Why do people seem to forget that Iran was once a good Government but America deposed them and replaced with..?

Many are not old enough to remember Iran having a good government. I don't.

It wasn't about oil from the standpoint of America, but mostly about the cold war and containing communism. It was actually President Eisenhower who signed off on the plan. Britain and the USSR had been meddling in Iranian affairs since the early 1940's during WWII. They feared Iran's shah at that time was colluding with the Germans, forced his removal and replaced him with his son Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlavi. Prime Minister Mosaddeq was suspected of being a communist sympathizer by the CIA. He wanted to nationalize the oil industry in Iran which was also supported by the communist party in Iran. It was the British who were PO'd about the oil not the US because Britain thought they owned the rights to Iranian oil fields.

...well, did you forget the more recent overthrow, which landed us with the current Islamist government?

Learning lessons from history is important and all, but in terms of understanding the world today, the later overthrow is a bit more significant.

No, it's not that they forgot, it's just that it's very *inconvenient*. It is far easier to focus on something else to redirect criticism about things we'd rather not talk about.

You should really learn your history a little better than that.

We voted for Bush twice!

Excellent point. We made a whoopsies in our attempt to control things.

quite correct another good example od US meddling in things they have no business in