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In reply to the discussion: I don't like conservatives. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)77. Thanks for making clear what I did not, Bogart.
"Hate the sin, but love the sinner" is how I believe it goes.
Regarding phony Liberals: They are Quislings. Take Lee Hamilton:
GOP Chutzpah on Iran
Robert Parry
ConsortiumNews.com
Apparently hoping to embarrass President Clinton in an election year, the Republican-controlled House approved a special investigation into his "green light" for Iran to ship arms to Bosnia's embattled Muslims in 1994. The 225-203 vote, largely along party lines, was expected.
But what was striking was how the Republicans framed the inquiry. Over and over, they justified the new probe by making allusions to the 1992 investigation into the so-called October Surprise case -- the long-standing charge that the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign sabotaged President Carter's negotiations to free 52 American hostages then held in Iran. Carter's failure to gain the hostages' freedom assured Ronald Reagan's victory.
In pressing for a special task force to conduct the Bosnia inquiry, Republicans acted as if the Democrats had aggressively pursued the October Surprise investigation for political gain in 1992. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
The Democrats, led by the accommodating Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., let the inquiry be run by former Reagan-Bush attorneys. The chief investigator, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., also was both the lawyer for the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (which was implicated in the October Surprise case) and a law partner of former Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., who was chairman of the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign.
As we now know from documents recovered from the 1992 investigation, the Barcella team "debunked" the October Surprise charges by adopting bogus alibis for Reagan's campaign director, William J. Casey, and by concealing reams of incriminating evidence. (For details, see The October Surprise X-Files: The Hidden Origins of the Reagan-Bush Era.)
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http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/edit8.html
PS: I don't like hypocrites, either.
Regarding phony Liberals: They are Quislings. Take Lee Hamilton:
GOP Chutzpah on Iran
Robert Parry
ConsortiumNews.com
Apparently hoping to embarrass President Clinton in an election year, the Republican-controlled House approved a special investigation into his "green light" for Iran to ship arms to Bosnia's embattled Muslims in 1994. The 225-203 vote, largely along party lines, was expected.
But what was striking was how the Republicans framed the inquiry. Over and over, they justified the new probe by making allusions to the 1992 investigation into the so-called October Surprise case -- the long-standing charge that the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign sabotaged President Carter's negotiations to free 52 American hostages then held in Iran. Carter's failure to gain the hostages' freedom assured Ronald Reagan's victory.
In pressing for a special task force to conduct the Bosnia inquiry, Republicans acted as if the Democrats had aggressively pursued the October Surprise investigation for political gain in 1992. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
The Democrats, led by the accommodating Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., let the inquiry be run by former Reagan-Bush attorneys. The chief investigator, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., also was both the lawyer for the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (which was implicated in the October Surprise case) and a law partner of former Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., who was chairman of the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign.
As we now know from documents recovered from the 1992 investigation, the Barcella team "debunked" the October Surprise charges by adopting bogus alibis for Reagan's campaign director, William J. Casey, and by concealing reams of incriminating evidence. (For details, see The October Surprise X-Files: The Hidden Origins of the Reagan-Bush Era.)
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http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/edit8.html
PS: I don't like hypocrites, either.
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I bought that book but just the chapters chilled my blood. I gave it away to a young person to read.
freshwest
Dec 2011
#19
Conservatism's most recent champion actually stated that "Money trumps peace."
Octafish
Dec 2011
#63
How Ayn Rand Seduced Generations of Young Men and Helped Make the U.S. Into a Selfish, Greedy Nation
Octafish
Dec 2011
#70
We have two parties. They have their own, let them stay there and reform it. I think we
sabrina 1
Dec 2011
#93
Personally, I try not to denigrate anyone; however, I don't have a whole lot of patience
Bogart
Dec 2011
#68
It has nothing to do with where I am going. Per your request, I "expanded on that."
Bogart
Dec 2011
#96
Just to be clear, I'm a Kennedy Democrat. Eleanor Roosevelt thought him too conservative.
Octafish
Dec 2011
#88
I don't either. Here's the thing about the rest - You can force politicians to think and act one way
bigtree
Dec 2011
#34
I do my best to try not to find out if someone is a republican so I won't take an attitude
ThomThom
Dec 2011
#39
Between inability to see shades of gray and inability to see and accept facts, I dislike them too.
Thor_MN
Dec 2011
#44
I don't like corporate fascists. Here in Wisconsin we have Weimar Republicans, we are at war.
bobthedrummer
Dec 2011
#52
What you said. And many thanks to you Wisconsinites for getting this push back started against these
lib_wit_it
Dec 2011
#54
Well, a lot of people claim that what you say is true, but I'm not so sure. If someone supports a
lib_wit_it
Dec 2011
#60
My family and self were viewed as less than human for decades. We became a longitudinal "research"
bobthedrummer
Dec 2011
#94
Putting money above people is a natural consequence of our capitalist system
ChillbertKChesterton
Dec 2011
#73