cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/45077170

Actually it was called the Iran-Contra Affair.

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[–] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every. Word.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    can't they do anything honest over there?

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    watched Ollie North take the blame on TV.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Don’t forget, Iran was a democratic nation in the early 1950s until America fucked it up for corporate profits. We created the conditions that brought about the Iran regime to capitulate to corporate interests.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Highly recommend reading this book for more details on American interference in sovereign nations to protect corporate interests: https://ia600507.us.archive.org/0/items/ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman_257/JohnPerkins-ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman.pdf

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Im smart enough to understand history and what the US and Britain did to Mossaddegh and Iran.

    This was all caused by imperialistic ambitions by western powers and 80 years later nobody remembers who caused what.

    The US has been a terrorist state since its inception.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    So republicans have been worthless corrupt shit for as long as I've been alive..

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  • [–] 78 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    I'm old enough to remember that some the embassy staff managed to evade capture and were hidden by the Canadian embassy staff until they could be smuggled out.

    Then Hollywood made movie about it and gave Ben Affleck all the credit.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    The guy that writes the book takes the credit and sells the rights to Hollywood. Tale as old as time.

    At least Tony Mendez seems to enjoy a fair bit of esteem with his former colleagues. That’s not always the case.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    After dropping off their load of illegal weapons, the smugglers that Oliver North hired to smuggle the weapons down to Central America found themselves with an empty plane, a fistful of cash, and CIA protection, so what do you think they did?

    That's right, they loaded their planes with cocaine, and flew them back to America, over and over and over again, starting the crack epidemic that killed millions, a lesser know outcome of the Iran-Contra Treason.

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    [–] 55 points 1 day ago (19 children)

    I blame Reagan for everything that sucks today.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I was just telling my kids about how public universities charge tuition because of Reagan.

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    [–] 31 points 1 day ago

    Nixon did the same thing with the North Vietnamese so he could get elected in 1968. He didn't offer to sell them weapons, but he encouraged them to not negotiate with the Johnson administration, telling them that he'd give them better terms. Then he kept the war going for YEARS, until North Vietnam finally won it, chased the Americans out.

    TREASON has is a core conservative value.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    The United States have been a problem country for 100+ years.

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    [–] -4 points 17 hours ago*

    Reagan also won on "sealing the border"

    ... only to provide amnesty for those illegally here in the USA.

    One more tired example of the USAs BoTh PaRtIeS shit show, where every campaign promise is automatically never, ever going to happen.

    Bush won with "no new taxes", made new taxes.

    Clinton won with "universal healthcare", no universal healthcare.

    Bush Two won with "enough government spending", spending was phenomenal

    Obama won with "end the endless wars", endless wars.

    Trump won on "build the wall", no wall.

    Biden won on "15 an hour", $7.25 an hour.

    Trump won on "no war", war.

    Sadly, every generation is as full of suckers as the generation before, there are always enough that fall for the puppet show

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    Hard to argue with vote blue no matter who if you look at every republican president

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    [–] 23 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It was called the Iran/Contra scandal

    After he won

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    [–] 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    To be clear, the henchman who constructed this outrageous evil was former CIA director George Herbert Walker Bush who called the FBI when JFK was shot to let them know he totally wasn’t anywhere near Dallas that day okay so don’t even bother looking.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    GHWB was one of the shooters, or at the very least, on the ground conducting the op.

    Ed Lansdale. Ted Shackley. E Howard Hunt. Lee Harvey Oswald. David Morales.

    Basically all of them CIA, Operation Mongoose veterans.

    With Bush, JE Hoover directly mentioned him by name in a memo that supposedly didnt't exist untill oops it does and it's real.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Something else the americans have forgotten about Canadians helping them with.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper

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    [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    "Did Reagan give the orders? Did cocaine pay the bills?

    They said we's fighting communists, it was kinda hard to tell"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Ollie North!

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