Originally posted by TheAlmightyMe:
Originally posted by jerseycat10:
Originally posted by Davo:
Originally posted by spgoode:
You seem to interject a stupid comment into every thread in CI.


Really? Please post links to each of these stupid comments. For brevity's sake, I'll just be expecting links to each thread active in the last 2 days.

Originally posted by spgoode:
Who would be more deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize than Jimmy Carter?


Ronald Reagan



Yeah, he promoted peace by selling arms to our enemy Iran.



The Iran/Contra affair was likely the best political move for this country, if not the world. When the British pulled out of the Middle East; borders were drawn to create an economic, political, social, and power balance. No one country significantly more powerful than another.

While the US actively supported Iraq during the war, our secret and illegal arms sales to Iran, allowed the two countries to fight to a stalemate. with out our secret support, Iraq would have over run Iran, and thus thrown the region into instability, civil and national wars would break out as the other countries try to consolidate and increase their own power base to deal with the new, bigger, and more powerful Iraq.

These illegal arms sale also was an attempt to create a new peace and relationship between the US and Iran. It was working, until the news of what was happening was leaked.

The money from the arms sales to Iran was funneled to the Contra rebels. A Pro-Democratic revolutionary group in Nicuraugra. As the US now had a policy against interfering in the affairs of another nation (I know there is Hipocrasy here), secretly funneling the money from Iran to the Contra rebels as aid to overthrow the Communist regime was the only way to continue to comply with the Marshall plan.

The Iran/Contra affair certianly made the world a better, safer place. For this alone, Regean should get the Nobel Prize. Well, the whole Star Wars-fall of Russian Cummunism thing too.


The executive branch did not have the authority to give money to the Contras. The administration had been providing covert assistance to the Contras since November 1981, the 1982 Boland Amendment blocked further military aid. If the scandal could have been traced back to Reagan, he probably would and should have been removed from office.

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