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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What was your biggest challenge?
Why did you start this Blog?
Ask all your friends to write about what's important to them or their biggest concern. Then discuss....there's no discussion. Nobody has tenasity or however you spell it.
Unfortunately, I can only do political stuff so much, then it gets boring/repetitious. The Repub party makes me so upset I can't
believe people could support them, BUT, the Dems aren't much better. I think Obama is a good, intelligent man, caught in an impossible situation. My biggest challenge, these days? Making a breaking, 8 foot putt, for par, so I can win. or not lose, some $.
Just and idea though
p.s. I like it when yu tell stories of your mean cat
-hb-