Lest we forget
As Bubba Bush and his Petroleum Club buddies who run our government try to whip us into a frenzy over Iran's steady march toward membership in the Nuclear Club, let's not forget who helped get us to this point. From an Associated Press article about Sandinista Daniel Ortega's election to the Nicaraguan presidency:
The race has generated intense international interest, including a visit by Oliver North, the former [Reagan] White House aide at the heart of the Iran-Contra controversy. That effort to oust Ortega's Moscow-leaning Sandinista regime created a huge scandal in the United States when it became known that Washington secretly sold arms to Iran and used the money to fund and arm the Contra operation.
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"The Spider's Webb," by Alan Friedman, pubished in 1993 ( see how early we were doing it?) is a good account of our government arming Iraq, Iran and right wing regimes in South America.
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November 6, 2006 08:10 AM
And don't forget that when Saddam was "using weapons of mass destruction on his own people," as the Bushies like to intone, he was an honored ally of Reagan-Bush against Iran, and Rumsfeld was his personal envoy. The Neocons' history of foreign relations genius in the Middle East has deep roots.
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November 6, 2006 09:31 AM
Tomorrow when the polls open we have a chance to start the machinery rolling that will once and for all rid our White House of the last of the same old tired group of Nixon's men who pulled Ollie North's strings in the Iran-Contra days.
Too bad it's taken nearly 30 years to remove bad guys like Rumsfeld and Cheney. Wonder if there were old Nazis still at work in the German government as late as 1975?
Tomorrow we have a chance to finally rid ourselves of the very same White House people who brought Sadam to power years ago. Too bad they won't be swinging from a rope alongside Sadam in the near future, they are as guilty as he is, the blood of Iraqi atrocities are on their hands too.
RIP
Republican Party
1854-2006
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November 6, 2006 10:37 AM
This post makes absolutely no sense. The arms were not nuclear so I fail to see the relavance?
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November 6, 2006 02:25 PM
You don't think the American arms Reagan illegally sold to Iran, the arms that saved Iran during their own Iraq war, had anything to do with them being around now to develop nuclear weapons?
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November 6, 2006 05:54 PM
Save Iran in the Iraq war? Do you even know the facts such has what weapons were sold and how many? Clearly you do not.
What would have happened if Saddam had won anyway? I guess you could also blame Carter for supporting the Shah of Iran.
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November 7, 2006 10:33 AM