Don't forget 'The John Kerry Committee'
Why don't you tell the truth, Joe? Lets discuss Reagan's Iran Contra affair and its connection to Nicaragua. The GOP claimed that Kerry was catering to the communists when in reality they were afraid of what Kerry would uncover; that Reagan-supported Contras were drug trafficking and that Ollie North was connected.
Much like with Russia, Reagan claimed that Nicaragua's Ortega and his communism was a threat to the US. More lies! Neither turned out to be much of a threat. In fact, I see Reagan and Bush I as the more serious to the US and its well being with their Machiavellian plotting and the support of tyrants like Saddam. The irony is that they had Ollie North sell guns to Iran while Reagan gave weapons and aid to Saddam. The US ended up playing both sides of the Iraqi and Iranian war. And then you all tell me you're worried about Syria and Iran. And you wonder why the Arabs hate the US. Frankly, o wise one, I think we should all be disturbed by and concerned with the GOP and its sense of unfair play.
The truth is that every GOP president has worried about John Kerry since Nixon's corrupted days in the WH. They fear his honesty and his integrity and lack of corruption. In the end, honesty and integrity are supposed to trump corruption and incompetence. Its the American way! Let's see if its still in play.
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"On October 5, 1988, the Subcommittee received sworn testimony from the Miami prosecutor handling the Neutrality and gun-running cases that he had been advised that some officials in the Justice Department had met in 1986 to discuss how "to undermine" Senator Kerry's attempts to have hearings regarding the allegations.[12]"
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An August, 1996, series in the San Jose Mercury News by reporter Gary Webb linked the origins of crack cocaine in California to the contras, a guerrilla force backed by the Reagan administration that attacked Nicaragua's Sandinista government during the 1980s. Webb's series, "The Dark Alliance," has been the subject of intense media debate, and has focused attention on a foreign policy drug scandal that leaves many questions unanswered.
This electronic briefing book is compiled from declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive, including the notebooks kept by NSC aide and Iran-contra figure Oliver North, electronic mail messages written by high-ranking Reagan administration officials, memos detailing the contra war effort, and FBI and DEA reports. The documents demonstrate official knowledge of drug operations, and collaboration with and protection of known drug traffickers. Court and hearing transcripts are also included. |
