“The Iran that Reagan traded with was the same Mullah ruled Ayatollah Khomeini inspired regime. Iran was our ally under the Shah - the guy they drove out of the country. That they were not then on the brink of having nuclear arms doesn’t detract from who they were and what they believed. It is the same people in power. “
I’m intimately aware of the history of Iran in those times. But even Khomeini said Ahmedinejad is a nut (and that’s saying something). We have a president now who’s doing worse than selling arms where this Iran is concerned.
As far as the Constitution, what do you think about a president who sanctioned (maybe personally planned) a mission to tear down one of the most vital of our Bill of Rights?
Contra was misguided and should have been done differently as you said, but we did NOT have a leader who hates our Constitution and all whom it protects. In fact, he has said so by his words and actions - many times.
I would be loathe to compare BHO to Reagan in any way.
No need to get revisionist history and try to claim the Iran Reagan dealt with was ‘recently our ally’ it was recently the deposer of our ally, the Shah; or that it was just arms for hostages - it was also arms to raise cash to fund a rebel army.
The Constitution is what it is.
My affinity for the person in power doesn't temper the blow to the Constitution.
They say your friends stab you in the front.
The Executive branch raising money on its own to fund a rebel army absent legislation to do so is about as bad as it gets.
Gunwalker is small beans, Constitutionally speaking, to the Executive taking on the power to raise and spend money itself.