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."
Two questions, boy. 1) Do you admire Jimmy Carter; 2) Are you a left-winger?
Carter doesn't pound nails for anyone but himself. The reason he is in to Habitat is because it keeps him relevent- it keeps his name in the news. Without that and a timely crisis he couldn't surface every once in a while and get a hearing in the press to put out pink bull-excrement- he would just be ignored or forgotten.
It's like Clinton- who can't bear to be forgotten because if he is, he wouldn't get freebies, givfts, or girls, or be able to stroll into restaurants and get preferred seating... and nobody would foot the bill.
Don't think anything they do is out of the goodness of their hearts.
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ZOT!
LOL! That's happened to me before. Are you perchance the same Nik Naym who used to hang out in The Great Debate on Prodigy? Just wondering. If so, this is PICKY. :o)
One and the same!
How ya doin' Pick?
Nik
Wonder why it is the Democrats since Frankie Roosevelt (who's top advisor was Alger Hiss - a Soviet Spy) have had such a keen fascination and fondness for Communism?
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