cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/45077170
Actually it was called the Iran-Contra Affair.
I'm old enough to remember that some the embassy staff managed to evade capture and were hidden by the Canadian embassy staff until they could be smuggled out.
Then Hollywood made movie about it and gave Ben Affleck all the credit.
After dropping off their load of illegal weapons, the smugglers that Oliver North hired to smuggle the weapons down to Central America found themselves with an empty plane, a fistful of cash, and CIA protection, so what do you think they did?
That's right, they loaded their planes with cocaine, and flew them back to America, over and over and over again, starting the crack epidemic that killed millions, a lesser know outcome of the Iran-Contra Treason.
I blame Reagan for everything that sucks today.
It was called the Iran/Contra scandal
After he won
So republicans have been worthless corrupt shit for as long as I've been alive..
Nixon did the same thing with the North Vietnamese so he could get elected in 1968. He didn't offer to sell them weapons, but he encouraged them to not negotiate with the Johnson administration, telling them that he'd give them better terms. Then he kept the war going for YEARS, until North Vietnam finally won it, chased the Americans out.
TREASON has is a core conservative value.
To be clear, the henchman who constructed this outrageous evil was former CIA director George Herbert Walker Bush who called the FBI when JFK was shot to let them know he totally wasn’t anywhere near Dallas that day okay so don’t even bother looking.
Something else the americans have forgotten about Canadians helping them with.
The United States have been a problem country for 100+ years.
Hard to argue with vote blue no matter who if you look at every republican president
Killer Mike - Reagan
"Did Reagan give the orders? Did cocaine pay the bills?
They said we's fighting communists, it was kinda hard to tell"
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every. Word.
He was an empty suit that could read very well off a teleprompter
Ollie North!
You know the Iranians were the other major user of the F-14, right?
And then they made a video game about the guerilla warfare in Nicaragua and everybody was like "hell yeah"
/s if not obvious.
watched Ollie North take the blame on TV.
can't they do anything honest over there?
Im smart enough to understand history and what the US and Britain did to Mossaddegh and Iran.
This was all caused by imperialistic ambitions by western powers and 80 years later nobody remembers who caused what.
The US has been a terrorist state since its inception.
I think the phrases "illegal war" and "war crimes" are redundant. WTF is a "legal" war?
he also got himself a deal from sag-aftra seperated from the rest of the union i believe too where personally benefited more by snitching on them. he likely had early onset alzheimers the whole time he was president too.
Reagan also won on "sealing the border"
... only to provide amnesty for those illegally here in the USA.
One more tired example of the USAs BoTh PaRtIeS shit show, where every campaign promise is automatically never, ever going to happen.
Bush won with "no new taxes", made new taxes.
Clinton won with "universal healthcare", no universal healthcare.
Bush Two won with "enough government spending", spending was phenomenal
Obama won with "end the endless wars", endless wars.
Trump won on "build the wall", no wall.
Biden won on "15 an hour", $7.25 an hour.
Trump won on "no war", war.
Sadly, every generation is as full of suckers as the generation before, there are always enough that fall for the puppet show
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