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Originally posted by Bob H:
The last time a US President made a deal with Iran he was illegally selling them arms and using the profits to fund a war in Nicaragua.

Who was this joke???????

Iran–Contra affair


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Iran–Contra affair

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Reagan meets with (left to right) Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of State George Shultz, Attorney General Ed Meese, and Chief of Staff Don Regan in the Oval Office


Date
August 20, 1985 – March 4, 1987

Also known as
Iran–Contra

Participants

Ronald Reagan, Robert McFarlane, Caspar Weinberger, Hezbollah, Contras Oliver North, Manucher Ghorbanifar, John Poindexter, Manuel Antonio Noriega
(sound familiar)

The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ایران-کنترا‎, Spanish: caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as Irangate,[1] Contragate[2] or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.[3] They hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of several US hostages and use the money to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

The scandal began as an operation to free the seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by a group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to Iran, and then the United States would resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of the U.S. hostages. The plan deteriorated into an arms-for-hostages scheme, in which members of the executive branch sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages.[4][5] Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.[6]

While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause,[7] the evidence is disputed as to whether he authorized the diversion of the money raised by the Iranian arms sales to the Contras.[4][5][8] Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on December 7, 1985, indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostage transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to "moderate elements" within that country.[9] Weinberger wrote that Reagan said "he could answer to charges of illegality but couldn't answer to the charge that 'big strong President Reagan passed up a chance to free the hostages'".[9] After the weapon sales were revealed in November 1986, Reagan appeared on national television and stated that the weapons transfers had indeed occurred, but that the United States did not trade arms for hostages.[10] The investigation was impeded when large volumes of documents relating to the scandal were destroyed or withheld from investigators by Reagan administration officials.

[11] On March 4, 1987, Reagan returned to the airwaves in a nationally televised address, taking full responsibility for any actions that he was unaware of, and admitting that "what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages".[12]

Several investigations ensued, including those by the U.S. Congress and the three-person, Reagan-appointed Tower Commission. Neither found any evidence that President Reagan himself knew of the extent of the multiple programs.[4][5][8] Ultimately the sale of weapons to Iran was not deemed a criminal offense but charges were brought against five individuals for their support of the Contras. Those charges, however, were later dropped because the administration refused to declassify certain documents. The indicted conspirators faced various lesser charges instead. In the end, fourteen administration officials were indicted, including then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Eleven convictions resulted, some of which were vacated on appeal.[13]

The rest of those indicted or convicted were all pardoned in the final days of the presidency of George H. W. Bush, who had been vice-president at the time of the affair.


Illegally selling arms to Iran, covering it up then pardon the culprits involved and Ollie North works for Faux news.

Reagan knew what was going on. He hand picked his own commission to investigate.
Providing arms to the enemy.
He should have been charged for TREASON.

Documents destroyed involving TRAITORS and you clowns worry about a few emails.

Republicans are a FAWKING joke............................

LMAO @ Boob... He can't see the stupidity of his comparison..

Dave

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Time to educate a few of the CLOWNS who frequent this board.

Saw Rubio, the great cuban hope, putting out a line of "tax reform" bull****! Had nothing to do with real IRS reform just extolling the need to reduce taxes on those with families (always and forever the largest group). Simply one more loophole for a given class of people. In short, buying votes with tax dollars.
Where are all the changes from the Repub congressional majority??? Quite as a church mouse. I think it's highly unlikely there will be any meaningful change in America come the next prez election, regardless of party. We will continue on the path we are on..... the path of least resistance.

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Time to educate a few of the CLOWNS who frequent this board.

Gma/Bob/ZERO/Barney Fife/Daytona Big Wheel, said the trailer park guard.

Issues facing the Republican party.

1. Wars

2. Recessions

3. Lies

4. Tax cuts for the Rich

5. Phony Christians

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I could name more but I don't want to confuse my followers with too much to think about.

Your followers????????

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I could name more but I don't want to confuse my followers with too much to think about.

JM, Gma/Bob/ZERO/Barney Fife/Daytona Big Wheel, the head guard at the front gate has a lot of followers from the trailer park.

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Originally posted by Jerry Mock:
Your followers????????

Everybody knows you 3 Clowns follow me all the time.
Hence...3 posters after my comment.

I follow you like I follow your messiah because he's just as useless as you are!!

Boob Bob Job a legend in his own mind!! Too bad it's sheltered!!

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If the Republicans want to redeem the peoples faith in them, they will have to start off by getting rid of all the communist involved in the govt. It is gonna get nasty

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It don't get any better for the GOP favorites.

Rand Paul's son was arrested for DUI, after hitting a parked car and reeking of alcohol.

No drivers license and no vehicle insurance.

Looked up at the officer and said "Do you know who I am" as he was being cuffed.






Rand Paul's family values "Up In Smoke"......

Let's see...drunk driving charge or selling half of our uranium to the Rusky's amassing $2 billion from foreign rogue nations, needing to refile 5 years worth of tax returns because of NOT reporting all of your "foundations income, still hiding paper work from Bengahzi, [B]financially screwing over the ravaged nation of Haiti [/B] Wow, makes a DUI offense seem like a mere pittence!!!

Another GOP doing a flip/flop.......




Marco Rubio had changed his mind.

It was December 2012. The Senate gym. Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) was making the ask. “You ought to be a part of this,” Durbin told Rubio (R-Fla.), as Rubio rode a stationary bike. Durbin and six other senators wanted to rewrite U.S. immigration laws. In the process, they wanted to give illegal immigrants a way to become legal residents and — eventually — citizens.

Just two years earlier, Rubio had been against doing that. “It is unfair,” he had said, as a tea party candidate for Senate, “to create an alternative pathway for individuals who entered illegally.”



But that morning in the gym, he was open to the idea. He was in.

With that, Rubio began the most consequential work he has done in Washington. As part of a bipartisan “Gang of Eight,” he would write and pass a 1,198-page immigration bill through the Senate.

For a moment, that bill looked like the biggest success of Rubio’s career.

Now it looks like failure.

It turned out that Rubio had overestimated conservatives’ willingness to accept his hyper-complicated bill — and his own power to change their minds. Ultimately, the bill died in the House, his right-wing allies began to doubt his judgment, and both sides of the immigration debate grew irritated over Rubio’s tendency to change his mind.

Instead of a triumph, Rubio’s involvement with the immigration bill became a cautionary tale about a gifted freshman who had miscalculated his capability.

Now, as he begins a run for president, Rubio is left trying to run away from the most prominent item on his political résumé

Aw shyt, it's not worth pointing out the stupidity in the RETARDS posts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody with a lick of common sense can see the STUPIDITY, that leaves out the duped boobs and RETARDS!!!!!

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