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36. It is an old story, but this is the first time I recall any Republican verifying the truth

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 07:38 PM

Mar 2023

of it!

Previous versions may have had the details wrong, they supposed that Casey was the person doing the dirt--
those stories never seemed to consider that lower-level people did all the talking to Iran.

In any case, now we have a confession out of their own Republican treasonous mouths...

At least this lower functionary tried to do the right thing at the last moment,
with President Carter on his deathbed.

That does not excuse what he did back then,
but it confirms the fact that this conspiracy did exist, from a Republican who participated at the time.

No longer can they call it "a conspiracy theory".

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A Clandestine Trip and a Four-Decade Secret: An Untold Story Behind Jimmy Carter's Defeat [View all] Miguelito Loveless Mar 2023 OP

Bookmarking! for reading in full later liberalla Mar 2023 #1

This old story snowybirdie Mar 2023 #2

It is an old story, but this is the first time I recall any Republican verifying the truth DemocraticPatriot Mar 2023 #36

This is also quite similar to what the Nixon campaign did to LBJ during the Vietnam War. keep_left Mar 2023 #3

LBJ Miguelito Loveless Mar 2023 #4

Two Texans with Big Oil support? bucolic_frolic Mar 2023 #7

Yes, most definitely. By the way, I think it was Everett Dirksen who broke the news to LBJ about... keep_left Mar 2023 #19

IIRC it showed up in Ken Burns's "The Vietnam War," soldierant Mar 2023 #32

I also heard that Reagan promised arms to Iran if they kept the hostages until after the 1980 electi UCmeNdc Mar 2023 #5

He did DENVERPOPS Mar 2023 #17

A closely-related scandal, "Iraq-gate", implicated a lot of the same people... keep_left Mar 2023 #25

I think you're thinking of the Stark incident? EX500rider Mar 2023 #29

This excerpt is incendiary... Hekate Mar 2023 #6

Thanks Miguelito Loveless Mar 2023 #9

Just makes me want to throw up! hamsterjill Mar 2023 #8

Pretty much DownriverDem Mar 2023 #10

Remember this well. Pas-de-Calais Mar 2023 #11

Republicans cheating in presidential elections has been going on a loooong time. nt SunSeeker Mar 2023 #12

The last legitimately-elected republican president was Eisenhower. PSPS Mar 2023 #34

"...Carter got a little bit of a bad deal about the hostages." markodochartaigh Mar 2023 #13

There's a quote stage left Mar 2023 #24

Another Republican cheating to interfere in a presidential election which we hear about decades later Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #14

20th century Republicans and treason like day follows the dawn. jaxexpat Mar 2023 #31

Kick dalton99a Mar 2023 #15

Make amends? Losing a reelection bid is small potatoes Raven123 Mar 2023 #16

Your a little late are you not Mr. Barnes..... turbinetree Mar 2023 #18

History will right this, I hope. As for Reagan, history will take care of him, too. Joinfortmill Mar 2023 #20

Another conservative POS! Grumpy Old Guy Mar 2023 #21

So evil Blues Heron Mar 2023 #22

I was alive in the era Marthe48 Mar 2023 #23

remember that morning in america TV ad - the voice is just as you say Blues Heron Mar 2023 #28

Treason, is what it is, and helping usher in the radical right too LymphocyteLover Mar 2023 #26

He should be prosecuted as if he had taken those hostages himself Blues Heron Mar 2023 #27

. . . and there is this from the NYT article AverageOldGuy Mar 2023 #30

A DU post from November 1st, 2003: ex-President Carter's Operation Desert Claw sabotaged? NBachers Mar 2023 #33

He should know there is no statute of limitations for kidnapping Blues Heron Mar 2023 #35

Locking after a discussion with forum hosts. Lasher Mar 2023 #37