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Why do you think we got our hostages back the minute he took office? Besides how is giving the country the ayatollahs were at war with weapons equate to supporting the ayatollahs?



Iran did that to stick it to Carter one last time. They hated Carter for taking in the Shah more than they feared Reagan. Also, recall that Iran/Contra arms-for-hostages (different hostages) hoopla. I think that this is what is being referred to here.

And there's plenty of debate about the Philadelphia speech.

Here's one synopsis:

"Most egregious of all was Reagan's first speech after the 1980 convention, in Philadelphia, Mississippi. It was in Philadelphia that, just sixteen years earlier, the young civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner had been murdered by local Klansmen, but Reagan's speech failed to make even the slightest reference to the murders. Instead, it contained the usual code words--"I believe in states' rights and I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level.""
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