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In reply to the discussion: ''Does this picture make me look guilty?'' [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)He had concurrent, or near concurrent, knowledge of events, but he did not direct those events, he didn't plan those events, and he didn't coordinate those events. He just got briefed in the event that Saint Ronnie keeled over.
George had too many friends in the intel community to be cut out of the loop, but he wasn't the one calling the shots.
As I said, had he been, we wouldn't have even known about it.
You seem to forget that Bush ran for the Presidency at the same time that Reagan did, they were primary opponents, and Reagan only put him on the ticket because he could help in TX and New England, and Ronnie hated Ford--if your grand conspiracy was, in fact, true, why didn't """they""" just slide George into the top slot straight off? Seems like a chancy way to get this Mastermind into the White House.