october surprise

I've begun to read some of the available info on the original October Surprise during the fall of 1980. It's been alledged that Regan's people and the CIA orchestrated a deal to sell arms to Iran if they waited to release the hostages until after the election. I tried a search and didn't come...

A video or audio tape, that is. If he does, this either plays into the hands of a man who has always prided himself on being foriegn-policy based: McCain, or it plays into the hands of a man who has stressed that the Administration has diverted resources from Afghanistan and has failed to...

There goes Johnny again... http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/mccain-agrees-with-bushs-remarks/ Where's Joe Lieberman when you need him? It seems that McCain's Reagan worship is obscuring his memory of the Iran Contra scandal.