach a milestone they make a big noise for the world to look at them.

-Your psychotic and warmonger attitude is the exact type of reaction the Liars in whitehouse and wardrummers want to see in the American Population. You sound pitifully idiot! in oredr to Justify their warmonger policies toward Iran and many other Nations

[trishab4]

tin can, obviously

[trishab4]

Hayden is a piggy faced boy with a big handhole in the back. He does not need to think what they (ventriloquists) tell him to say, He just moves his jaws. And influencing Job done.

[tbweb]

-tbweb, I don''t understand your hasting removal of Ahmedinejad from Power. This guy has been reinstated back in Power by the will of People. Isn''t that Democracy?


Posted by trishab4 at 01:41 AM : May 01, 2008,,,

No, its not Democracy! Iran decides who gets to run in their elections, for example in the most recent Iranian elections no moderate Iranians were allowed to run, only hard liners! Thats not Democracy and not the will of the Iranian people, its the will of the ruling Mullahs!! Russia recently pulled the same stunt! I guess the appearance of Democracy is better than no Democracy at all.

[trishab4]

Thats not Democracy and not the will of the Iranian people, its the will of the ruling Mullahs!! Russia recently pulled the same stunt! I guess the appearance of Democracy is better than no Democracy at all.
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Posted by tbweb at 02:04 AM : May 01, 2008

-How big are chances to see the US Communist Party''s candidate run for presidency of the United States?

-Obama has be denying he was Muslim and the News Agencies and right wingers painted him as anti-American, Terrorist supporter etc... sapping his chances to win nominations, whereas the Senator Clinton who proved to be so corrupt would have made it? You still call it Democracy?

[G H M]

This is the same Bush and Cheney that attacked the wrong country? - they picked this guy so its hard to believe anything they say. this is Chicken little all over again - they are starting the fear stuff out again to get McCain elected. --- Here we go again - weapons of mass deception.

[trishab4]

Posted by dumbshun at 02:13 AM : May 01, 2008

-dumbshun: psychotic noisy tin can.

[veteran72]

Way past time to purge ALL dual-citizenship Israelis from our Government. They design our Foreign Policy to fight their Wars of Agression, and funnel $Billions$ of our Tax Dollars into their Treasury to purchase ever more WMD, that they in turn use to attack and murder their neighbors.
Time to end the ZOG.

[trishab4]

BRING BACK THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN
AND WATCH IRAN VAPORIZED!
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Posted by dumbshun at 02:18 AM : May 01, 2008

-Why don''t you invite him personnally? we''d have peace on this blog.

[shingles1]

dumbshun, you''re really a piece of work.
The only coward is the scared little boy who pees his pants worrying about how the evil boogieman Ahmadinejad is going to kill us all. Ahmadinejad doesn''t have any real power in Iran - the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Council do . That''s why the Bush Administration refused to make any sort of deal with Ahmadinejad''s predecessor, Khatami. Funny how we wouldn''t deal with the powerless Khatami, yet now the chickensh*ts are screaming their heads off about the new guy who occupies the same powerless position.

I do appreciate your comic book understanding of reality though.

Ahmadinejad is Hitler!!!
Ahmadinejad is Hitler!!!
I thought Saddam was the new Hitler. Or was that bin Laden who was the new Hitler. God, there are just so many "new Hitlers" out there!

Calling a powerless thug in a cheap suit who will probably get voted out of office in the next year''s election "the new Hitler" is a affront to the memory of the tens of millions who died during WWII and the Holocaust. You should be ashamed of yourself, dumbshun.

[downtowner97]

Iranians kill our troops one or two at a time, but have threatened to kill all Jews. I think we should let Israel handle this one. It used to be that the US was respected and feared, and Israel was hated, but now we''re on the hated list, so I think we can let Israel at least fight WITH us, if not in our place.

[ontheleft]

I think attacking Iran is a very unwise proposal. Diplomacy should always be tried before going to war. We did not do that with Iraq. Hans Blix was not finished with his inspections when the United States decided to go to war.

Iran has a military that will respond to a U.S attack. Our army can not afford to open up a new front in the war. We''d have to call up a draft to fight Iran. War could likely spread to other countries in the area. The cost would be very high in human lives and taxpayer dollars.

[tbweb]

-How big are chances to see the US Communist Party''s candidate run for presidency of the United States?

-Obama has be denying he was Muslim and the News Agencies and right wingers painted him as anti-American, Terrorist supporter etc... sapping his chances to win nominations, whereas the Senator Clinton who proved to be so corrupt would have made it? You still call it Democracy?

Posted by trishab4 at 02:10 AM : May 01, 2008,,,

Communist and Nazi''s run in U.S. elections all the time, the don''t get much support so you hardly hear about them. Even if Sen. Obama was a Muslim, so what, there is nothing wrong with being a moderate Muslim! We have elected Muslims in Congress! People say the word Muslim like its a disease or something, and in any case even if Sen. Obama was a Muslim previously, he is a Christian now, what matters is what a person is now. The Pope use to be a Nazi but not any more, should that disqualify him from being Pope? The United States is about F-R-E-E-D-O-M, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and tolerance of those things in others!

[ontheleft]

The majority of people in this country (57%) said that the war in Iraq was a mistake and that we should not have gone in there in the first place. This country is being run like a dictatorship, with a minority of war-happy people calling the shots. I think the invasion of Iraq was a costly unnecessary blunder. The only reason we are in Iraq right now is to prevent Iran from taking it over. We are stuck there.

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by dumbshun at 02:46 AM

If all you have is to call people cowards, rest assured that you are the coward, because I am sure that most anyone that you have called a coward today, could take you on in flat second and leave you whining to your mommy.

[rudy654-2009]

Get educated!


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Posted by dumbshun at 02:44 AM

Grow a brain, you caca for brains.

[trishab4]

Trash every other posts that doesn''''t mirror what is in your head? Is that a way to bring peace?
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Posted by dumbshun at 02:32 AM : May 01, 2008

-Look who is talking! DumbIdiot! My mother used to tell me the hollowest kettles are the noisiest! Luckily we have no sound effect on this blog.

Hmmmmmm. Let me get this right.

We sell and give weapons to Israel, but we''re not helping them to kill Palestinian women and children.

Iran sells or gives weapons to "insurgents" and they are helping them to kill Americans?

Doesn''t that sound two sided?

Maybe we should stop selling and giving Israel weapons - after all, we wouldn''t want anyone to think that we were killing Palestinian women and children.

dumbshun wrote:

"ISRAEL WILL, YOU BET!....THe question for you is: "What are friends for?""

That''s what GW Bush was saying to Ted Haggard as he unzipped his fly.

[ontheleft]

I''m wondering why we don''t have control over the border between Iran and Iraq. Then again, we don''t have control over our own borders.

[ramos937]

I am reminded of the events leading up to the Iraq war when the Bush administration went to war regardless of the facts. We need some independent verification somehow.

[brianbwb-2009]

"CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq,"

While American policy is to kill Iraqis in Iraq. If we weren''t occupying the Iraqis, while preparing lies to justify war against Iranians, they would feel no need to kill Americans.

[veteran72]

I am reminded of the events leading up to the Iraq war when the Bush administration went to war regardless of the facts. We need some independent verification somehow.


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Posted by ramos937 at 04:31 AM : May 01, 2008
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Colin Powell plans on presenting satellite Recon photos of mobile yellow cake labs** to the UN.*


*(He also has pictures of them serving it to some
Iranian children with ice cream on top, but sadly,
those won''t be included in the report;0)

**(We call them "Mr. Frosty" trucks here in the US)

[tfheringer]

I am sorry to have to say this, but Iran is a threat a major one. We should not have gone into Iraq to take out Saddam, because he was the counter balance to Iran. Now we get to pay the consequences of interfering in a sovereign nations affairs. So now what do we do? I suggest bombing Iran till there is nothing left, but a pile of dust.

[tfheringer]

mcdazz, let me get this strait you are saying you do not believe there were weapons in Iraq, but you do believe that their are weapons given to Israel? How dumb, you believe everything that the media says about Israel, but do not believe everything your told about Iran. None of what you hear in the media about Israel is true. Israel is only fighting to stay alive it is the Palestinians that are the treat to peace.

[ahrats]

If You can prove that Iran is supplying weapons and training to keep the insugency up in Iraq, then bring out the evidence. Once out in the open, then you can justify doing surgical air strikes againts Irans weapon making facilities and nuke plants. You do not have to invade Iran just give them a object lesson. Now with China, they are a growing economy which will compete against the U.S. for markets and power. I would not call them an enemy just a competitor. China has never threated to attack this country like the Soviet Union to spread communisum around the world. Look at communisum now its a fading idea and was destoryed by is inherent corruption between the haves and have-nots. The world is slowly becomming one economy with each country wanting its fair share.

[mcvet]

What is wrong with these people and the Bootlickers who defend them? Iran hasn''t attacked us... has NEVER attacked us. Iran had NOTHING to do with those who did attack us, in fact they are the sworn enemy of those who attacked us. If we''re going to go around the world starting a war with everyone who doesn''t like us, we''re going to run out of troops REAL fast. Sieg Heil Bush

[mcvet]

I am sorry to have to say this, but Iran is a threat a major one. We should not have gone into Iraq to take out Saddam, because he was the counter balance to Iran. Now we get to pay the consequences of interfering in a sovereign nations affairs. So now what do we do? I suggest bombing Iran till there is nothing left, but a pile of dust.


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Posted by tfheringer at 06:35 AM : May 01, 2008
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Maybe you are right... maybe you are not. We honestly don''t know because NO ONE with a brain believes ANYTHING the Bush Administration Says. It''s not but a few months now until we can replace that serious piece of human trash... then we can get a better view of the facts and issues. Sieg Heil Bush

[jackknows]

to Mcvet...did you forget about the iranian hostages? they were some of the first to attack us.