Crackpot History From “The Straight Talk Express”

I updated an earlier post on the latest Obama-bashing with this link to today’s Times story by Elisabeth Bumiller, who once more continues to actually practice journalism again by following up when McCain says something stupid (memo to Pinch – give her a raise).

However, I'd like to focus on something else from John W. McBush...

“I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.'’

Oh boy…

This links to some rather voluminous information detailing the arms-for-hostages deal negotiated with, among others, incoming Reagan CIA head William Casey in October 1980 before The Sainted Ronnie R took office in 1981 (after he was sworn in, arms shipments flowed through Israel to Iran and our hostages were released). And it is possible that this would never have come to light had not the second attempt to deal arms for hostages to Iran in 1986 blown up in their faces (which was a violation of the Boland Amendment, let’s not forget – tells you what the Repugs thought of Congress then as now).

I suppose, though, that “Senator Honor And Virtue” should be forgiven for this slipup, seeing as how he was busy during the ‘80s helping to utterly destroy our savings and loan institutions (as noted here) and was perhaps distracted from other news.