Chairman Hyde Whacks the Dems!

Hyde Press ^ | 09/13/06 | Henry Hyde

[HastertFan]

For IMMEDIATE Release

Hyde Comments on Democratic Attack on the President’s Foreign Policy

(WASHINGTON) - U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-IL), Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations, released the following statement after Democratic lawmakers and former Carter and Clinton administration officials criticized President Bush’s policies in the Middle East:

It strains the limit of humor to hear the foreign policy elite of the Democratic Party attempt to blame George W. Bush for enabling Iran to become a global menace. For it was a Democratic President, Jimmy Carter, who presided over the seizure of power in Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, with a mixture of ineptitude and admiration. And it was Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who oversaw this disastrous foreign policy.

Instead of the improved relations the Carter Administration predicted, the Iranians seized our diplomats, who were forced to endure 444 days of captivity. They were only released after the Carter Administration negotiated a considerable ransom, when Ronald Reagan was about to be inaugurated.

When the next Democratic Administration took office, the pattern continued. Secretary of State Albright appeared at a pro-Iranian banquet to apologize for past American behavior, proposing "better relations." But the Iranians, who declared us their mortal enemies upon seizing power, would have none of it. Indeed, as the world knows all too well, the secret Iranian nuclear program was in full force during the Clinton years, as was Iranian support for Hezbollah and al-Qaeda terrorists.

Under the Bush Administration, in contrast, the world community is now mobilized to put an end to the Iranian nuclear program, and this country is finally on record in support of the Iranian people's legitimate desire to be free. The Democrats sought an accommodation with the Iranian tyrants, while President Bush is moving to spread freedom. When it comes to foreign policy, at least the Democrats have the virtue of consistency. Unfortunately, they have been consistently wrong for as long as I can remember.

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[Suzy Quzy]

BITE YOUR TONGUE!!

[rightazrain]

"They were only released after the Carter Administration negotiated a considerable ransom, when Ronald Reagan was about to be inaugurated."

You ask about this. I have never heard it before either, and I'm old enough to have remembered and lived through the whole thing. The only thing I can think of, remotely, is the Oliver North thing about trading arms for hostages w/Iran to help the Contras. I've never heard of a ransom paid to Iran for the hostages. I hope someone on this thread can answer your question, or ping someone who would know more about it.

[STARWISE]

Judge Taylor's Ruling Is Carter's Mind -- It's Weakness Is Terror's Strength - Excerpt

We have to reassess our foreign policy in dealing with Iran.

We must (correction) change it from passivity or reactive to a preemptive course of action. We must move out from where we are now about Iran, and preempt Iran’s every move that poses an imminent danger to our national security.

What price shall we take for the lesson of history is not for me to decide, yet there is no question for me that we must move out of the spot where we know that a ton of rock from the sky will fall on that spot.

When that rock falls where we are, it would be too late to prove our procrastination that we don’t have to move away until the rock falls on us. The dead can’t talk nor can they admit mistakes.

The terror in Iran only communicates with and understands force, nuclear or otherwise.

Carter was indecisive, trying to reason out with the terror of Iran to release the American diplomats that were taken hostage, for Iran to name its price for their freedom. It was one of the darkest hours in the history of this country in dealing with terror.

Only when Republican President Ronald Reagan succeeded Carter that Khomeini’s belligerence on hostage-taking and vile insults heaped on the United States started to simmer down, and finally freed our incarcerated diplomats following Reagan’s ultimatum to release them or face the consequences. The release was made through the mediation of Algeria to save Khomeini’s face.

In rejecting Iran’s demand for $24 billion for ransom and the orderly release of the kidnapped diplomats, Reagan said, “I don’t think you pay ransom for people that have been kidnapped by barbarians .” [Refer to Note (3)]

I don’t think either that the world will have sleepless night mulling over a guilty conscience when the nukes were dropped on barbarians that have no conscience to kill wantonly as they please, to begin with.

Americans and the people around the world [include this writer among those who wept in private for justice when American diplomats were subjected to such unspeakable indignities not fit to print here] were just waiting for Reagan to push the button and wipe primeval Iran off the map – maybe primitive Iran might not be really erased completely from the map when we drop the nukes like we did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that would be when mushroom dusts settled down and a sleek of oil might still be found where Iran used to be.

When the liberals and the anti-war movement started to compare the Bush administration as the cause of international disrespect of America in dealing with terrorists which to them the invasion of Iraq is deemed to be the pinnacle of such denigration, I know for a fact being right there in my UN days, that it is not even a droplet in the bucket of Carter’s indecisive terror capitulation and diplomatic pandering which did not only cost the unnecessary loss of American lives but also of this nation’s dignity and prestige we built in the crucible of war and peace for democracy to thrive unchallenged over more than two hundred years, that eventually went down the drain.

The American public of this generation must know that it was during the presidency of Jimmy Carter – a liberal Democrat President – that this greatest and most powerful nation on the planet had suffered the worst humiliation and loss of prestige and respect in the eyes of the world ever recorded.

Carter’s international mindset is not to fight terror but to negotiate with terror. It’s like pleading that terror will have mercy on us if we should not hurt terrorists when they hurt us.

We should not hurt terrorists when they hurt us because according to Carter, “We deny personal responsibility when we plant landmines and, days or years later, a stranger to us — often a child – is crippled or killed.” [4]

In simple language, Carter would only allow terrorists to plant landmines to maim, kill or cripple our children, but would not allow us to do the same to terrorists’ children because when we do, we deny responsibility.

This is self-immolation. This is only heard on stage from the last comic standing.

The problem is, terrorists do not listen to nor learn their lesson from clowns.

When this country is led by a President of this kind in times of war, it’s time to pray.

Obviously, Carter’s weakness is terror’s strength. So is the ruling of Judge Taylor.

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Edwin Sumcad - has written published, unpublished academic papers; has long years of newspaper experience, writing daily and magazine editorials, essays, feature articles, columns, novelettes, short stories. Academic, other works -- has degrees in literature and jornalism, masters in development economics, and in civil law; journalist, practicing lawyer, Finance Attache, ASEAN specialist, retired diplomat, and former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.

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Anyone really know if a ransom was paid?

[beyond the sea]

lol

We'll all have to get a copy of "Rules For Radicals".

;-)

[Suzy Quzy]

Sean Hannity will play the SCREECHING speech of Hillary every day and she will NOT win!!!

[beyond the sea]

LOL

"I am sick and tired ......"

She is one angry woman.

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I really think the roots of Hillary's paranoia and anger go back to her childhood when her father gave her a toaster and a radio as bath toys.

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[STARWISE]

Found this .. from FrontPage Magazine:

As tensions mounted, Carter withdrew U.S. support from the Shah, turning Iran into a beacon of hope for jihadists around the world.

Before admitting the exiled Shah to America, he accepted Iranian guarantees they could secure our embassy, one of the costliest miscalculations in the history of American foreign policy.

If al-Qaeda was emboldened by American reversals in Beirut and Somalia, one can only imagine their glee at the 14-month-long hostage crisis.

Carter ultimately agreed to pay a ransom of $8 billion (of which, Iran netted $3 billion), [15] although Ronald Reagan’s toughness and resolution was the decisive factor in ending the crisis.

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Sounds like we did pay those monsters.

[Ax]

Mao Zedong has gone on to his reward, and the Paper Tiger is still roaring. His "Long March" in 1936, and the "Great Cultural Revolution" in the mid 1960s led to the quasi-capitalist China we have today. Hope Ol' Mao doesn't get too sick from spinning in his grave.

[beyond the sea]

"Hillary said that when she first set eyes on Bill Clinton back in college he had a beard and he reminded her of a Viking, which was perfect ............... because she reminded him of Iceland.

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[cardinal4]

Hey, are you back home from the Keys?

[Txsleuth]

Thanks ...I did NOT know that...I wonder if this is big news to a LOT of people.

I just saw Jimmah for a second on Larry King..and he said that if Congress went to the dems...with Bush as POTUS for the next 2 years...it would create a sense of "bipartisanship"....LOL

[STARWISE]

He, too, makes my blood boil (and my list is growing a lot). He should've been removed for incompetency .. absolutely THE worst.

[prairiebreeze]

It's nice to see a few (not many but a couple) of Republicans taking a public stand against the outrageous RAT behavior that has been leaving the nation infuriated for the past 6 years.

[Ax]

Yes. Didn't you get my email?

[cardinal4]

No, Im at the airport..

[Free Vulcan]

You let the opponent exhaust themselves as they run their big yap. Then you saw off the limb they put themselves out on.

[ohioWfan]

KaPOW!!!!

KEEP THIS UP, GUYS!! Don't be afraid to tell the TRUTH about the 'legacy' of the RATS!

[onyx]

Wow --- sounds like it to me too.

[onyx]

I despise Carter bump.

[onyx]

Better late then never bump.