I thought Dukakis did pretty well at pinning the dealing-with-Iran, Noriega
and contra drug runners on Bush, something that seems to have been downplayed
in the press. I was looking at the transcript of the debate just now, and
nocticed that after Dukakis noted that after the task force on international
terrorism report was issued, of which Bush was the chairman, Bush endorsed
the sale of arms to Iran. Now I think that that task force was a couple of
years into the Reagan Administration. It's very interesting that Bush replied
with, "Clearly nobody's going to think the President *started out* thinking
he was going to trade arms for hostages. That is a very serious charge against
the President, and that has been thoroughly looked into."
Bush is denying that their policy was to trade arms with the hostages at the
*very beginning* of their administration, something Dukakis didn't even
accuse him of. Guilty! Further, Bush tries to make people feel bad about
accusing them of that by accusing them of making serious charges against our
beloved president. This guy is guilty as hell!
--Pete
[Note: there is lots of evidence for the theory that Reagan and Bush made a
deal to trade arms with Iran way back in 1980, while the hostages were still
being held. They say that we've given Iran over $1 billion dollars worth
of arms since Reagan/Bush came into office, as part of the deal to not
release the 52 hostages until Carter left office. For more info on this
conspiracy, and others, contact:
The Other America's Radio: (805) 569-5381
P.O. Box 85
Santa Barbara, CA 93102
Ask for the 'October Surprise' tape.
]
