from Online Journal
The biggest unreported
crime in history:
Nixon operative tanked Vietnam peace talks
just to ensure Tricky Dick's 1968 victory
By Tamara Baker
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 26 -- I just found out something that
makes me
physically ill.
The next time some Freeper or Limbaugh-lover tries to tell me
that Nixon
was better than Clinton, or that old CIA hand George Herbert
Walker Bush
wouldn't cut deals with Khomeini in order to ensure Ronald Reagan's
election, I'm going to hit him (and it will be a "him" in all
likelihood) upside the head with this little tidbit from an April
27,
1998 U.S. News article by Ronald Brownstein
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980427/27scre.htm
* ...Compare any of this with the final hours of the 1968 presidential
race, when Hubert Humphrey learned that Anna Chan Chennault,
one of
Richard M. Nixon's most active supporters, had worked to sabotage
the
opening of peace negotiations in Vietnam -- and yet withheld
the
information, which might have devastated Nixon's campaign, because
he
believed his rival had been unaware of her intrigues...
Read that paragraph again. Let it sink in.
Richard Nixon and the GOP were so anxious to get back into the
White
House in 1968 that they deliberately arranged for the Vietnam
War to be
prolonged in order to achieve their goal.
Tens of thousands of young Americans, and hundreds of thousands
of
Vietnamese, died in the seven years from 1968 to 1975, all so
Richard
Milhous Nixon could become president.
Every American since 1968 who lost a loved one to the Vietnam
War,
whether in combat or by fleeing to Canada, has Richard Nixon
to blame
for their loss.
This is genuine, impeachable cut-and-dried treason, folks. As
offenses
go, this makes getting adulterous nookie from a willing partner
look
like the action of a saint.
Yet why, why, WHY have we not heard more about this?
Meanwhile, it seems that Republican operative Anna Chan Chennault,
for
whom Claire Chennault, the head of the anti-communist "Flying
Tigers"
CIA-sponsored air group, left his wife of 35 years and eight
children,
is still alive and still active in politics, this time in Sino-American
relations:
From The U.S. Flying Tigers
http://www.sinohost.com/yunnan_travel/kunming/flying_tigers.html
* ...Even Today " Flying Tigers " (fei hu dui in Chinese Pinying)
is
still a household name. Anna Chan, the wife of general [sic]
Chennault,
the creator and head of Flying Tigers, is still active in building
the
sound friendship between Amercans and Chinese. Recently, the
publishing
of Anna Chan's Chennault and me [sic] is an influential event
in China....
Ironically, an "Anna Chennault" turns up as a contributor to John
McCain
http://www.mccain2000.com/ind2000/C.html,
of all people:
* Mrs. Anna Chennault $100.00 DC
If this is the same lady as Claire Chennault's widow, is she perhaps
feeling that her $100 pledge might compensate him for five unncessary
years as a POW in a war she herself prolonged, at Richard Nixon's
command?
And I wonder what John McCain would do, if he knew that he need
not have
spent five brutal years as a POW, had Madame Chennault not carried
out
the GOP's orders?
You know, conservatives like to mock the concept of the "October
Surprise,"
wherein George Herbert Walker Bush used his CIA and Big Oil ties
to cut a deal
with Ayatollah Khomeini to keep holding the American captives
hostage until
Reagan had beaten Carter in the 1980 elections.
Despite the mountains of evidence that show otherwise, they keep
claiming that there's no proof that the GOP ever tried to do
anything so
vile, and that in any event, the GOP would never do anything
so vile.
Richard Nixon's treachery in Vietnam proves them wrong. Dead wrong.
The vast majority of the names on the Vietnam Wall in DC were
put there because
of Richard M. Nixon and the Republican Party. If they were willing
to keep the war going
just to win the White House, they certainly wouldn't balk at
making sure Khomeini held onto
the hostages long enough to ensure Jimmy Carter's defeat.
And now, George W. Bush, the son of the GOP's point man in Iran
(and
later, Iran-Contra), is running for president.
It is your patriotic duty as an American to vote against him in
November.
Copyright © 2000 Tamara Baker. All rights
reserved.