Oh yeah... also, I don't know why you would consider the Shah of Iran to have been any better for the Iranians than the Ayatollahs. The Shah was a brutal dictator of the Saddam school of dictatorship (and he was intalled into his position of power by the US through a CIA backed coup, which crushed the fledgeling democracy that had only recently been formed in Iran).

So that makes the US' grandstanding about "making the world safe for democracy" pretty laughable and totally hypocritical.