that really showed how fast time flies. Argo is about the hostage crisis in Iran, 33 years ago, and has a bit of history at the the beginning, that most of us have forgotten, as in WHY the Iranian people were SO pissed off at Americans. In 1953, the popularly elected president of Iran was replaced by the Shah of Iran, in a coup directed and financed by the CIA and the US, to protect America's Big Oil interests, much the same way Saddam Hussein was installed in Iraq. The shah, like Hussein, was a despot who tyrannized the people and looted the treasury. When he was overthrown, in a populist revolution, he fled to the US, but the Iranians wanted to put him on trial. Hence, the Iranian mobs took out their anger on the US embassy and it's workers. Argo, based on a true story, tells how Hollywood helped smuggle six Americans back home, with a fake movie. Good flick that explained a lot about why 'they hate us' over there, and brought back many memori...
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Four years of more Republican rule we'll be a 3rd world power for certain. We already lag behind China as it is. With all this outsourcing to other countries, we've all but given up our job market here in the U.S., except for the CEOs. Blue collar workers are a minority. Why do Conservatives believe changing one Republican for another is going to make a difference? Radical changes in the Democatic process is needed: no more Electorical College; no more delegates or super delegates; a moratorium on time limits for candidates to stump for votes; and most importantly, every vote counts in November elections for President. If that had happended in 2000, there would have been no Prez Bush!!!