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To: Diddle E. Squat
There's the famous "Bush Sr. flies an SR-71 to Paris to make sure that the Iranian hostages aren't released until after the (1980 Presidential) election", that surfaced, I believe a week or two before the 1988 Pres. election. If memory serves me right, that was the one that coined the phrase "October Surprise".
29 posted on 10/02/2003 5:59:21 AM PDT by lafroste
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To: lafroste
Re: the orignin of "October surprise" and more

Limbaugh was perhaps the first to point out that "the appearance of impropriety" has become all the left claims is needed to support their mainstream's frenzy of accusations of wrong doing and demands for investigations -- plus supporting polls once the apolitical public has been conditioned.

Wild claims were made that Reagan and Bush had made a deal with Iran that delayed the release of the hostages until after the 1980 election, "the October surprise." There was the usual supporting mainstream press frenzy as the stories recycled in 1991. Evidence? None.

Then Speaker of the House Tom Foley said that Congress needed to investigate precisely because there wasn't any evidence to substantiate the allegation.

There was however "the appearance of impropriety." So how do you discourse with these Stalinist-like campaigns of lies? Answer, you cannot.

There is no peaceful solution. It is the left's decision to have it settled by violence. They will not change and we cannot continue as a Nation divided in this manner.

They destroyed one wartime administration a generation ago. They are out to destroy another wartime administration and this war is for all the marbles. Their war against America is just as important for us to win as the bigger war defending against radical Islam.

31 posted on 10/02/2003 7:34:13 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael
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