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If you had actually met real, no-kidding Nicaraguan patriots during that timeframe, you never would have known that they were even from Nicaragua--they always said that they were from Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador. The ones who were (a) dealing drugs and (b) saying they were Contras were FODs (Friends of Danny Ortega). They were the ones who started the idea that the CIA was pushing drugs.

I had some dealings with the Contras and didn't know a damn thing about it until I was in a Chamber of Commerce meeting with a Nicaraguan trade delegation and I was reunited with a former business partner who had been funding the Contras--he was a minor player in the post-Ortega government, but I knew him as an Honduran businessman trying to build a factory in Tegucigalpas and buying machine tools.

I find it fascinating that you're repeating the usual Democrat slander about Contras dealing in drugs, though.

Gasp ... I had no idea I was having a conversation with someone who knew someone who knew someone that knew Terry Reed. All those years that my eyes were lying to me, the bogus documents that just happened to be placed where I would find them.

Not trying to be too much of a wise guy, but I know what I know.

And actually, some of the Democrats were just as deep into the Programs and even knew more about than most Republican politicians did.

Have you read Dark Alliance by Gary Webb?