I know this is a little bit old but I'm just gonna say it anyway because it seemed like a good idea then and now (even though now it's too late because it's over.) Iraq...USA...what do they have in common??? Well they're both enemies with Iran! So US should've collaborated with Saddam, then the US and Saddam should've went over to Iran, taught them a lesson, and when the lesson was over, we should've turned our backs on Saddam. I wanna know what you people think about that idea, again, even though it's years late ........

We fooled around with this idea for years, and I believe we may have even sent weapons to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war (though we were privately funding Iran to get our hostages released) but we never planned full scale attacks.

God... President Carter should have sent a conventional fighting force to Iran to get those hostages out. If it weren't for Carter, we'd still have great relations with Iran... Here's one thing that makes a good president... DON'T BE A PACIFIST. So why couldn't that idea have worked?

Originally Posted by Tovarish1

God... President Carter should have sent a conventional fighting force to Iran to get those hostages out. If it weren't for Carter, we'd still have great relations with Iran... Here's one thing that makes a good president... DON'T BE A PACIFIST. So why couldn't that idea have worked?

A conventional army to get the hostages out? You mean launch a full scale invasion and take apart Iran and hope by the time troops got to Tehran there was actually something left of the hostages?

Originally Posted by Tovarish1

God... President Carter should have sent a conventional fighting force to Iran to get those hostages out. If it weren't for Carter, we'd still have great relations with Iran... Here's one thing that makes a good president... DON'T BE A PACIFIST. So why couldn't that idea have worked?

A full scale army? Wouldn't the Iranians be covering the US with love now!

Well yeah I left out a detail. Maybe Green Berets to rescue hostages maybe DEVGRU, but while the hostages are being rescued yeah, sure, launch an invasion of unconventional Marines and Soldiers.

Actually the did launch a rescue mission but it failed to reach the embassy where the hostages were being held.

Read up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw

Look up Desert One as that was the code name of the refeulling point they set up in Iran. It's where things went irreversably south.

Yeah... Carter was definitely a pacifist when it came to that ordeal.

Originally Posted by Tovarish1

Yeah... Carter was definitely a pacifist when it came to that ordeal.

Did you even read about what happened?