Chris Matthews: Are We Going To Democratize Iran After What We Did in ’52?

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MATTHEWS: “By the way, you asked about how this big fight with Iran began. Well, it didn't begin in '79. I was there as a speechwriter to the president. I know how it felt. It was terrible. But it didn't begin in '79, it began in '52, when Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA went over there and knocked off their legitimately elected government with Mosaddegh and put in the Shah, we put in a monarchy. Is that what America stands for? Monarchies? Yes, that's what we did. So to talk about democratizing, I'm not even sure anybody's talking about that yet. Are we going to democratize Iran after what we did in '52? Send them in the other direction?”