[jonrick46]

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

[skeeter]

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.