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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 1341397" data-attributes="member: 33372"><p>Are you farking KIDDING me??? Regan was behind the Iran Contra scandal. He armed both Iran as well as terrorists in Nicaragua in the hopes of freeing seven hostages in Lebanon.</p><p>here is what one source says:</p><p></p><p>It was planned that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" target="_blank">Israel</a> would ship weapons to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" target="_blank">Iran</a>, 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_branch" target="_blank">executive branch</a> sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#cite_note-tce-8" target="_blank">[8]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#cite_note-reagan_no-bbc-9" target="_blank">[9]</a> Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North" target="_blank">Oliver North</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" target="_blank">National Security Council</a> in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandinista_National_Liberation_Front" target="_blank">Sandinista</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist" target="_blank">anti-communist</a> rebels, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras" target="_blank">Contras</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" target="_blank">Nicaragua</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#cite_note-10" target="_blank">[10]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#cite_note-11" target="_blank">[11]</a></p><p></p><p>this was all swept under the rug by a republican congress,and anyone who had been used as a Scapegoat was pardoned by King George the First in the last days of his presidency</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="728ups, post: 1341397, member: 33372"] Are you farking KIDDING me??? Regan was behind the Iran Contra scandal. He armed both Iran as well as terrorists in Nicaragua in the hopes of freeing seven hostages in Lebanon. here is what one source says: It was planned that [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel']Israel[/URL] would ship weapons to [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran']Iran[/URL], 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 [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_branch']executive branch[/URL] sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#cite_note-tce-8'][8][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#cite_note-reagan_no-bbc-9'][9][/URL] Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North']Oliver North[/URL] of the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council']National Security Council[/URL] in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandinista_National_Liberation_Front']Sandinista[/URL] and [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist']anti-communist[/URL] rebels, or [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras']Contras[/URL], in [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua']Nicaragua[/URL].[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#cite_note-10'][10][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#cite_note-11'][11][/URL] this was all swept under the rug by a republican congress,and anyone who had been used as a Scapegoat was pardoned by King George the First in the last days of his presidency [/QUOTE]
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