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soblessed53 -> RE: All Bush - The Critque - One Stop Thread (8/16/2005 5:10:31 PM)
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So true and let's not forget Reagan and Ollie North! Reagan used the defense of"I don't recall"! After all those years of Republican corruption,Bill Clinton's personal sexual /moral failings seem pretty tame in comparison!
"all those years of Republican corruption"? Iran-contra was hardly years worth of corruption. Years worth of hearings, yes, but it hardly constituted a corrupt government.
Actually, I was speaking of ALL the miserable years of Nixon,Ford and Reagan! I will never forget what an old timer told me way back in the 70's "that the only time he remembered going hungry was when a Republican was in office" I now understand why.
from wikpedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair
The Reagan administration had been providing covert assistance to the Contras since November 1981, but the 1982 Boland Amendment blocked further military aid when it was discovered that the CIA had supervised acts of sabotage in Nicaragua without notifying Congress. The amendment, effective December 1983 to September 1985, prohibited the CIA, Defense Department, and any other government agency from providing any further covert military assistance. The Reagan administration circumvented this ban by using the National Security Council, which was not explicitly covered by the law, to supervise covert support. The NSC proceeded to raise private and foreign funds for the Contras. In addition, proceeds from the arms sales to Iran were used to purchase arms for the Contras in an arrangement instituted by Colonel Oliver North, aide to National Security Advisor John Poindexter.
In December 1985, President Reagan signed a secret presidential "finding" describing the deal as "arms-for-hostages." Let's see from '81 to 85, 4 years not long enough?
and let's not forget the "DRUG-LINK" ! QUOTE from your post - "but it hardly constituted a corrupt government."[sm=icon_smile_yikes.gif][sm=icon_smile_yikes.gif][sm=icon_smile_yikes.gif]
from common Dreams News Center http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0507-26.htm
The George W. Bush presidency has been one long rehab session for the Iran-contra scoundrels of the Reagan-Bush administration. Many infamous veterans of the foreign policy connivance of the Reagan days have found a home in Bush II. Elliott Abrams--who pleaded guilty to misleading Congress regarding the Reagan administration's secret support of the contra rebels fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua--was hired as a staffmember of George W. Bush's National Security Council and placed in charge of democracy promotion. Retired Admiral John Poindexter--who was Reagan's national security adviser, who supervised Oliver North during the Iran-contra days, and who was convicted of several Iran-contra crimes before the convictions were overturned on a legal technicality--was retained by the Pentagon to search for terrorists using computerized Big Brother technology. John Negroponte--who as ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s was the on-the-ground overseer of pro-contra operations there--was recruited by Bush to be UN ambassador, then ambassador to Iraq, and, most recently, the first director of national intelligence. Otto Reich--who mounted an arguably illegal pro-contra propaganda effort when he was a Reagan official--was appointed by Bush to be in charge of Latin American policy at the State Department. Now comes the news that another Iran-contra alum--a fellow who failed a polygraph test during the Iran-contra investigation--is playing a critical role in Bush's war in terrorism.
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