cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/45077170
Actually it was called the Iran-Contra Affair.
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every. Word.
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
at the behest of the UK too.
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
whoa, direct to .pdf link, very nice, thank you. seconded your recommendation
And now even the US is up to being couped, in a "constitutional" manner. (Fidesz'es rise to power is often being called a "constitutional coup" by some scholars.)
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.
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.
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.
Noriega, anyone?
I blame Reagan for everything that sucks today.
I was just telling my kids about how public universities charge tuition because of Reagan.
Holy fucking shit. I learn new things every day about how he fucked things up.
https://newuniversity.org/2023/02/13/ronald-reagans-legacy-the-rise-of-student-loan-debt-in-america/
Terrifying. Thanks, I just looked up this topic. Comes back to the same as orange man saying " the educated dont like me" being just general GOP ideology I guess.
And you’ll probably be right most of the time.
Well he didn't start the Iran thing that happened in the 50's when the US and Britain ousted Iran's democratically elected leader called [Mossaddegh](Mohammad Mosaddegh https://share.google/oHyWn3GiAmqHRIz0l)
Just like Trump, he just abuses the holes in the rules that have never been fixed. Reagan was the first to do that large scale, but in reality nothing out of manners or some moral code was preventing things like that happening before, and as we currently see, the americans haven't fixed anything in the last decades - it rather seems many have forgotten more than they ever learned.
The US is a joke - we can see how much their constitution and democratic institutions are worth in reality. Outside of an outsized ego and megalomaniac tendencies, there's not much to see there.
can't they do anything honest over there?
watched Ollie North take the blame on TV.
So republicans have been worthless corrupt shit for as long as I've been alive..
Even longer
Every president and the majority of senators and representatives for as long as I have lived.
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.
The United States have been a problem country for 100+ years.
~~100+~~ 250+ years
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.
Hard to argue with vote blue no matter who if you look at every republican president
It was called the Iran/Contra scandal
After he won
Killer Mike - Reagan
Something else the americans have forgotten about Canadians helping them with.
Capitalism create a self centered personality. As long as it isn't American nobody cares.
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.
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.
If you haven't yet, you should read Family of Secrets, it's eye opening
"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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