October Surprise Lawyer Charade

October Surprise was allegedly a lawyerly lie concocted by Democrats to turn some of their lawyer friends loose with taxpayer money against their opposition party, the naive, hapless, innocent-as-babes-in-the-woods guiless, Republican perpetual victim-chumps. It appears that they "leaned on" Admiral Poindexter perhaps by some scandal photoshopped trap, threatened him with disgrace and loss of pension, and "turned him". After all, he was defenseless against such a gang of lawyer-led weasels and jackels. People who "blog alone" can allegedly tell what MAY have transpired since looking back over 20 years gives a better perspective than the here and now. Who one believes depends greatly on perspective. Poindexter knew the Republicans could have truth on their side, which gets you smeared but your true friends understand.
Allegedly, an August 22, 1985 memo from Admiral John Poindexter to National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane states that Capt. Gunther Karl Russbacher ( 1942-2005) piloted a DC 6 loaded with some of 408 Tow missiles given to Iran in the Iran-Contra deal. Oliver North aboard! Missiles mistakenly taken to the wrong Iranian unit! Robert Hunt was there. Allegedly Hunt was or is presently in prison. Among Poindexter’s memos were descriptions of money put into accounts. A May 30 Oliver North alleged memo to the admiral describes a snafu or goof in negotiations with the Iranians, which Russbacher attended. A June 16 memo from VP Bush to Poindexter allegedly asks Oliver North to thank Hunt and Russbacher for their efforts. A November 11, 1993 letter from Mossad agent Moshe Ben-Manash allegedly confirmed the jive fiction of the Iran/Conra exchange of missiles and Russbacher’s alleged role.
Allegedly piloting the SR -71 plane Russbacher sped George H. W. Bush to Paris, France on October 19, 1980 to negotiate the October Surprise at the Hotel Crillion in Paris. The Iranians agreed to hold 52 American hostages until after the presidential election. Richard Brenneke, Russbacher’s cousin and also an arms dealer, was another pilot , and the third was Heinrich Rupp. Bush was there to oversee the deal, and Russbacher flew Bush back to the US in an SR -71 needle nosed spy plane. Adnam Khashoggi, the arms dealer, paid for the return flight’s fuel with his credit card. George H.W. Bush mentioned Russbacher’s unlikely claim at a 1992 news conference. Brenneke was later jailed allegedly for mentioning the flight but a jury, lawyer persuaded, believed his story and released him. (Another part of this tale, had Israelis passing Tow missles to their sworn-death-to-Israel enemies the Iranians ROFL.)who MIGHT pass them out to 50 million Arabs surrounding tiny Israel and anniliate them for being stupid!)
Democrat pipe dream "October Surprise" was mentioned in a 1991 tome by former Iranian President Bani-Sadr called My Turn to Speak in which he claimed "proof of contacts between Khomeini and the supporters of Ronald Reagan as early as the spring of 1980" but never produced any proof. It is very easy to agree with liberals if it will sell a book by a virtually unknown writer or a ghost-writer.
"I wonder whether they're going to use the same prosecutors that are trying out there to see whether I was in Paris in 1980 and flew home in an SR-71 Blackbird. I mean, where are we going with the taxpayers' money in this political year? So, let them look at it. It's no problem to me. But I think ...somebody ought to say where is all this money going that goes to pay for these special prosecutors, rummaging through files and proving nothing. I was not in Paris, and we did nothing illegal or wrong here. We tried, and it didn't work, and we moved. And that's the answer to it..." (NY Times June 5, 1992)

Inconsistencies in the "story" include: Did the plane re-fuel on the coast of Europe, in the Canary Islands, Jamaica, or elsewhere two to 5 times? Why is there no mention or proof of re-fueling? Did they take Mr. K's credit card along and Mr. K's to vouch for buying lots of jet fuel? If Mr. K tagged along, where did they put him on the no-passenger military jet?
HMMM...if a case of wine produced "The Ammityville Horror", how much adult beverage would it take to invent the "October Surprise"? This was not even an original name but originally referred to the murders of the Tzar Nikolai Romanov and the Russian royal family in 1917 by Bolshevics.
Perhaps the idea started because Mr. Bush was a WWII pilot, then why not add a SR-71 Blackbird, to spice up a boring flight story. "October Surprise" was a made-up smear, designed perhaps by a green-horn reporter with little or no knowledge of aircraft and not a very good liar either!
Iranians, aware that releasing the 52 hostages not killing them, would make it appear they had won a victory especially if Democrat lawyers had cooked up the scenario and "advised them" it was a "perfect time" to attempt to embarass Ronald Reagan and even named it the "October Surprise" for the November elections. Fearing that "Cowboy" Reagan had plans for their flaming deaths, why not have a good laugh making it look like they had been bribed? As a bonus it would anger America's ally, Israel, that America would arm Israel's enemy.
Later some of these same jokers would load a jet liner with corpses and stage a "shootdown" of an innocent jetliner by the "Great Satan" Americans or kamakazi the jet crashing into an American ship for "even more fun and games."
　
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruf5CynbPJo