January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

According to the emeritus professor of history (Gerry the know-it-all), only the
republicans supported the Shah and his thugs.The reality is that the US
occupied Iran during WW11 under President Truman (a democrat). In 1953, again
under democrat Truman, the elected Iran prime minister Dr Mossades, was deposed
by the Shah in a US-backed coup. After being installed in power through
President Truman's connivance, the Shah remained in charge of Iran from 1953 to
1979. Democrat Presidents Kennedy and Johnson dealt with him respectively from
1961 to 1969, propping up his regime. President Carter (democrat) dealt
with the Shah from 1977 until 1979 when he fled Iran. For 10 of the Shah's 26
years in power, democrats helped him survive. In fact, democrats put him in
power and were desperately trying to prop up his regime when he fled Iran in
1979. Shortly afterwards, the militant Iranian students took 70
Americans captive from the Tehran embassy (on the democrat watch of Carter) and
they were not released until the day of President Reagan's (republican)
inauguration.So Gerry's accusation that (only) the "republicans backed
the Shah of Iran and his thugs for years" is historically wrong, unfair, and
untrue. The Shah of Iran was a creation of the democrats.I'm not trying
to be unkind, but Gerry gets so many things wrong, it's impossible to take him
seriously. Gerry, everyone has a forte, but boxing, politics and history
are obviously not yours. |
|12/6/04 03:04:40 AM|Howard C.|---||---||||10|Kent,Sorry to be
contradictory, but you are wrong and your dislike of President Reagan fuels your
bias.I will quote from a book published this year called 'PRESIDENTS -
EVERY QUESTION ANSWERED", authored by Carter Smith. At page 257 it
states,"A Muslim terrorist drove an explosive-laden truck into the US
Marine Corps' Headquarters in Beirut leaving 241 marines dead. Reagan had sent
American marines to Lebanon with the intention of restoring peace to the war-
torn nation after a number of Muslim groups revolted against the Christian
government. The marines were soon subjected to attacks from the warring Lebanese
factions, many of which represented anti-American, pro-Iranian groups.In
the face of increasing attacks from PLO snipers on American marine forces, the
Reagan administration had authorized the marines to shell Muslim positions in
the hills above Beirut. In spite of the subsequent escalation in attacks
against US forces, including car-bomb attack on the American embassy, the
administration kept the marines in Beirut to demonstrate its commitment to
resolving the conflict in Lebanon, while ensuring influence in the
area.The bombing of US marine headquarters in Beirut provoked widespread
public outcry for the withdrawal of American forces from Lebanon. Congress even
threatened to use the 1973 War Powers Act to force a withdrawal of all American
forces from Beirut. On February 7, 1984, President Reagan agrees to transfer the
marines to naval vessels in the Mediterranean....."Therefore, Kent, you
are wrong in saying that "Reagan pulled the troops out and never vigoriously
persued (sic) those who were responsible."Kent - Reagan wanted to stay;
it was Congress (controlled by the deomocrats) that forced him to pull them out.
You had no right to call anyone a "fathead" and you remind me of that
arrogant left-wing ranter Noam Chomsky. Like him, you can't get anything right.
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|12/6/04 04:01:38 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Comparing President Reagan to
President Clinton ? Kent you gotta get a brain. Clinton was the guy who
said that he smoked marijuana, but never inhaled it. He was the guy who denied
the allegations of Paula Jones, but then gave her $850,000.00 to keep quiet
about it. He was held in contempt of court for falsely testifying during that
lawsuit deposition.Clinton also denied the Lewinsky affair, but later
confessed to lying people about it. He also denied that he had sex with her by
ridiculously claiming that he didn't consider oral sex was really sex, etc.
Clinton is a self-admitted serial liar and he has nothing in common with
President Reagan. Kent is a "fathead" and a leftie stooge for suggesting