Subject: Re: Putin's Christmas List

I voted for Nixon to get us out of Nam, and later found out Nixon's people met with the Vietnamese, put a kabosh on LBJ's negotiations to end the war, and actually extended the war. I was a Republican back then.

There was chatter, for a long time, that Saint Reagan's people did a deal with Iran, so that they would not release the hostages while Carter was POTUS. The hostages were released the day Reagan was inaugurated.

Some of us also remember when Congress defunded Reagan's "contras", because they were terrorists. So Reagan violated the US arms embargo on Iran, to sell them weapons, and use the proceeds to fund the contras.

Remember the stories about a Reagan flunky delivering a cake to the Ayatollahs?

A delegation led by former National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane carried a chocolate cake “from a kosher bakery in Tel Aviv” when they flew to Tehran to meet the strict Islamic leaders in secret last May, according to the report of the presidential commission that investigated the Iran- contras scandal.

https://www.latimes.com/archiv...

Then Bush 41 pardoned everyone, to cover the entire, wildly illegal, mess, up.

Steve