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To: steve harris who wrote (242126)	9/17/2007 6:46:03 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The terrorist as founding father... In 1986, the Reagan Administration was found to have illegally sold arms to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. The Iran-Contra Affair was the largest political scandal in the United States during the 1980s.[42] President Reagan professed ignorance of the plot's existence and quickly called for an Independent Counsel to investigate. Reagan's denial of awareness of the scandal belied his signing a secret presidential "finding" describing the deal as "arms-for-hostages." Critics objected to his comparison of the Contras to the Founding Fathers and to the French Resistance. The International Court of Justice, in its ruling on Nicaragua v. United States, found that the U.S. had been involved in the "unlawful use of force" in Nicaragua due to its treaty obligations and the customary obligations of international law not to intervene in the affairs of other states. en.wikipedia.org

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