Jim Webb Calls The Iran Bluff

Mr 70,

I have no idea how you could come away thinking of Reagan as a hero of the book. But you know the Barbara Feldon thing, so your's critical reading of it must be spot on. BTW (red herring dept) Great rip job on Karen Crouse, spoken like a man who would trade a testicle for a story on a NFL star who was sexually abused as a young man. Which story is yours in BASW?

YHS, etc

 

Fof -my apoligies - I was responding to the irrational pm that you sent me complaining about my treatment of Karen crouse. I had thought I was sending you pm and had not realized I was posting to webb thread.

 

Misstur 70,

No, the apoligy is mine. I thought I was posting a re-pli and instead I sent a messig to your's box. Miscommunications like this prolly led to Iran-Contra. Who's got a pardon? Hero? Hero?

Your's Umblar Survamp, ibid op cit

 

No trouble - here is the message that you mistakenly PM'ed me - now it is in correct spot:

 

Mr 70,

Yup. "Thats" it.

YHS, etc

 

Nightengale's Song is excellent. Webb is simply a bad ass.

 

I thought this was the remake of 'Get Smart.'

 

A more cutting insult of Wellstone I've never seen.

 

Boom --
Vietnam vets was my first beat in the business, from 1979-1983. Reagan cut the hell out of the VA budget for everything from outpatient care to PTSD research. He stonewalled on Agent Orange. His VA director, a guy named Robert Nimmo, used to regularly dismiss the legitimate health care needs of the vets. He actually once used the word, "crybabies."
So, no. You're wrong. Reagan wasn't a hero to the average Vietnam vet. He was the guy who closed their clinics.

 

In context of Timberg book he was.

 

Maybe, but that's an awfully limited context.
And the "stab in the back" elements of the Timberg book, especially as related to that authoritarian freak Ollie North, really torpedoed that book's credibility.