Jimmy Carter says it was 90% the Canadians in Argo...
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This has also been mentioned in the other threads.
Then again on TERB you are preaching to the choir.
Then again on TERB you are preaching to the choir.
President Carter was a good man and the last honest and moral POTUS the USA has had in ages.....:thumb:
As to the issue of Canadian Passports for the six Americans, this is the information I got:
The Canadian government passed an extraordinary order-in-council in secret to allow foreign nationals to be issued "real" Canadian passports for humanitarian reasons. The passports were sent to Iran in a Canadian diplomatic pouch. There was no "film crew". The six "houseguests" were already in Iran as American consular officials. The Canadian plan was to take them through the airport as Canadian business people. This would have worked just fine since no Iranian officials ever asked anything about their occupations. The U.S. stalled and wanted the C.I.A. involved so sent in two agents. The Canadian government refused to issue Canadian passports to the C.I.A.agents. The six chose the "film crew" plan from three options given them. Flora McDonald thought it was a "silly" idea playing "Hollywood" and drawing attention to themselves. Luckily no Iranian officials cared about Canadians leaving the country. The six left along with other Canadians at the airport. This would have made for a less thrilling, but more accurate movie.
The Canadian government passed an extraordinary order-in-council in secret to allow foreign nationals to be issued "real" Canadian passports for humanitarian reasons. The passports were sent to Iran in a Canadian diplomatic pouch. There was no "film crew". The six "houseguests" were already in Iran as American consular officials. The Canadian plan was to take them through the airport as Canadian business people. This would have worked just fine since no Iranian officials ever asked anything about their occupations. The U.S. stalled and wanted the C.I.A. involved so sent in two agents. The Canadian government refused to issue Canadian passports to the C.I.A.agents. The six chose the "film crew" plan from three options given them. Flora McDonald thought it was a "silly" idea playing "Hollywood" and drawing attention to themselves. Luckily no Iranian officials cared about Canadians leaving the country. The six left along with other Canadians at the airport. This would have made for a less thrilling, but more accurate movie.
The reason that Argo is receiving accolades and Zero dark Thirty isn't is that it casts the USA in an unfavourable light. The item of the film that isn't being disputed is the willingness of the Bush/Obama Administrations of scuttling the hunt for bin Laden in favour of better protection for the homeland. This would have been an egregious mistake that would have led to another 9/11. The torture scenes in the film were actually tame, there was no actual waterboarding used in the film.
Flora McDonald may have been the Minister of External Affairs, but when it comes to having experience in successfully exfiltrating people from hostile environments I'd have to put my life with Tony Mendez.
There was a very good reason why no Iranian officials cared.
Why do you always have to go too far.
You post something accurate #12, but then go on to this!
Wow the chin strap on the ol' hockey helmet is a little tight today. Some one woke up on the wrong side of the gurney. Remeber you need to wake up on the right side.....that is where the care worker leaves your daily meds.
As for the hostage release as soon as Reagan hit office.....never hear of Iran-Contra?
This is the type of guy who should have his guns taken away from him........Nut Case
