As expected, my letter regarding the great white hunter and the inappropriateness of it, didn't make the op-ed pages of the Daily Rag. What did, was a column by convicted felon Oliver North criticizing President Obama for "selling out" Israel. Why does anyone lend any credence to this man, a principal player in one of the worst foreign policy failures in the last half of the 20th century? As an ...aside, and because I just remembered it, guess who benefitted from financial interest in the company that made the missiles illegally sold to Iran? Rick Santorum! For all his posturing about honor, fair play, etc, Santorum was a principal enabler for the company in his home state of PA which was manufacturing and (knowingly) illegally syphoning them off to Iran. Talk about being morally bankrupt!
This as a way of expanding on what I just posted:
"To round out the list of Republicans, there’s Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who was very young at that time. When he was still Congressman Santorum, he profited immensely through that ISC scandal (International Signals and Controls) in Scranton, Pennsylvania. You probably remember the deal. Gordon and Jacobson ran it. And Gordon wound up going ...to jail. Jacobson quietly left the country and now lives in Israel. But Santorum profited quite handsomely off that deal as did Arlen Specter."
They went to jail, or left the country, Santorum went to the US Senate!
ISC made guidance systems and fabricated a significant portion of the hardware for the Hawk missiles illegally channeled to Iran in a direct negation of the Reagan stated policy of "never negotiating for hostages." While I don't criticize President Reagan for doing it, (one of the few cases where he abandoned rhetorical doctrine in favor of good sense) I loathe the follow on actions (by all credible accounts, known and approved by both Reagan and VP Bush) to channel the funds from these sales to the Contras, in direct violation of an act of Congress (The Boland Amendment). For this North and SecDef Caspar Weinberger were convicted of felonies, later pardoned by Reagan on his way out the door. Teflon Ron and Poppy Bush simply lied their way out of it. Consider the irony: Clinton lies about a moral lapse - impeachment; Bush/Reagan lie about a real crime against the nation - still waiting!
"To round out the list of Republicans, there’s Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who was very young at that time. When he was still Congressman Santorum, he profited immensely through that ISC scandal (International Signals and Controls) in Scranton, Pennsylvania. You probably remember the deal. Gordon and Jacobson ran it. And Gordon wound up going ...to jail. Jacobson quietly left the country and now lives in Israel. But Santorum profited quite handsomely off that deal as did Arlen Specter."
They went to jail, or left the country, Santorum went to the US Senate!
ISC made guidance systems and fabricated a significant portion of the hardware for the Hawk missiles illegally channeled to Iran in a direct negation of the Reagan stated policy of "never negotiating for hostages." While I don't criticize President Reagan for doing it, (one of the few cases where he abandoned rhetorical doctrine in favor of good sense) I loathe the follow on actions (by all credible accounts, known and approved by both Reagan and VP Bush) to channel the funds from these sales to the Contras, in direct violation of an act of Congress (The Boland Amendment). For this North and SecDef Caspar Weinberger were convicted of felonies, later pardoned by Reagan on his way out the door. Teflon Ron and Poppy Bush simply lied their way out of it. Consider the irony: Clinton lies about a moral lapse - impeachment; Bush/Reagan lie about a real crime against the nation - still waiting!
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