Long overdue Debbie Wasserman Schultz Appreciation thread

[Octafish]

95. Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles live!

The foreign policy of the United States did a 180 the second Jimmy Carter became an ex-president. Funny how history "works."

The October Surprise Was Real

by CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO
CounterPunch, JULY 11, 2014

In January 1992 I published my first journalistic article ever. Published in Puerto Rico’s Claridad weekly newspaper, it was titled “The October Surprise”. In it I affirmed that the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign bargained secretly with Iranian radicals for the postponement of the liberation of 52 Americans that they were holding hostage. These hostages were employees of the US embassy in Iran’s capital city of Teheran, which had been stormed by militants loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini in November 1979. This secret deal, known as the October Surprise, frustrated the attempts of US president Jimmy Carter to obtain the hostages’ release in time for the elections in November. This failure cost Carter his reelection, and swept Republican candidate Ronald Reagan into the presidency. Polls carried out before the election showed that the hostage issue was of top importance in the minds of the American electorate.

The Republican campaign’s main negotiators in this deal were George H. W. Bush, vice presidential candidate and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, and William Casey, the campaign’s director and veteran spook who spied for the Office of Strategic Services during World War Two. Once elected, president Reagan appointed Casey to direct the CIA.

The hostages were freed the same day Reagan was sworn in as his nation’s fortieth president on January 1981. What was in it for the Iranians? Weapons, tons of them. Iran needed them badly in order to repel an invasion by Iraq. The Iran-Iraq war lasted from 1980 to 1988 and took approximately one million lives. The much-publicized wars in Central America in those years positively pale in comparison to the horror and carnage of this Middle East war, which was almost certainly the bloodiest of that decade. The October Surprise conspiracy and the arms deals related to the Iran-Iraq war led to the Iran-Contra affair, the biggest political scandal of the 1980’s.

This is very serious business: aiding and abetting a kidnapping, secretly undermining a president’s foreign policy- with the express purpose of tilting election results at home, high treason. You could fry in the electric chair for less than this.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/11/the-october-surprise-was-real/

If the nation's news media did their job, this would all be front page news: The Carter Administration was sabotaged from within by Traitors who would foist Reagan, Bush, another Bush and who knows what else upon America in the form of left behind molery through the three branches of government. Certainly Treason should not be the second story to Kimandkanyelina.

PS: Like a field of poppy covered commas, bending and waving in waves of red; each frigging green blade of grass says during the hurricane: "There is much power in the wind. And it's free."