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Watergate, Iran Contra, the Monica Lewinski affair, or the mess in Bengazi?
Why?
Why?
Watergate, Iran Contra, the Monica Lewinski affair, or the mess in Bengazi?
Why?
Iran-Contra was horrible, but people still don't get that the whole process was put into motion in 1953 not with the hostages
In 1953?
That's when we help overthrow a democratically elected government in Iran and replace it with a Dictator called the Shah
Voters should have to put their birthdate next to their names. I suspect that those who came AFTER Watergate really do not understand how huge and devastating it actually was. Watergate dwarfs everything else on that list.
teapot dome didn't make the list?
out of those chosen, watergate was probably the most historically significant, with Iran contra being right up there, too.
Oh.
By the time Ollie North and Co. got around to selling arms to Iran, the Shaw was gone, wasn't he? Wasn't Iran considered an enemy of the United States?
Teapot Dome was before my time. I don't remember it.
What is it that makes watergate the most historically significant? As I recall, it was a coverup of a burglary, involving the president. Certainly, the POTUS being involved in such a thing is a scandal, but how was it bigger than the others?
Correct, but why did the clergy get power to begin with? Because they fed off of the resentment towards the Shah and the United States. They gained popularity in Iran because they dared to go against a brutal dictator. We set up a government to be friendly towards us while at the same time suppressing the people of Iran. Iranians didn't like that at all and went to anyone who would oppose and fight....it happened to be a group that was far more hostile to us then the original democratically elected government happened to be.
It is the same thing that is happening in Egypt right now. We set up Mubarak and he was a suppressive dictator (though I don't believe he was as brutal as the Shah in Iran) and now we're faced with a government that is not very friendly towards us.
We created this by propping up dictators and suppressive governments.
Teapot Dome was before my time. I don't remember it.
What is it that makes watergate the most historically significant? As I recall, it was a coverup of a burglary, involving the president. Certainly, the POTUS being involved in such a thing is a scandal, but how was it bigger than the others?
Watergate, Iran Contra, the Monica Lewinski affair, or the mess in Bengazi?
Why?
Teapot Dome was before my time. I don't remember it.
What is it that makes watergate the most historically significant? As I recall, it was a coverup of a burglary, involving the president. Certainly, the POTUS being involved in such a thing is a scandal, but how was it bigger than the others?
From my understanding, Watergate set two important precedents. First was that presidents are not above the law. Second was a championing of the press as a check on elected leaders.