cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/45077170
Actually it was called the Iran-Contra Affair.
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.
I blame Reagan for everything that sucks today.
I was just telling my kids about how public universities charge tuition because of Reagan.
He helped, but was hardly the principal person. Its a large movement fueled by hatred and bigotry, led by a small wealthy few.
He was the face and completely on board with pushing the agenda of those wealthy few, just like Trump is now.
2nd term reagan was a dementia fueled circus.
Everything old is new again.
When they find a play that works, they run it again.
Because we let Iran/Contra blow over with Ronnie’s “i meamt well, and what i said was true, but the facts say different”, Oliver North taking the 5th, and everyone else singing in the “I cannot recall, Senator” choir - government has ZERO accountability.
In the 80s the allegience with the Moral Majority somewhat tempered the corruption and abuse of the poor/disenfranchised.
Hard to argue with vote blue no matter who if you look at every republican president
I hope you like fetterman
^ This guy thinks Dr. Oz would have been better btw.
Both are grifters, one was more honest.
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
Funny, that book. I went to find it on Wikipedia to see if it’s something I’d read and there’s recurring disagreement on the talk page about it. One gets the impression there is an effort to discredit the entire work, with an overt emphasis on calling it conspiracy theory along with the omission of anything positive.
I went to one of the review sources used, and it’s true: the wiki author really did only quote the first line of the paragraph from the Boston Magazine article. The rest of the Boston Magazine article supports the praise, but the Wikipedia author chose to include only this:
Family of Secrets was trounced by the mainstream media: “There are more crutches in these pages,” wrote the Washington Post, “than in the grotto at Lourdes.”
Here’s the rest of the source paragraph, the part they left out (emphasis mine):
And yet it’s an impressive feat of reporting, its pages filled with constellations of intriguing and often troubling facts. Baker’s editor, Peter Ginna, told the New York Observer in 2009, “I worked at Oxford University Press for 10 years and published several Pulitzer Prize–winning historians, and I have not published any book that was more extensively documented and more impeccably footnoted than this one.” Gore Vidal called it “one of the most important books of the past 10 years.”
Interesting editorial choices. It’s almost like someone doesn’t want anyone to take it seriously. But if it’s that well researched and documented, and it appears to be, then it’s not just an unfounded conspiracy theory, is it.
I’d read it just to find out what someone’s so upset about in there that they have to try to make it look like a hack job. And Gore Vidal, for all his personal foibles, was prescient about what was going on in this country long before the rest of us had any idea the fascists were taking over, and a recommendation from him was high praise: I’d read it just for that.
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.
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
