Dennis Kucinich shows he's a card carrying member.
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."
The book also talks about how the Soviets had the leader of the German parliament and a Scandavian Prime Minister on the payroll. They were Soviet agents.
Given the Soviet penetration at these levels in other countries, combined with their penetration in this country (Ames, Hansen, etc....), I find it hard to believe that they did not have American Congressmen on the payroll as well.
It is my ardent desire to see these traitors exposed and dealt with appropriately.
And while we're on the subject of Soviet interventions in American politics, let's not forget that they also murdered a man who was likely to win election as President in 1988.
You can say that again. I mean if a woman went on national television not once but twice and accused a democratic President of raping her, I`m sure even that would be ignored, unbelieveable as that may sound. Oh wait...
In 1968, the Nixon campaign was concerned that President Johnson would make progress before the election at the Paris peace talks to negotiate an end to the war in Viet Nam. The Nixon campaign reportedly tried to stall any progress by convincing the South VietNam government not to join the peace negotiations as they would get a better deal from a Nixon administration.
In the book October Surprise, historian Gary Sick alleged that the 1980 Reagan campaign contacted the Iranians through William Casey to encourage them not to release the hostages until after the election, again with the promise of a better deal. I believe that there were congressional hearings about these charges although I don't know what the results were.
In 1968, the Nixon campaign was concerned that President Johnson would make progress before the election at the Paris peace talks to negotiate an end to the war in Viet Nam. The Nixon campaign reportedly tried to stall any progress by convincing the South VietNam government not to join the peace negotiations as they would get a better deal from a Nixon administration.
There is one very important difference. South Vietnam was an ally of they United States. The Soviet Union was the putative enemy of the United States. Also incumbent DemocRAT president was trying to undermine (backstab) an ally to help the DemocRAT Vice-President and presidental candidate Hubert Humphrey, while the Republican presidential candidate was promising to help an ally.
In 1984 the former DemocRAT president was trying to enlist the help of the number one enemy of they United States to try to defeat the sitting President of the United States. If that had occurred during wartime it would have been treason.
Dennis Kucinich shows he's a card carrying member.
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