For evil is as evil does.Speaking of really evil ...
Posted on 09/16/2003 1:36:00 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
Remember the old conservative charge that many of the Democrats here in America were playing footsie with the Soviets? Some Republicans even said the Russians viewed the Democrats as their favorite party.
Now bombshell revelations prove these accusations beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, has just written a new book, "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism."
This book may well force historians to revise the history of the Cold War.
Schweizer, after scouring once-classified KGB, East German Stasi and Soviet Communist Party files, discovered incontrovertible evidence that the Soviets not only played footsie with high-ranking Democrats, they also worked behind the scenes to influence American elections.
In "Reagan's War," Schweizer shows how the Democrats worked with Moscow to try to undermine Reagan before and after he became president.
Jimmy Carter's Dirty Tricks
Soviet diplomatic accounts and material from the archives show that in January 1984, former President Jimmy Carter dropped by Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin's residence for a private meeting.
Carter expressed his concern about and opposition to Reagan's defense buildup. He boldly told Dobrynin that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, "There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power."
Using the Russians to influence the presidential election was nothing new for Carter.
Schweizer reveals Russian documents that show that in the waning days of the 1980 campaign, the Carter White House dispatched businessman Armand Hammer to the Soviet Embassy.
Hammer was a longtime Soviet-phile, and he explained to the Soviet ambassador that Carter was "clearly alarmed" at the prospect of losing to Reagan.
Hammer pleaded with the Russians for help. He asked if the Kremlin could expand Jewish emigration to bolster Carter's standing in the polls.
'Carter Won't Forget That Service'
"Carter won't forget that service if he is elected," Hammer told Dobrynin.
Carter was not the only Democrat to make clear to the Russians where their loyalty lay. As the election neared in 1984, Dobrynin recalls meetings with Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.
O'Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent "that demagogue Reagan" from being re-elected.
Soviet documents report that O'Neill told Dobrynin: "If that happens, Reagan will give vent to his primitive instincts and give us a lot of trouble, probably, put us on the verge of a major armed conflict. He is a dangerous man."
Who are you implying?
You can be forgiven if it was in 1976.
Congressman Larry McDonald, who was murdered by enemies of the Constitution. He was aboard Korean Flight 700 that the Soviets shot down.
He was a true patriot and had presidential aspirations.
I still remember my hand shaking while I signed that 13-5/8% mortgage note.
I probably would have as well if not for a timely bit of intelligence I received before the election. My brother lived in Albany GA. (about 30 miles south of the fake Peanut farm) and was a frequent traveler to and from Washington DC. He kept running into Ralph Nader on the same flights going to and from Planes to "work" with Carter. Having indirectly dealt with Nader and his Socialist goon squads in the past, I was tipped off as to what to expect from the Peanut. I held my nose and voted for Ford and was not at all surprised at how completely both our domestic and international policy were screwed up by this clown after his administration got packed with various Nader Raiders and fellow travelers. After only 4 years, we were in deep-s**t trouble and I was pessimistic that we could ever recover. Thank God for Ronald Reagan. He did save us.
For evil is as evil does.Speaking of really evil ...
Basically true, but the actions of the Nixon campaign certainly did not help the thousands of US troops that died due to the stalling of peace negotiations.
Also, doesn't it violate the Logan Act for private individuals to negotiate with a foreign government?
Funny story:
My brother, the liberal, is a school teacher (surprise, surprise). When Carter was running against Ford, my Dad put a "President Ford" bumper sticker on the front bumper of my brother's car. You never look at your front bumper, my Dad told me. So my brother goes for several weeks with all of the other teachers at his school giving him the cold shoulder until he discovers the bumber sticker. Seems he always pulled in to his parking spot at his school and his car was aimed at the teachers lounge. Our Dad (RIP) was a great man, lifelong Republican, and the worlds greatest practical joker.
Although a democrat, he was as anti-communist as Reagan, and he was a constitutionalist.
It's old news, huh! Well my fine friend, while your sittin at your ole fishing hole, pondering your good fortune, there are old fools like me that are nursing old wounds, deep and dreadful wounds, from wars that kept your Bradenton (Manatee County) Florida homestead free.
I'm not complaining mind you, I would just like to make a point, without name-calling. If this news, old or new, about a man, not just any man, one that held the highest office in the entire world, one that decides matters of the highest import to this nation, your nation and mine, collaborated with known enemies of our country, placing all of us in jeopardy, why aren't you as outraged as I am?
I reminded you of my service, not knowing whether or not you did the same. I mention it only to remind you that there are young men and women that take orders from the office that President Carter held. Those orders that our Commander in Chief pass down to his faithful troops, determine our fate, all of our futures, even the future of you, your wife, your beautiful daughters, and wonderful young son. Our President speaks, and military folks accept his word, believing that our lives are at great risk, but knowing that those young lives, as many of us know from personal experience, may be forever changed, or ..lost, for a cause greater than ourselves.. A FREE AMERICA
Now I, and millions of others before me, perhaps even yourself, have to know that what we risk is worth something. Something more than an election, or an extramarital affair, or just to stay in power. We little people seldom find out when the highest levels of our government are truly corrupt, that when we do, as with Nixon in Watergate, and President Clinton with the bombings, timed to cover his sins, or selling our military secrets, and now Carter to stay in power, or to undermine our elections, as a traitor, we are outraged and expect everyone else will feel the same. If not, why not! Should we expect that?
Why then do you mock, we who are? You do have that right, many of us bleed and DIED so you could have that right, and many other luxuries.
Of course no answer is necessary, perhaps that is answer enough.
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