The Bush family and the truth about Iran....

The Bushes & the Truth About Iran
By Robert Parry
September 21, 2006

Having gone through the diplomatic motions with Iran, George W. Bush is shifting toward a military option that carries severe risks for American soldiers in Iraq as well as for long-term U.S. interests around the world. Yet, despite this looming crisis, the Bush Family continues to withhold key historical facts about U.S.-Iranian relations.

Those historical facts – relating to Republican contacts with Iran’s Islamic regime more than a quarter century ago – are relevant today because an underlying theme in Bush’s rationale for war is that direct negotiations with Iran are pointless. But Bush’s own father may know otherwise.

The evidence is now persuasive that George H.W. Bush participated in negotiations with Iran’s radical regime in 1980, behind President Jimmy Carter’s back, with the goal of arranging for 52 American hostages to be released after Bush and Ronald Reagan were sworn in as Vice President and President, respectively.

In exchange, the Republicans agreed to let Iran obtain U.S.-manufactured military supplies through Israel. The Iranians kept their word, releasing the hostages immediately upon Reagan’s swearing-in on Jan. 20, 1981.

Over the next few years, the Republican-Israel-Iran weapons pipeline operated mostly in secret, only exploding into public view with the Iran-Contra scandal in late 1986. Even then, the Reagan-Bush team was able to limit congressional and other investigations, keeping the full history – and the 1980 chapter – hidden from the American people.

Upon taking office on Jan. 20, 2001, George W. Bush walled up the history even more by issuing an executive order blocking the scheduled declassification of records from the Reagan-Bush years. After 9/11, the younger George Bush added more bricks to the wall by giving Presidents, Vice Presidents and their heirs power over releasing documents.

The rest of the article is at: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/092006.html

has there ever been a family that has done more damage to this country than them? We probably don't even know the half of it either.

Nope. From Nazi supporters to war-loving idiots, these people have fucked this country eight ways from Sunday.

Others have been threats to our country individually, but that family is a collective threat to our country. Their greed, arrogance and desire for power are more important to them than anything else.

holding public office again. Perhaps the entire family should be forcibly immigrated to Saudi Arabia. That's where their true loyalties lie.

There is still a chance to make things right. A Democratic house after November would be a good start.

who will 'spill the beans' on this crew like Butler did in the '30s.

to those who are willing to go along with the Chimp's anti-Iran rants and gear-up for attacks on that nation.

Always bugged the hell outta me that the real story behind the Iran-Contra crimes never did see the light of day. And people seemed so willing to just let it all slide by with the whitewashing it was given. Considering what could and should have happened, minimal harm instead came to those who plotted so venally against a Dem President and, in all truth, against the best interests of those American hostages.

Who knows how much more effectively Carter might have been able to handle that situation without the backroom dirty dealing of the R's? Carter always knew how he'd been had, I believe; but he was too late in working to combat the efforts of his opponents here at home.

I've even wondered if there was a lot more to the story of the crashed choppers Carter sent to rescue the hostages, which failed attempt pretty much sealed his doom in that whole situation. Probably that was a truly unintended and unavoidable accident, but still... I put NOTHING past these criminals who are in power now. And they took over solidly during the reign of the ACTOR named Reagan who is wrongly praised for many things he did -- even by a lot of Dems.

Lots of Americans are so willfully BLIND much of the time!

And we should never forget that GHWBu$h was head of the CIA, if only for a short time. He learned things while there (and probably did a lot of things too) that have stood his party in good stead forever after.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/about/author/192
Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the ’80s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His new book, Secrecy and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, can be ordered here. A version of this article originally appeared on Consortium News.

Articles by Robert Parry

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1678220,00.html






They want WW3, they want a parking lot, they want the Bernard Lewis Plan

there are documents that are U.S.documents that are being suppressed - but shouldn't the receiving country - in this case Iran - have documents on these deals. If I were President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - I would go into the Iranian archives and find those documents and release them to the press. * 43 can't stop or suppress that.