Robert 'Bud' McFarlane, Reagan national security adviser, dies at 84

We lost a lot of gQp voters with Covid. Too bad they can't be reasoned with to comprehend just what a gQp Congress and state government do to the people governed. Morons. HRC had it right....deplorables.....President Biden has it right.....Ultra-magats.

guess I was wrong. Well, sayonara, dung-heap. No tears shed here. One traitor down, a few million? to go

I was actually home from work that day and was watching TV when that happened (I think it was a noon presser), because it partially went out over the air. The local station that I was watching caught some of it but managed to cut the feed (thanks to whatever "live broadcast" delay they normally used), so the whole thing didn't get shown on that station here in Philly (I think I was watching channel 6 WPVI). I believe it DID get broadcast on one of the other local stations though (I guess someone wasn't fast enough to cut it). There is uncut video of it out there and am not going to post that but here was one of the news stories afterwards -

it was pretty graphic. He was in front of a podium in his office with reporters, calmly grabbed a large brown mailing envelope, motioned for people to "stay calm", and then reached in, pulled out a long-nose revolver, held it close while continuing to motion for people to stay calm, stuck it in his mouth, and then did the deed - on air.



https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2022/01/budd-dwyers-suicide-becomes-media-dilemma-to-show-or-not-to-show-photos-video.html

captured, tortured, and raped in El Salvador (?).
I remember one of them being interviewed on Nightline.

Who got away with everything concerning Iran Contra. Hell, all of them got away with Iran Contra. GOP'ers usually do, and thanks to Fred Flintstone look alike and fellow treasonous crook Bill Barr, Iran Contra was swept up under the rug.


Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane dies at 84.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, a top aide to President Ronald Reagan who pleaded guilty to charges for his role in an illegal arms-for-hostages deal known as the Iran-Contra affair, has died. He was 84.

McFarlane, who lived in Washington, died Thursday from complications of a previous illness at a hospital in Michigan, where he was visiting family, according to a family statement.

“As his family we wish to share our deep sadness at the loss of our beloved husband, father and grandfather, and note his profound impact on our lives,” the family said in the statement. “Though recognized as a strategic political thinker, we remember him for his warmth, his wisdom, his deep belief in God, and his commitment to serving others.”

McFarlane, a former Marine lieutenant colonel and Vietnam combat veteran, resigned his White House post in December 1985. He was later pressed into service by the administration as part of secret — and illegal — plan to sell arms to Iran in exchange for the freedom of Western hostages in the Middle East and pass along proceeds to the contra rebels in Nicaragua for their fight against the Marxist Sandinista government.

He played a major role in the affair, leading the secret delegation to Tehran, then as now a U.S. adversary, to open contact with so-called moderate Iranians who were thought to hold influence with kidnappers of American hostages. He brought with him a cake and a Bible signed by Reagan.

The scheme began to unfold after a cargo plane carrying a CIA-arranged shipment of arms was shot down in October 1986 by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, setting off what eventually became one of the biggest modern political scandals.

McFarlane was rushed to a Washington-area hospital in February 1987 after taking an overdose of Valium the day before he was scheduled to testify before a presidential commission investigating the Iran-Contra scheme.

He pleaded guilty in March 1988 to four misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress. His lawyer said he was unfairly singled out because he, unlike other key figures, testified willingly before investigative panels. He also admitted his role.

″I did indeed withhold information from the Congress,” he told reporters at the time. “I believe strongly that, throughout, my actions were motivated by what I believed to be in the foreign policy interest of the United States.″

He was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush, along with five other figures from the scandal.

McFarlane, a career Marine known as “Bud” to his friends, had risen to lieutenant colonel and to positions in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as national security special assistant to Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford during their presidencies.

During the Carter administration, he was on the Republican staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He returned to the executive branch with Reagan’s election, serving as a State Department counselor until moving to the White House as national security adviser William Clark’s deputy in January 1982. He was appointed to the top national security post in 1983.

McFarlane, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, was the son of a former Democratic congressman from Texas, William Doddridge McFarlane, who served from 1932 to 1938. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, two daughters and a son.

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Associated Press news researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed from New York.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/05/13/former-national-security-adviser-robert-mcfarlane-dies-84/

McFarlane says there was a cake.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/01/15/McFarlane-says-there-was-a-cake/6776537685200/

...that's too bad...

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