dailykos.com — Once again, McCain has demonstrated a complete lack of knowledge about foreign policy and American history. First he got confused over Sunnis and Shiites, now this. McCain seems to be forgetting something kind of important that happened during the Reagan administration. It's called the Iran-Contra Scandal.
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phrenzyMay 16, 2008
Dude, you have made a career out of making a fool out of yourself on digg. You've hit rock bottom and started "digging" (so to speak)Do you realize you just totally proved the point of this article? McCain claimed that because of Reagan they released the hostages, yet (as you just said) Reagan had only taken office on the very DAY of the release. I.e. Reagan had nothing to do with it.Thanks for playing.
vengeancenightMay 16, 2008
Ummm...not to let facts get in the way of a good bashing but McCain was talking about the Embassy hostages and not the hostages held by Hezbollah. So I fail to see how a comparison can be drawn that shows that McCain is a liar and/or rewriting history. And also the weapons weren't going to Khomeini but to a moderate faction who the US was hoping to "get in good with them" when Khomeini died and there was a chance to reform Iran. Now I happen to believe that this whole Iran-Contra affair was bad...but I have trouble seeing how any of this proves that McCain is lying and/or rewriting history.
jonnyeuchreMay 16, 2008
there is splitting hairs and there is splicing hairs...but really they are the same thing
lastvisibledogMay 16, 2008
Did Iran/Contra get anywhere near Reagan? No, ahem! Rum along Democrat sheeple.
leomarthMay 16, 2008
No sweety. I didn't vote for Bushie either. Nor did I vote for Kerry.Assumptions... you know what they do, right?
phillesh69May 17, 2008
The release of embassy officials held by Iranians from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981 is not the Iran Contra affair, which involved the sale of contra cocaine to buy missiles to give to Iran in order to get the Iranians to exert influence over Hezbollah who were holding several Americans hostage in Lebanon. (You remember, Terry Anderson was probably the most famous hostage.)When we gave arms to Iran, I don't know if it matters whether the people we spoke with were moderate or not. Giving weapons to a nation doesn't involve any controls on which faction has use of the weapons, nor can we prevent the more extreme within the government to authorize their use. That's sort of like thinking you can sell weapons to the nicer people in Germany, and absolving yourself from any responsibility when Adolf Hitler orders their use to invade Poland.
lamiaconfitorMay 17, 2008
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dante22May 18, 2008
Obama said Truman and Roosevelt negotiated with our enemies. Hello?
zerocool1990May 18, 2008
Well no sir you are wrong.Hezbolla are LEBANESE not Palestinians.And we are talking about the hostages in the American embassy in IRAN.Yes you are right about the cocaine but pretty much wrong about everything else.