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To: skeeter

The Iran-Contra affair was the effort to oust President Regan for selling arms to Iran and using the money to fund the anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.

For background information, read here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair


24 posted on 04/20/2014 1:01:30 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: jonrick46
Yes, I followed it pretty closely back then.

I don't remember congress debating or voting on this arms deal. Maybe they did & I missed it.

But here we are twenty five years later and the media has completely lost interest in the US sending arms to rebels or, in this case, probable enemies.

25 posted on 04/20/2014 1:05:01 PM PDT by skeeter
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