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Take second look at Lebanon bombing; Jerry Miskulin; Beaver County Times; May 11, 2014.
I encourage you to review Mr. Miskulin’s body of work in the archives. Mr. Miskulin has written at least 98 letters since 2004 (I didn’t critique all of them.). Most (all?) are illogical and full of falsehoods (not just wrong).
Mr. Miskulin expressed displeasure with the tea parties (here and here), proclaimed
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Now, it’s like Benghazi this, Benghazi that.
“What the Democrats should do is reopen the investigation into how in 1980 the Marine barracks was blown up in Lebanon. People would want to know, seeing that Ronald Regan [sic] eventually developed Alzheimer’s disease. Was the disease affecting his judgment back then?”
[RWC] If you’re familiar with Mr. Miskulin’s letter-writing body of work, you’ll remember he has a “thing” about Mr. Reagan.
“Along with his notion that going into debt would make us all rich, I wonder if his Iran-Contra connection was as bozo then as it looks to most people now.”
[RWC] Mr. Reagan’s “notion that going into debt would make us all rich?” As I wrote in a previous critique, “Excluding the World War II years, Presidents Johnson, Ford, and Carter all ‘ran record budget deficits’ before Mr. Reagan took office, as did Presidents Bush (41 & 43), Clinton, and Obama after Mr. Reagan. Mr. Reagan invented ‘borrow and spend?’ When Mr. Reagan took office in 1981, there had been only eight non-deficit years since World War II and none since 1969. By Mr. Reagan’s last budget (FY 1989), tax revenue had increased from $599.3 billion in FY 1981 to $991.2 billion. That’s a tax increase of $391.9 billion, or 65.4%. The problem was spending. Mr. Reagan couldn’t get Congress to go along with spending cuts and as a result spending increased $465.6 billion, or 68.6%.”
“Yes, Regan [sic] had a tremendous influence on America -- most I have to laugh at -- but the Marine deaths in Lebanon were no laughing matter.
“When you keep repeating ‘Benghazi’ I have to go back to Lebanon. Reopen the investigation, for the original action was whitewashed. Regan [sic] might have been the ‘Teflon President,’ but he scratched real easily. Now it makes things hard to swallow.”
[RWC] I agree “Democrats should … reopen the investigation into how in 1980 the Marine barracks was blown up in Lebanon.” While they’re at it, Democrats should reopen the 1992 “October Surprise Task Force” investigation into VP-candidate George H.W. Bush secretly traveling to/from Europe via an SR-71 Blackbird to conduct secret negotiations with Iran during the 1980 presidential campaign to release the U.S. hostages held in Tehran.
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