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Originally Posted by spence
If you remember, after 9/11, and at the start of the Afghan war, Iran was actually helping the United States as they wanted to curb the flow of opium (ok, and perhaps punk Sunni Islam in the process).
Then they became a gold member in the new "Axis of Evil" and the moderate president was thrown out in favor of that wacko Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
This is perhaps one of the most important and underreported bylines of the WOT, and a strategic failure of the Bush Administration.
-spence
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Also Iran was pretty annoyed with the refugees pouring out of Afghanistan running away from both the Soviets before them then the Taliban. They had a dog in BOTH fights. Its just that most revisionists would rather the "axis of evil" not look like they were helping.
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