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From: dave@garfield.UUCP (David Janes)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberals
Message-ID: <1788@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 19:49:17 EST
Article-I.D.: garfield.1788
Posted: Thu Nov  1 19:49:17 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 13:42:35 EST
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Reply-To: dave@garfield.UUCP (David Janes)
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| Article <569@loral.UUCP> by rfs@loral.UUCP 
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| Under Mondale we will go back to a "punching bag" for a foreign policy.
| Under the Carter/Mondale administration the president of the
| United States was negotiating with the student terrorists in Iran.
| RONALD REAGAN freed the american hostages held in Iran the day he
| took office. Iran knew it could "punch" the Carter/Mondale
| administration around but not Ronald Reagan so they let the hostages
| go the day (the hour) Reagan took over.

Reminds me of a certain Doonsbury (sp?) cartoon:

	(two Iranians speaking to each other)
	1: What's black, flat, 5 miles around, and glows in the dark?
	2: Sounds like us 5 minutes after Reagan gets elected...

However, the Iranians never released the hostages when they did because 
Ronald Regan was elected, rather, they did it to spite good ol' Jimmy.
I tend to think that in 1980, the Iranians would have welcomed an attack
by the US (the Great Satan) or at least they would have said so. Of course, 
if it ever happened they would change their minds fairly quickly.

| Message-ID: <186@aluxz.UUCP>
| From: mrh@aluxz.UUCP (HUDOCK)
| 
| [a followup to this article]
| [intire text of parent article deleted]
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| ONE OF THE FEW ARTICLES ON THIS NET WORTH READING.

unlike yours...

dave (the Mercenary Programmer)
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