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Muskie and Kerry
American Thinker, by Jacques Porter

Original Article

Posted By:DW626, 12/28/2012 6:12:59 AM

In 1980 Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had resigned due to his opposition to the proposed "Eagle Claw" military mission to rescue the U.S. hostages being held in Iran. Operation Eagle Claw (The first ever use of the U.S. Delta Force) proved to be a complete failure and claimed the lives of six servicemen. U.S. prestige in the world was at an all time low due to the hostage crisis and the USSR flexing its muscles in Afghanistan.

Comments:
Any bets on how soon Kerry´s wife says something inappropriate?

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: uno_thatguy, 12/28/2012 6:48:24 AM     (No. 9087038)

He´s the epitome of inappropriate. Why wait for his wife to help him out?


Reply 2 - Posted by: stablemoney, 12/28/2012 7:21:05 AM     (No. 9087066)

It would seem impossible to dislike every member of any group of people, but the democratic party is unique in that fashion.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Grambo, 12/28/2012 8:18:19 AM     (No. 9087145)

Any club that would be collegial to John Kerry, I would not want to belong to.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Spidey, 12/28/2012 8:36:52 AM     (No. 9087170)

The republicans possibly holding Kerry´s hearings hostage until Hillary testifies about Benghazi is an interesting ploy but I wonder if it will hold up.She´s supposed to return to work next week,whatever that means.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 12/28/2012 8:38:01 AM     (No. 9087171)

Was Vance´s opposition to the use of Delta Force, or to the working plan itself? Just curious about that. One of the things of my youth I vividly remember are the graphic pictures of the burned bodies of those Delta guys on a magazine cover.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Boston Federalist, 12/28/2012 9:11:41 AM     (No. 9087227)

Eight men, not six, died in the failed Iranian rescue mission.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Boston Federalist, 12/28/2012 9:15:37 AM     (No. 9087239)

Also, # 5, the eight who died were crewmen on the two aircraft, not members of the Delta Force. Five were Air Force crewmen who were on the plane, and three were Marines on the helicopter which crashed into the plane. I do not mean to quibble, and I say this respectfully, but I remember that vividly as well.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: snowoutlaw, 12/28/2012 10:41:26 AM     (No. 9087405)

Under Carter U.S. prestige in the world was at an all time low, that is until now.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Rafter, 12/28/2012 4:31:36 PM     (No. 9087858)

How low... can we go... ?

The Limbo president.

Or would that be...
the presidential limbo... ?

BillyBoob Klintoon spent his time doing the horizontal mambo.
Bambi has taken us lower and lower in his presidential limbo.

Just how low... will we go... ?



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