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Actually it was called the Iran-Contra Affair.
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Ollie North!
I think the phrases “illegal war” and “war crimes” are redundant. WTF is a “legal” war?
“War I’ve been told to support is legal, other wars are illegal (we don’t talk about morals here because I’m American and morality is decorative at best, but usually shunned as weakness).”
One with a formal declaration and a stated goal.
And then they made a video game about the guerilla warfare in Nicaragua and everybody was like “hell yeah”
/s if not obvious.
Don’t forget, Iran was a democratic nation in the early 1950s until America fucked it up for corporate profits. We created the conditions that brought about the Iran regime to capitulate to corporate interests.
Highly recommend reading this book for more details on American interference in sovereign nations to protect corporate interests: https://ia600507.us.archive.org/0/items/ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman_257/JohnPerkins-ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman.pdf
So republicans have been worthless corrupt shit for as long as I’ve been alive…
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"
Hard to argue with vote blue no matter who if you look at every republican president
Obama had record bombings, Biden sucked Bibi’s dick, and that’s just recently. You don’t want a solution to American imperialism, you don’t care, you just don’t wanna look as ugly as the Reds make America look (who are monsters but at least they’re honest about it).
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.
Noriega, anyone?
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.
He was an empty suit that could read very well off a teleprompter
I blame Reagan for everything that sucks today.
I was just telling my kids about how public universities charge tuition because of Reagan.
Holy fucking shit. I learn new things every day about how he fucked things up.
https://newuniversity.org/2023/02/13/ronald-reagans-legacy-the-rise-of-student-loan-debt-in-america/
Terrifying. Thanks, I just looked up this topic. Comes back to the same as orange man saying " the educated dont like me" being just general GOP ideology I guess.
And you’ll probably be right most of the time.
He helped, but was hardly the principal person. Its a large movement fueled by hatred and bigotry, led by a small wealthy few.
He was the face and completely on board with pushing the agenda of those wealthy few, just like Trump is now.
2nd term reagan was a dementia fueled circus.
So much happened under his watch though. And he gets so much credit from republicans for the economy doing well too.
I think what makes me the most mad about him is he paved the way for the ultra rich that we have now. Massively cut taxes on the wealthy and cut regulations. The tech boom started under his watch, but was paid for by government sponsored research and colleges. They took ownership and now we’re all worse off for it.
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.
The guy that writes the book takes the credit and sells the rights to Hollywood. Tale as old as time.
At least Tony Mendez seems to enjoy a fair bit of esteem with his former colleagues. That’s not always the case.
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.
The United States have been a problem country for 100+ years.
Unlike who
I have very little bad to say about Palau on their global influence and politics
. . . Well okay then.
