Posted on 02/23/2013 9:08:14 AM PST by Borges
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Citing one key discrepancy in the film, the former United States president made this point:
"...90 percent of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian," notes the 88-year-old. "The movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA. And with that exception, the movie's very good."
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gives him THE opportunity
In the words of H - “What difference does it make?” - but Carter wishes nothing the USA did could be portrayed as good.
My understanding is that the hostages were released on Carter’s last day in office because the Muslims hated him and wanted to stick it to him.
Islamic terrorism against the United States happened because Jimmy Carter failed as a leader to take defensive action when our embassy was overrun, and Carter should never be praised other than his ordering the rescue attempt after months of hem-hawing.
There is Much evidence Carter abandoned the Shah
The movie was a good movie as far as cinema goes, but it was horrible history:
http://www.rescueattempt.com/id24.html
Not hard to be accurate with that prediction, considering ultra leftist, revisionist Hollywood PC.
Still, if you have the slightest ability to read between the lines, you can conclude that Carter had to be coerced into final support of the escape plan by insubordination, setting up a administration publicity disaster if Carter refused support.
I suggest you expect to be irritated by the opening Marxist revisionist history and character assassination narrative, but after that, there are a lot of interesting scenes.
What was Marxist about the opening section?
These rescue plot films usually make me a little envious. In Feb
of 1945 elements of my dad’s paratroop regiment and division,
along w/Filipino guerillas stormed a Japanese prison camp and
freed 2147 mostly American prisoners who were starving. The
assault came from the air, land, and from across a large lake.
No “internee” was seriously hurt during the carefully planned
operation but the Japanese garrison was all but wiped out.
The Los Banos Raid is still considered one of the most
successful operations of its kind and the planning and execution
aspects of it are taught at the War College to this day.
But you won’t see an Argo type movie about it . I don’t
know why. It might have something to do with the fact
that the event was overshadowed by the raising of
the US flag on Mt Surabachi my the Marines which
soaked up much of the media attention on the same
day.
And to think, Clinton nearly took Carter out. He had the chance. Planes were ready to go in.
Yep, the goatbanging Muslim Mullahs, and everybody else in Iran knew their remaining lifetime was measured in minutes if they held American hostages on American soil when Reagan took office.
See my post #25.
I thought it was good movie. Whenever I’m with Canadian friends, I always toast them, eh? I watched it primarily to see if they’d show a fleeting shot of my old office building on the embassy compound. They didn’t. That was where the “student militants” (aka Moslem thugs) kept our hostages for 444 days.
Now.... Fast-Forward to 2012.
Still, if you have the slightest ability to read between the lines, you can conclude that Obama had to be coerced into final support of the Bin Laden capture plan by insubordination, setting up a administration publicity disaster if Obama refused support.
The "Democratically Elected" government immediately previous to the re installation of the Shah, was no such thing.
It was a Communist puppet government financed, engineered and installed by the Soviet Union (Russia).
Russia was seeking a warm water port, and territory to insulate their expanding ballistic missile testing/launching areas from intelligence observation.
The CIA reinstalled the Shah because he was pro American, would deny Russia the port, and allow CIA monitoring of Russia's missile testing.
Carter was too stupid and to pinko to understand that the Mullahs would steal the Iranian government from the Commies Carter intended to install. They lasted less than two weeks.
Any Marxist, of course, is happy to be left out of the story, because the Shah was actually only hard on the commies, and nowhere near the the tyrant portrayed by Argo's opening narration.
Argo is only 3% accurate: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/12/argo_true_story_the_facts_and_fiction_behind_the_ben_affleck_movie.html
Can’t argue with that.
What I’ve read suggested that Mossadegh was hostile to communism and that Britain told us a tall tale to ensure our help. It was primarily a British-Iranian conflict. Is there hard evidence these days that he was a Stalinist puppet?
Do the world a favor and STFU, Jimmah. He could tell me I’ve won the Publishers’ Clearing House grand prize and it’d still pi$$ me off.
Along with the 'volunteer' Audience Rating System used by filmmakers, there should be a Accuracy Content Rating System.
Plausible Deniability.
If it went wrong, heck, nobody would be bothered by blaming the Canadians.
On a more serious note, this is exactly why ECHELON was set up in foreign countries. It made spying on one's own citizens 'legal'. We spied for them, they spied for us, and nobody was 'technically' breaking the laws of their own country.
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