Iran Again Holds Hostages-Bush and the GOP
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A generation ago, the Iranian hostage crisis cost Jimmy Carter and the
Democrats the White House. Now, 26 years later, another Iranian hostage
crisis threatens to do the same thing to George W. Bush and the
Republican Party.
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 1:42 p.m. ET April 12, 2006
April 12, 2006 - In 1979, young Islamic radicals (Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have been one of them) imprisoned 52 Americans
in Teheran for 444 humiliating days. Today, the whole world is
hostage-not only to Iran's fanaticism but, ironically, to
America's diminished power, and the president's diminished
standing, in the aftermath of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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