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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan only speak for myself but it was wonderful to see President Carter
walking upright to his seat.
Michelle Obama looks lovely - as usual.
Gobama!!
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)about the education system back in the day.
He will be 89 come October 1.
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)Great humanitarian.
Setting the record straight re King's support for him and the votes he delivered for Carter.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Go Jimmy Go!
Bubba Clinton up now
ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)I really, really miss Democrats like him. A man before his time... I posted this on another thread not knowing I had missed his speech.
We NEED more like him today! He does stand up for "we the people" and for me he was treated oh so badly by oh so many! A man with so much heart and one who gives so much back. He has had my respect since the day I voted for him way back when.
Where have they ALL GONE???
live love laugh
(13,124 posts)UTUSN
(70,725 posts)kpete thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023541943
CIA Hand in an American Coup?
by Robert Parry | August 27, 2013 - 6:31am
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The apparent 1980 plot to undermine Carter by sabotaging his negotiations with Iran over the fate of 52 American hostages would have been pulled off by rogue CIA officers collaborating with the Republican presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan (and his running mate George H.W. Bush), without the knowledge of Carter and CIA Director Stansfield Turner.
It would have been the work of what legendary CIA officer Miles Copeland described to me as the CIA within the CIA, the inner-most circle of powerful intelligence figures who felt they understood the strategic needs of the United States better than its elected leaders. These national security insiders believed Carters starry-eyed faith in American democratic ideals represented a grave threat to the nation.
Carter really believed in all the principles that we talk about in the West, Copeland told me in an interview in 1990, several months before his death. As smart as Carter is, he did believe in Mom, apple pie and the corner drug store. And those things that are good in America are good everywhere else.
Carter, I say, was not a stupid man. But in Copelands view, Carter had an even worse flaw: He was a principled man.
Copeland was one of the CIA officers who participated in the 1953 coup against Mossadegh, but he said he and other old CIA Iran hands were mostly on the outside looking in when Carter was targeted in 1980.
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(This is ONE AMAZING Eye Opener-long, so I think you need to read the whole thing, for a better understanding of the CIA)
http://www.smirkingchimp
malaise
(269,157 posts)Thanks for the link
We should have a vindication celebration for his 89th birthdayTHey're playing the full King speech with limited commercials on M$NBComcast now.
M$NBComcast deserves lots of praise for the 50th anniversary coverage
malaise
(269,157 posts)not working
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Thanks
Who were the rogue CIA men in Benghazi?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Unlike some others I could think of who would do well just clearing brush on their pig farm.
Edit to correct a neglectful oversight on my part ... I admire Roz just as much for her constant involvement.
malaise
(269,157 posts)An independent man indeed.