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Unlike the Republican Party, which is still clinging to some esoteric notions of chivalry and duty, we grew up after Watergate. We grew up not only with an instinctive skepticism of government, but the proof to back it up. Irancontra. A Gulf War that looked an awful lot like a battle to keep the world safe for oil. The CIA too busy with an illegal scheme to overthrow Central America to chastise contacts for flooding poor black neighborhoods with cheap crack cocaine. All of that, plus Dynasty, The Bonfire of the Vanities and sex, lies and videotape...
Ronald Reagan: Remember the Irancontra Affair? Illegal shipments of arms to Iran (then a sworn enemy), illegal shipments of arms to the contras and drug smuggling by the CIA? Reagan pled innocence by ignorance and let John Poindexter and Oliver North take the fall. And we all know that Bush was telling the truth when he said that he, too, was "out of the loop." Yeah, right...
...example, he said that only six of 2000 Washington journalists were assigned to the Watergate story in the first six months following the burglary. A similarly small number covered covert aid to the Nicaraguan contras before the congressional Irancontra hearings began...
...events that prompted the Irancontra scandal were illegal and undemocratic, said House Iran-contra Committee Counsel John Nields in a panel discussion last night...
...HISTORIAN will duly catalogue all this, of course. And inevitably he will contrast it with the far right's view of the Irancontra investigation. For the very group which argues that Congress has a duty to defeat the "Reagachev Doctrine" also vigorously denounces Congressional intervention in foreign affairs, particular in regard to the Irancontra affair committee's proceedings and majority report. Congress on the one hand is an essential part of the foreign policy process and, on the other, is a mortal threat...
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