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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.

Mr. Carter’s camp has long suspected that Mr. Casey or someone else in Mr. Reagan’s orbit sought to secretly torpedo efforts to liberate the hostages before the election, and books have been written on what came to be called the October surprise. But congressional investigations debunked previous theories of what happened.

Mr. Connally did not figure in those investigations. His involvement, as described by Mr. Barnes, adds a new understanding to what may have happened in that hard-fought, pivotal election year. With Mr. Carter now 98 and in hospice care, Mr. Barnes said he felt compelled to come forward to correct the record.”

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This borders on treason. Those prisoners ostensibly were held in captivity for an extra 6 months just to help Reagan. We know they were tortured and violated while in captivity. Wtf. [/quote]

Yeah, the article ends with this quote:

“I just want history to reflect that Carter got a little bit of a bad deal about the hostages,” he said. “He didn’t have a fighting chance with those hostages still in the embassy in Iran.”

Like the hostages themselves didn't matter one bit. It's all about the people in power and everybody else is a stupid pawn in their schemes. Politicians are truly scum.[/quote]
I don’t think it’s suitable or sensible to both sides this one, especially not when we lost the second term of one of the most decent humans who ever occupied the Oval. The GOP did this to sink Carter and it worked; why it’s not made a bigger deal of, I really don’t know, but it allows people like you to say that it’s just “people in power,” and you’re saying it on a thread about Jimmy Carter for gosh sakes. [/quote]
+1 And Connally was close with Nixon who did the same thing - sabotaging the peace talks in Vietnam - to win in 1968.[/quote]

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