On Rubio's spreading the now debunked story that Reagan's election got our hostages freed.

[CTyankee]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/17/marco-rubio/rubio-wrongly-credits-reagan-1981-release-hostages/

Great read. We were all misled about this and it's still going on. Lies, damn lies...

[guillaumeb]

1. The point of the Iran Contra scandal was that the operation run by

George H.W. Bush was designed to delay release of the hostages so Reagan could take the credit. Marco Rubio is the same tired GOP nonsense in a slightly younger package. So much for his fresh new approach.

[Botany]

2. HW Bush met w/Iranians in Paris in Oct. 2000 and promised them weapons and stuff ...

... in order to delay the release of the hostages until after the election.

Iran Contra made watergate look like nothing.

[erpowers]

3. Bring Up Beirut

It would be better to bring up the 1983 Beirut bombings. It is too easy for Republicans to claim that a bunch of liberal professors and media people are lying to protect Jimmy Carter. They cannot blame Jimmy Carter, or liberals for the Beirut bombing, or for President Reagan's response.

On October, 23, 1983, two years after Ronald Reagan had been elected President, two truck bombs exploded in Lebanon. One of those bombs exploded at the building housing American military personnel. That bombing killed 241 American servicemen(220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 Soldiers) and injured 128 servicemen. On February 7, 1984 President Reagan ordered American troops to withdraw from Lebanon. The withdrawal was complete by February 26, 1984.

[CTyankee]

4. yep. Ronnie turned tail and ran...

[Gothmog]

5. Rubio is an idiot