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To: Gauguin who wrote (12483)	9/16/1998 10:12:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

America's "puritan bent" hasn't anything to do with Clinton's fibbing. This guy fears truth like a rabid dog fears water. It's an involuntary reaction. I once worked with someone just like him, another "adult child of an alcoholic" as is Billy. Ol' Chip was likeable, but a true statement could only be pried out of him with a crowbar. He'd contradict something he had just said before the echo had stopped. I'm always curious about what the big deal is about Iran/Contra. Reagan sold Hawk missile parts to the Iranians to try to get our hostages released. While this contradicted his public policy of not negotiating for hostages, what's the big deal? He should have been trying to spring the hostages, and the Hawk missiles were being fired at Iraqi tanks, not exactly a world shaking threat. On the Nicaraguan side, did the objection to the supplying the Contras come from an adoration of the Sandanistas, or for their Soviet patrons? The Soviets certainly knew that the Sandanistas were stalking horses for them, in the mold of Castro, as they had trained the Sandanista leadership themselves. The Russians were busily building military airstrips throughout the Caribbean as they acquired client states in the region, and Nicaragua made a nice triangulation with Cuba and Grenada. The Sandanistas wrote openly of their allegiance to the Soviets, although you had to wade through the usual barrage of propaganda that their comrades in the US floated in order to learn this. Reagan should have challenged the House embargo out front, instead of trying to skirt it. It was important for the American public to learn what the Sandanistas were about, and they never did get the chance.