Reagan/Iran arms deal:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxQ9DqDaXBU
Video shows Bush 1 paid millions and armed Iran to keep US hostages an additional 76 days to affect outcome of Reagan election..
2007-09-11 09:44:46 · 16 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I heard this back in 1980. It is ridiculous...............
2007-09-11 09:51:52 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 0⤊ 7⤋
Sorry, I couldn't watch the video (very slow Internet connection) but I think you're referring to the 'October Surprise Conspiracy'. Wikipedia is a good place to start for general info and links if you want to dig deeper:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy
Just got to watch Democracy Now! recorded Monday and guess what... (from transcript)
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/10/1518224
AMY GOODMAN: Do you think there was a plan made by the -- by President Reagan before he was president, since the hostages were released on his inauguration day?
JIMMY CARTER: I don’t know. I’ve seen books written about it, and I’ve talked to people that claim that that’s true. But I’ve never alleged that that was true. And I doubt that if any of that did occur, my own personal belief is that President Reagan was not personally involved.
"October Surprise" Archive
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile.html
All 52 hostages were returned safely instead of in body bags. At least when Carter 'stayed the course', lives were SAVED!
2007-09-11 20:41:06 · answer #2 · answered by sagacious_ness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
particular, the Carter element is actual, in a feeling. however, Bush grew to become into hardly the reason for the Arab hatred (which even it incredibly is not unavoidably actual, not all Arab international places hate us; UAE, Kuwait, Jordan? etc.) That hatred is going lower back from Clinton, and probably into Bush Senior. flow lower back and count style the assaults released against us under Clinton, Khobar? the 1st WTC? The Cole? The South African Embassies? As for Carter, collectively as i do unlike him (particularly as a former president), the Hostage disaster grew to become into the end results of a metamorphosis in management in Iran (to the final of my memory). Little to do by way of fact persons strikes. yet a reliable element all the comparable.
2016-10-10 09:47:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I definitely would not denounce the suggestion as false, but yet i would also take it with a grain of salt.
Why?
because much of the evidence during the Iran contra scandal was destroyed or witheld, preventing any chance of denouncing suggestions that this was the case, while also destroying evidence that would prove otherwise.
Ollie north was following orders of a traitor. I leave it up to you to decide who that traitor was.
2007-09-11 17:53:08 · answer #4 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The stench of corruption has polluted your nation for a very long time. Wake up. Your governments past and present Republican and Democratic have been corrupted. The dodgyness surrounding your political institutions is unbelievable. Which is precisely why some people find it so hard to comprehend.
2007-09-11 10:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
That they did so was revealed in all its glory during the iran contra scandal.
Reagans people sent the Iranians a cake with a gold key, in thanks.
It's a matter of history, proven. Your Ollie North is a traitor.
2007-09-11 09:57:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
I don't doubt it.I always thought it was strange that the hostages left Iranian air space as he was being sworn in!
2007-09-11 10:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by honestamerican 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It worked!
Dems lost 90% of the electoral votes to Reagan in the 2 presidential elections.
Will Dems ever get over that sound defeat? Doesn't seem so.
2007-09-11 09:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by junglejoe 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Given the economy and National sentiment and low approval ratings of Carter, Reagan didn't need to keep the hostages in Iran.
2007-09-11 09:54:05 · answer #9 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 1⤊ 7⤋
LOL I was in 7th grade and realized that there was some kind of coincidence there. Who cares? He pulled out of Lebanon as well was he getting his marching orders from the terrorists. He played to win and won with alot less death.
2007-09-11 10:12:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Just a little correction -- the election was in 1980 and not 1979 .
And I don't believe a word of it .
Think about it . . . For what you're saying to be true , that would mean that Iran was gonna release them anyway and that was never the case .
2007-09-11 09:50:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 7⤋