Former American defense, national security and diplomatic officials have combined to express alarm over Al Gore's secret agreement allowing Russia to slip arms to Iran.
It is unprecedented that a high-level bipartisan critique of a sitting vice president, involving such a delicate national security development, would be made publicly.
According to the Washington Times, which uncovered the furtive back-channel 1995 deal Gore made with his close friend, Viktor Chernomyrdin, then the Russian prime minister:
A bipartisan group of 11 leading national security officials and former secretaries of defense and state has issued a scathing report denouncing the agreement Gore made in secret with Chernomyrdin to keep Russia's arming of Iran from being revealed to Congress and the American public.
In their joint statement, issued through the office of former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, the American experts said:
"The military balance in regions of vital interest to America and her allies – including the Persian Gulf, which is a critical source of the world's energy supplies – is the essential underpinning for a strong foreign policy.
"That is why we are deeply disturbed by the agreement made between Vice President Gore and then-Russian Premier Chernomyrdin in which America acquiesced in the sale by Russia to Iran of highly threatening military equipment such as modern submarines, fighter planes and wake-homing torpedoes.
"We also find incomprehensible that this agreement was not fully disclosed even to those committees of Congress charged with receiving highly classified briefings – apparently at the request of the Russian premier.
"But agreement to his request is even more disturbing since the Russian sales could have brought sanctions against Russia in accordance with a 1992 U.S. law sponsored by Sen. John McCain and then-Sen. Al Gore."
FRegards, Balata
"Persistence is the key."
Yep...a Relentless Pursuit of Justice!!
RE-IMPEACH. CONVICT. DETHRONE.
DISBAR. DE-PENSION. DE-LEGITIMIZE.
INDICT. CONVICT. IMPRISON. DISCARD KEY.
Can there be any other conclusion to the Clinton Era?!
FReegards...MUD
Brith Hume said it best the other day, the Left has a well-earned reputation for distrusting American Military might more than that possessed by our adversaries. He didn't say the words, but I believe Mr. Hume was, in essence, saying that the Left believes the wrong side won the Cold War!!
And I agree with him...the American Left is WRONG, and must be dealt a death-blow in November!!
FReegards...MUD