Word: irancontra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
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