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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember That Time Ronald Reagan Shot Down An Iranian Airliner?
http://wonkette.com/554694/remember-that-time-ronald-reagan-shot-down-an-iranian-airliner-that-was-awesome#pfIvcYQyhlmQ3SF0.99..................................snip
Media Matters points out that at least one Fox anchor, Chris Wallace, who was covering Reagan for NBC in 1983, had the decency to call out his colleagues at Fox for distorting history, which probably means Chris Wallace is a communist or something:
............... I was covering Ronald Reagan at that time. He was in Santa Barbara at his ranch when that happened, and quite frankly he didnt want to leave. And his advisers realized how terrible this looked, and eventually persuaded him he had to fly back to Washington and had to give this speech to the nation, but it did take him four days.
Clearly, Wallaces insistence on reality makes him the odd man out at Fox, and its really quite disgraceful to think that Barack Obama going to a fundraiser is anything comparable to Ronald Reagan staying on vacation for four days, because as we all know, Reagan deserved his rest and Barack Obama admits that hes lazy.
Strangely unmentioned by either Fox or Media Matters was that one time in 1988 when America shot down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 people. Ronald Reagan didnt do a primetime speech on that one, of course, because the U.S. doesnt deliberately shoot down airliners we were really sad about the loss of life, but we were also really sure it was an Iranian F-14 fighter before we fired on it (in fact, the commander and missile officer on the USS Vincennes got medals for their excellent performance). Even though the jets transponder signal identified it as a civilian plane. In fact, the U.S. has never formally apologized to Iran for that one, although we did pay out $131.8 million in a settlement to discontinue a case in the International Court of Justice. No apology needed there, because it was a war zone, and mistakes were made.
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Remember That Time Ronald Reagan Shot Down An Iranian Airliner? (Original Post)
ErikJ
Jul 2014
OP
seeing his evil mug today still makes me want to throw something at my computer nt
geek tragedy
Jul 2014
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GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)1. Well he felt safer at home with Mommy.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. seeing his evil mug today still makes me want to throw something at my computer nt
daleo
(21,317 posts)3. According to some people, there is a 20 year statute of limitations on shoot downs
And you can only be outraged by certain events if the other side does them. If your side does them, it is only a tragic accident. The other side, that is pure evil.
Also, sober sailors in state of the art warships and nice uniforms are allowed mistakes, because they are not drunken hooligans irregulars. Something like that.
Plus, deflection and oh yeah, that was a long time ago. Plus, Reagan isn't president anymore. Plus he is dead and nobody in the world has the right to care what the American military did under a president once he is dead. That's a rule. Everyone knows that, unless they are traitors or fellow travellers of the enemy de jour.