Interesting source on that one, Les. It does say that Carter started selling arms, but you got to do a careful context excision there to come up with something exculpatory for Bush on the matter.
We cannot provide here a complete overview of the Iran-Contra affair. We shall attempt, rather, to give an account of GeorgeBush's decisive, central role in those events, which occurred during his vice-presidency and spilled over into his presidency.The principal elements of scandal in Iran-Contra may be reduced to the following points:
1) the secret arming of the Khomeini regime in Iran by the U.S. government, during an official U.S.-decreed arms embargo against Iran, while the U.S. publicly denounced the recipients of its secret deliveries as terrorists and kidnappers--a policy initiated under the Jimmy Carter presidency and accelerated by the Reagan-Bush administration;
2) the Reagan-Bush administration's secret arming of its '' Contras '' for war against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, while such aid was explicitly prohibited under U.S. law;
3) the use of communist and terrorist enemies--often armed directly by the Anglo-Americans--to justify a police state and covert, oligarchical rule at home;
4) paying for and protecting the gun-running projects with drug- smuggling, embezzlement, theft by diversion from authorized U.S. programs, and the '' silencing '' of both opponents and knowledgeable participants in the schemes; and
[Of special interest here, on the topic of the nonpartisan, profesional seeker of truth and justice, the adulterous papal knight Hyde]
5) the continual, routine perjury and deception of the public by government officials pretending to have no knowledge of these activities; and the routine acquiescence in that deception by Congressmen too frightened to oppose it. (from tarpley.net
As for the Boland Ammendment being declared unconstitutional, yes, that declaration was made many times by the Reagan administration. It was never made by anybody in the Judicial Branch, to my knowledge, and I don't thing the Reaganauts asked for a judicial review either. |
