Thread: US backing Egyptian uprising?
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Old 01-31-2011, 10:33   #18
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Originally Posted by Dusty View Post
Welp, we lost Iran during the Carter administration, and Egypt during this one. Stellar.
We lost Iran well before Carter. 1953, if not before.

We lost Egypt when we insisted on backing a a guy for so long who was never going to allow elections.
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