Word: iran-contra
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...helped facilitate the CIA's acquisition of a shipment of missiles to be sent to Iran to help secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon - Powell replied, "I was his faithful Indian companion." What's most notable here is less his (legitimate) minimizing of his role in the scandal than his choice of the Tonto characterization. But Powell wasn't bolting from the side of his former boss. Far from it. So deep was his loyalty that Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh opined in his report that Powell had been less than forthcoming with the investigation. Powell...
Appearances have always been important to Daniels. In Reagan's White House, he quietly urged chief of staff Donald Regan to step down because the Iran-contra scandal was on his watch. (Regan stayed, and Daniels left.) Fresh out of Princeton in 1971, Daniels went to work for Lugar, then Indianapolis' mayor. One of his first tasks was arranging a photo op of Lugar filling in a big pothole on a busy downtown street. Arriving early, Daniels discovered that the hole had already been patched. He quickly redug it before the cameras got there. "He understands how images move...
...decades of cultural reference, the Bush reference points were the 1980s: Ronald Reagan and George Sr. at the helm. The end of all that hippy-dippy nonsense. A spirit of purpose and moral fiber. Yes there was that troublesome business of the national debt quadrupling, unemployment soaring and the Iran-Contra scandal. But some people will always nit-pick. What truly mattered was that the very word ?hippy? became an insult. Liberals were in full flight. It was the anti...
...last February. Ironically perhaps, Hizballah may have got the missiles indirectly from the Israelis. The Lebanese guerrilla army gets most of its weaponry from Iran. The most plausible explanation for its tow missiles--strenuously denied by Iran--is that these are some of the 2,008 units of the antitank weapon sold to Tehran by the U.S. in 1986 in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon--the root of the Iran-contra scandal that dogged the Reagan Administration. The actual delivery of those missiles to Iran was, of course, carried out by Israel...
...last February. Ironically perhaps, Hizballah may have gotten the missiles indirectly from the Israelis. The Lebanese guerrilla army gets most of its weaponry from Iran. The most plausible explanation for its TOW missiles - strenuously denied by Iran - is that these are some of the 2,008 units of the antitank weapon sold to Tehran by the U.S. in 1986 in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon - the root of the Iran-contra scandal that dogged the Reagan administration. The actual delivery of those missiles to Iran was, of course, carried out by Israel...