Oooh, burn! How would you like to have that on your record? This was published about 5 weeks ago, so, I"m a bit off timely here but it seems important.
When Iran Took Americans Hostage, Bernie Backed Iran’s Defenders
‘A LOT OF BAGGAGE’
As Democrat Socialists condemned Khomeini’s hostage taking, Sanders stood with a communist party that condemned “Carter’s war drive against the Iranian people.â€
Ronald Radosh
Updated Jan. 17, 2020
Bernie Sanders, a top competitor in the Democratic primaries, has attacked Joe Biden for bringing “just a lot of baggage†into the race. But if past views are a major consideration, consider the baggage that Sanders drags into the campaign.
Go back over 40 years, to the start of Iran’s long conflict with the United States. On April 1, 1979, the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran was proclaimed. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had returned to Iran from exile to assume command of the revolt, became Supreme Leader in December of that year. His rise was accelerated by the seizure on Nov. 4 of 52 American diplomats and citizens, and citizens of other countries, at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The hostage crisis became the means by which the Ayatollah crushed political opponents in Iran. Dealing with the hostage taking became the overwhelming political crisis for President Jimmy Carter. It lasted 444 days.
Virtually all Americans—Democrats, Republicans and independents—united in support of the hostages and the international call for their freedom. One prominent political figure on the 2020 stage, then almost completely unknown, stood apart by joining a Marxist-Leninist party that not only pledged support for the Iranian theocracy, but also justified the hostage taking by insisting the hostages were all likely CIA agents. Who was that person? It was Bernie Sanders.
Read more at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-iran-took-americans-hostage-bernie-backed-irans-defenders
That's some bad, bad stuff. Had anyone even heard about this? I at least, check the stories pretty frequently that are published.
Proof too, that not all coming out of the Daily Beast is bad. Probably because the DB wants a more conventional candidate like MSNBC AND.. DB probably uses some free lance journalists, so good articles do sneak in at a time. I've also been appalled by some Daily Beast articles.
