Did you guys just see the those two Arab guys? (forget the names) bad mouthing US troops? I'm sure any US soldier watching the show at the time had their blood pressure go through the roof, mine did.
The guy's name was "Hassan" - new heel. Remember how the Iron Sheik got booed during the Iran thing? I don't think this guy has the charisma of the Sheik, though...
Vince McMahon has never been shy to use political and world events and hatred around the world for the U.S. as means to promote angles. During the first Gulf War in 1991, they had Sgt. Slaughter turn heel by saying he was supporting Saddam Huissan and Iraq. And of course now they have La Resistance waving French Flags in the ring and bad mouthing America every week. And one of the most famous, who can forget back in the mid 1980's during the peak of the cold war, you had the Iron Shiek and Nikolai Volkoff. The Iron Shiek was an Iranian wrestler coming down to the wring every week and waving an Iranian flag and screaming about how great the Iotola was. And Volkoff always POed whatever arena he was in by singing the Soviet national anthem before his matches.