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To: dan6 who wrote (73843)	5/2/2011 2:57:51 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219648

Thanks dan6. I made further clarifications for him. "the late William J. Casey, campaign boss and subsequent head of the CIA, held secret parleys with the Iranians in which a deal was hatched: The hostages would be held till after the election, and in return the new administration would send arms to Tehran." Representative Jack Brooks (Texas) - Instead of operating within rules and law, we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nations, trading arms for hostages, involving the U.S. government in military activity in direct contravention of the law, diverting public funds into private pockets and secret unofficial activities, selling access to the President for thousands of dollars, dispensing cash and foreign money orders out of a White House safe, accepting gifts and falsifying papers to cover it up, altering and shredding national security documents, lying the Congress. Now, I believe that the American people understand that democracy cannot withstand that kind of abuse.

To: dan6 who wrote (73843)	5/2/2011 2:59:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219648

In fact, it was the Iranians who were holding the hostages and deciding when they would release them. <As I understand it, military insiders scuttled Carter's re-election bid by waiting until after the election to release the hostages. > At the time, it was obvious that the hostages were electoral bargaining chips, but the Iranians were far better off with Carter than with Reagan so should have released them in an effort to keep Carter in. But they were Islamic Jihadists so didn't have good sense. They didn't know that President Reagan would have Donald Rumsfeld sic Saddam onto Iran resulting in horrific carnage for years. Mqurice