Posted on 06/01/2005 4:57:54 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's articles that helped depose Richard Nixon, a few thoughts.
Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?
Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.
That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.
When his enemies brought him down, and they had been laying for him since he proved that Alger Hiss was a traitor, since Alger Hiss was their fair-haired boy, this is what they bought for themselves in the Kharma Supermarket that is life:
1.) The defeat of the South Vietnamese government with decades of death and hardship for the people of Vietnam.
2.) The assumption of power in Cambodia by the bloodiest government of all time, the Khmer Rouge, who killed a third of their own people, often by making children beat their own parents to death. No one doubts RN would never have let this happen.
So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide. I hope they are happy now -- because their future looks pretty bleak to me.
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Thanks for the ping.
As Nixon said, he gave his enemies a rope and they hanged him with it.
In retorspect, it seems clear that his enemies were America's enemies.
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Go to http://www.watergate.com/
Select, On line materials
On the new page select, Documents from Dean v. St. Martin's
On the new page select, Core Category #05 — [John Dean had the means to know that call-girl ring services were being telephonically obtained within the DNC] 43p. Also, Core Category #06 — [John Dean was concerned when the FBI seized Phillip Bailley's address book because it listed the names Maureen Biner, "Clout" and Cathy Dieter] 26p.
I believe that Ms Biner's code name was "Clout" because of her connections to the White House, i.e., Dean.
The above all have to do with the lawsuits resulting from the book, Silent Coup. I believe that the book made the call-girl connection to the Watergate break-in. There are no photos with copies of the legal documents.
As far as I know the Deans' lawsuits failed to force any retractions in the book.
As per 'KC Burke's' post# 73; this is the story he wrote in his book and the one he tells today. Personally believe him. . .he has nothing to lose; and whatever attributes one might ascribe to Liddy; he stood by his loyalty oat of silence and went to prison rather than talk.
Could probably check his website (or radio show, if possible) to catch his updated analysis.
He interviewed FoxNews's 'Judge' (Napolitano (?) on his show the other day and went into great detail. . .but when interviewed by John Gibson on Fox News; did not mention 'Dean - 'Mo' and the 'business plan'; wondered if it was time constraints or by request. . .
He thinks Dean is the biggest rat ever; having testified. . .and lied so as to not incriminate himself; while still protecting what he 'was protecting' all along by attempting this WG mission.
Well GOOD FOR YOU!
Wow, thank you for posting this. I had no idea Ben Stein was so, well, multi-talented. A lawyer, speechwriter, and (very good) columnist in addition to being an actor?
As a matter of fact, after reading his website, I'm going to go rent Ferris Beuhler's (sp?) Day Off. :) I could use a laugh today.
Ben Stein's one of our greatest writers. And while few will share his perspective about Nixon, it's a perspective worth sharing.
It turns out that "Deep Throat" was a petulent little man who destroyed a presidency because he was passed over for a promotion, and that his immediate family is just as selfish as he was. It's no surprise that this little creep is now lionized by the mainstream media.
bookmark , and thanks FMC
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Found a picture of her too - fascinating story and an interesting theory.
She was absoloutely stunning during the proceedings. This photo must be a few years later.
She would have fetched a pretty penny.
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Just think- what better way to out politic your opponent?
Don't forget that awful 55 mile an hour speed limit Nixon saddled us with. He and Nelson Rockefeller were peas in a pod. I don't loathe Nixon, only his enemies. But we need to remember that Nixon was no Reagan.
Don't forget that awful 55 mile an hour speed limit Nixon saddled us with. He and Nelson Rockefeller were peas in a pod. I don't loathe Nixon, only his enemies. But we need to remember that Nixon was no Reagan.
I actually do loathe both Nixon and his enemies.
There was a reason why President Reagan hated him so much, Nixon is the all time RINO champion.
He was a cheap oppurtunist and a liberal one to boot, but what the left did to him was wrong.
I do look at the upside, his miserable failures helped pave the way to Reagan, and one day we will boot the last of the "Nixon (aka Rockefeller) republicans" out of the party.
I think Ben Stein is a great speechwriter. Too bad he couldn't write a speech for Nixon to get him out of the Watergate mess. Here's some info that the press "made up" in order to get the great Nixon thrown out.
http://www.watergate.info/sussman/extract1.shtml
Cambodia did not have any major bases of operation for the NLF, or North Vietnamese Army.
"Cambodia's genocide was Nixon's fault!"
I didn't say that.
I did say however, that Nixon's involvement in Cambodia slid a neutral nation into complete chaos by large scale bombing.
Perhaps you should study what happens to a nation when it gets bombed heavily. Societal cohesion is not one of its' main hallmarks.
"Uh, sorry, but no. That party had allowed the conditions that led to the invasion - unopposed sanctuary for people who were killing our troops and using that border for protection. Nixon did nothing but respond to a condition that only allowed that party to maintain office through connivance with the North Vietnamese. Twisting that to blame him for the Khmer Rouge was very popular back when it was chic to blacken his reputation by any means necessary (e.g. The Killing Fields) but is a historical injustice of the first order."
You are mistaken. The invasion of Cambodia was an attempt by Nixon to move the war in Vietnam to a place in which the U.S. would have some success.
This was based on mistaken intellgence that the NLF and North Vietnamese had their headquarters in Cambodia, which was erroneous.
The Khmer Rouge was a small, extremist minority organization before Nixon invaded Cambodia. The ensuing violence and chaos which followed the U.S. invasion of Cambodia only allowed the Khmer Rouge to step into the power vacuum which followed.
"neutral power? They allowed the NVA to use Cambodia as a supply route and staging site to attack SVN for years and that is neutral?"
This is true. The Cambodian Royal Goverment was aware that the NLF and North Vietnamese Army were using staging areas inside their country to attack U.S. forces.
However, does this legitimitze the terrible destruction of an nation?
In the historical view that the bombing and subsequent invasion of Cambodia (and ensuing bloodshed) of that action-- no.
Furthermore, the invasion of Cambodia in 1970-71 was out of desperation by the Nixon admininstration. The U.S. had lost the war long before that. The U.S. would be out of Vietnam by 1973, and in 1975-- the South Vietnamese regime collapsed.
Yet in your post #139 you admit that the North Vietnamese were using Cambodia as a staging area to attack South Vietnam. Which is it?
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