Wrong. Iran-Contra was a desperate attempt to keep Nicaragua from becoming another Cuba, while Fast & Furious was designed ultimately to deprive Americans of gun ownership, particularly of weapons which could be used to keep America from becoming another Cuba.
Trying to figure out just what Issa meant by “looks like Iran-Contra”. Could he have meant that like “Iran-Contra”, “Fast and Furious” involved very high-ranking government officials, but not necessarily all of them, or the very top ones? And the ones involved will lawyer-up?
how many Americans died from the guns of Iran-contra????
Unfortunate comparison. The Contras were our allies; the Mexican drug-and-invasion gangs are our enemies.
I had a lib tell me “This was started under Bush.” Bush’s fault again!
Watch out for that, because like most things liberal, it’s true but misleading. Under Bush they let the people buy the guns, tracked them, arrested them, and retrieved the guns. Not one gun went missing, and it resulted in hundreds of arrests. That is good investigation, and our current gun laws working.
They didn’t start purposely letting guns disappear into Mexico until months after Obama took over. That means this wasn’t done by the rank and file, it was the result of a policy change at the highest levels that got replaced by the new administration. And since it seriously affected international relations by allowing guns into Mexico, there’s no way Obama wasn’t at least briefed on this new policy.
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In "Iran Contra" the U.S. government's purpose was to defend against the Islamist and Communist enemies attacking us -- the Obama Administration targets include everyday U.S. citizens.
On the bright side this proves the separation between the people of the United States of America and the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street/campus revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue.
The latter has arguably become the Establishment.
I say let the professionals in the military and LEO do it.. but the time has come for the Revolution.
If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!
we don’t know yet...maybe he sold the guns to Mexican drug cartels and gave the money to Hamas?