Originally posted by TheAlmightyMe:
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.
Oh so then it OK. 
The end justifies the means. And here I thought the arms were part of the deal the Reagan camp made with Iran to hang onto the hostages a little while longer. Silly me!
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