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Sheepshank

(12,504 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:38 AM Mar 2015

A few short years from now, history will remember when.....

.....Republicans publically revered a Russian President over their own President, and aided Islamic extremists to undermine multinational peace talks.

Who ever would have thought a Republican would be caught in such a situation? Not my Republican boss. Never in a million years did he ever think his party would come to this. He thinks he really needs to find new political associations. Good.

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A few short years from now, history will remember when..... (Original Post) Sheepshank Mar 2015 OP
Your boss may be an idiot RobertEarl Mar 2015 #1
And anti-Communist crusader Richard Nixon became best buds with Mao Zedong, Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #3
poppy opened up China RobertEarl Mar 2015 #4
Funny how so many people in the Reagan administration Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #5
yeah RobertEarl Mar 2015 #6
It's the October Surprise Raster Mar 2015 #10
I don't think it's going to be long before history notes how horribly the GOP napi21 Mar 2015 #2
GOP has become a sectarian Death Cult. ErikJ Mar 2015 #7
Lincoln says... TrollBuster9090 Mar 2015 #8
As far as Obama is concerned he will be much more popular after 2016 than he is today. gordianot Mar 2015 #9
Conservatives always lose in the end... Blanks Mar 2015 #11
History remembers. People don't. HuckleB Mar 2015 #12
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
1. Your boss may be an idiot
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:23 AM
Mar 2015

reagan gave aid and comfort to the radicals in Iran. And republicans praised him; damn idiots. Tell him I said so.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
4. poppy opened up China
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:51 AM
Mar 2015

So we could send our 'extra' jobs there.

And then he said he was "out of the loop" when reagan gave aid to the radical Muslims in Iran. There is even a theory that poppy was instrumental in the hostage trading.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
5. Funny how so many people in the Reagan administration
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:57 AM
Mar 2015

were "out of the loop".

And the one who was admittedly "in the loop", Colonel Oliver North, ended up as a sort of national hero. No doubt that colonel's uniform brought many a patriotic tear to the eyes of committee members.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
6. yeah
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:05 AM
Mar 2015

reagan "couldn't recall" what he was doing as president.

The republicans should get down on their knees and give Bill a bj for letting bushco to skate on the whole Iran/Contra affairs bushco had with those radical Muslims in Iran.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
10. It's the October Surprise
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 03:30 AM
Mar 2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory

The October Surprise conspiracy theory refers to an alleged plot to influence the outcome of the 1980 United States presidential election between incumbent Jimmy Carter (D–GA) and opponent Ronald Reagan (R–CA).

One of the leading national issues during that year was the release of 52 Americans being held hostage in Iran since 4 November 1979. Reagan won the election. On the day of his inauguration, in fact, 20 minutes after he concluded his inaugural address, the Islamic Republic of Iran announced the release of the hostages. The timing gave rise to an allegation that representatives of Reagan's presidential campaign had conspired with Iran to delay the release until after the election to thwart President Carter from pulling off an "October surprise".

According to the allegation, the Reagan Administration rewarded Iran for its participation in the plot by supplying Iran with weapons via Israel and by unblocking Iranian government monetary assets in U.S. banks.

After twelve years of mixed media attention, both houses of the U.S. Congress held separate inquiries and concluded that the allegations lacked supporting documentation.

Nevertheless, several individuals—most notably former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, former Naval intelligence officer and National Security Council member Gary Sick; and former Reagan/Bush campaign and White House staffer Barbara Honegger—have stood by the allegation. There have been allegations that the 1980 Camarate air crash which killed the Portuguese Prime Minister, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, was in fact an assassination of the Defence Minister, Adelino Amaro da Costa, who had said that he had documents concerning the October surprise conspiracy theory and was planning on taking them to the United Nations General Assembly.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
2. I don't think it's going to be long before history notes how horribly the GOP
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:31 AM
Mar 2015

has treated this President, including having a foreign leader come and speak to congress AGAINST the President, AND supporting the radicals in Iran over the American President.

Yes It's very obvious to us that this is all happening, but it will be confirmed to the world in the historical records.

I guess they don't really care what's recorded about them, but I suspect they WILL one day.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
8. Lincoln says...
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:25 AM
Mar 2015

"So...my Party freed the African-American slaves, and 150 years later we had the first African-American President. What did my Party do to him? Questioned his loyalty to the Country, depicted him as a witch doctor on protest signs, yelled 'you lie!' at him during a State of the Union Address, defunded the government to try and stop him from implementing a law, and wrote a letter to an enemy power telling them not to bother negotiating a peace treaty with him because they had absolutely no intention of honoring it, regardless of what it says. They also gutted the voting rights Act, and passed laws making it more difficult for African-Americans to vote; and held a Contempt vote against the first African-American Attorney General for no reason. Fuck this, I'm burning my membership card."



gordianot

(15,240 posts)
9. As far as Obama is concerned he will be much more popular after 2016 than he is today.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:58 AM
Mar 2015

I expect someday historians will look at a host of issues and not be called conspiracy theorist. There are many anomalies in interpretation of current events where the story has not really been told. Republicans will be far over the wrong side of history.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
11. Conservatives always lose in the end...
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 12:34 AM
Mar 2015

It's only through the successful dumbing down of America that nobody is aware of it.

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