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To: Marty Rubin who wrote (27185)	12/20/1998 11:55:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) of 108807

what if he sells missiles to iraq and lies about it, should we cut his head off? An interesting formulation, as it seems to parallel recent history. Reagan, of course, sold Hawk missile parts to Iran, who then shot them at Iraqi tanks during their long border war. While this ran counter to stated U.S. policy, there was nothing at all illegal about it. It was the channelling of Iranian funds to the Nicaraguan Contras that violated the Boland amendment, an amendment which oddly carried no penalty of either fine or imprisonment. To the great dismay of many the prosecution couldn't trace violations of the Boland amendment to anyone other than North and Poindexter. And at the end of his seven year investigation Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh certified in writing that Ronald Reagan had not perjured himself. Reagan haters aren't convinced in the slightest, arguing that Reagan lied about his inability to remember. Much of his testimony was given after he had left office, when he was already showing signs of the Alzheimer's that has erased his memory.

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