What was the Iran Contra Affair all about?  What happened to Oliver North after he testified?
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Congress said no more funding of the Contras.  In the meantime in the eighties we were supplying Iran with weapons, so what was done we took the procedes of the sales and gave it to the contras.\n\nCol. North had immunity when he testified.  He now works for Foxnews
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the central intelligence agency of the united states overthrew a legally elected ruler of iran in the 1950s (i think his last name was something like "mosedeh") and they installed the Shah of Iran in his place.\n\nthe shah was a cowardly dictator, kind of like saddham hussein but not quite as bad, who mistreated the people of iran.\n\nin the late 1970s the people of iran led a revoltuion against the shah.  ayatollah khomeini led the Islamic revolution against the shah in 1978 and took control of the iranian government.\n\nat that time, president jimy carter of the US attempted to support the shah and the iranian people were outraged about this.  therefore they took a number of american's hostage and kept them as hostages for a very long time in the us embassy in tehran.  this was one reason why jimmy carter lost the next presidential election to ronald reagan.  carter looked weak and incompetent to the american people because he was not able to bring the hostages home.  apparently ronald reagan made a secret deal - perhaps an illegal deal - with the iranians to bring the hostages home.
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I wonder. It seems insane. The last news item I heard was of a Iranian born graduate of psychology and philosophy who ran down his fellow students in a nc college supposedly for Allah? or to punish America? Why was he here getting an education? And what good was his education? my answer is , they are insane.
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It's not that secret, you can find a copy at\nhttp://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_documents/ahmadinejad0509.pdf\n\nIt's a bit long-winded, but worth a read. He makes some interesting points, but they are wasted on dubya, who wants Iran do do whatever he says, but refuses to discuss anything with them or listen to anything they have to say.
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They called it:  "SOMEONE HEARD ME TALKING ABOUT YOU KNOW WHO..., SO LET'S GET RID OF THE EVIDENCE.  The associated press called it "Watergate."  You probably should have been born earlier, as you would have not needed this forum to ask this question. Better yet, ask your instructor or your parents, they can tell you the ins and outs of this humiliating scandal.
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Do a Yahoo search on the name: Ayatollah-Khomeni. \n\nThen you might want to retract your question. Where exactly were you during the 1980's, anyway? Did you ever happen to watch the evening news?\n\nOh, wait, I just remembered your last question. Now I know why you have no recall of the 1980's. Go ahead and do that Yahoo Search, Professor. You might learn something.
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It's obvious \n\nKoppel was stunningly truthful. YA does not function in the realm of truth. This is a Tit for Tat Red vs Blue video game.\n\nWe require a Liberal FOX view of Iran with trained gunmen killing Blond Haired little Baptist girls. Not average people with views similar to ours being interviewed at the food court of the local mall.\n\nClinton made Koppel film that stupid commie show\n\nGo big Red Go
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Bush senior was the head of the CIA during the Carter administration.\n\nDuring this time the CIA was illegally selling arms to the contra rebels in Nicaragua and giving the money to Iran to keep the hostages that they took from the US embassy.\n\nAt the same time the Republicans were accusing the Democrats of not doing anything to get the hostages released thus swaying our own presidential election allowing Regan to get into office.
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I wouldn't really call this breaking news.\n\nThe next issue will be who gets to deal with Iran.  And Russia.  Sorry, but it's true.
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I don't even know where to start. Ok the good news things are a lot better now. There's a cease fire and the IRA have been giving up their weapons, trouble is the Loyalists don't believe that so there's still no power sharing going on in Northern Ireland. Add to that the last power sharing executive was broken up by an alleged Sinn Fein spy ring which actually turned out to be a British spy ring and you'll see why we're a long way from resolving this. The British Government know a lot less about what's going on than their own Army do. Oh, they would never admit to it being a war either, they call it terrorism, but that's what they all do, right George W?
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The whole story\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_Defense
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Keep watching CNN Skippy, they'll give you everything your tiny liberal mind needs to know in convenient thimble-sized servings.  The media is upset because they forced the Intelligence Committee to review the Pentagons findings and sure enough they found some.  Why is anyone surprised?  Where are the industrial centifuges capable of enriching uranium that "disappeared" under the noses of the U.N. Atomic and Weapons inspectors.\n\nWhy don't whiny liberals want to know the truth and why do they get upset when they find out they were wrong?
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As far as I know other than no longer showing up at White House press conferences, nothing.  I don't think he did anything illegal.  There are still questions about how and why he was allowed to stay overnight many, many times at the White House.  Why, exactly, was a homosexual male escort posing as a conservative newspaper reporter allowed to spend the night so many times?  It sounds like someone may have had some really weird, twisted sexual fantasy.  And, no, I'm not pointing any fingers.  It could have been any number of people at the White House.\n\nIt strikes me as a sickeningly freakish thing, but ultimately not too terribly horrible, and not illegal.  If someone in the White House has the hots for butch, gay escorts pretending to be homosexual hating conservative newspaper reporters, then more power to them.
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You know I  have often answered this question in my mind and thought how can Americans see what was happening in the Iran-Contra affair and not just gasp at the implications that were easily drawn from it as it came out. Watergate was a silly, doeflly stupid blunder of cops and robbers played out by wannabees yet it toppled a government and put the first unelected American President (Gerald Ford) into office. On the other hand the Iran-Contra Affair was a well conceived, devious attempt to forstall the will of the American people whose representatives had voted to stop funding the Contra cause. They felt so sure that they were right, that the conspiritors skirted around the law and did what they wanted too. Apply that to any other situation and see where it goes too. The Clinton thing was a set up from the power of the Congress. Warren G harding who died in office in 1921 was caught in one of  the closets of the the White House by his wife "pounding" his secratary Nothing was ever said to the press and she was surely not prosecuted. I mean what is the basis for "High crimes and misdomeanors." in that personal, private, consenting act? Ken Star spent $74 million dollars of our money prosecuting that case and found virtually nothing. now look at the progess of the mischief of the republicans from bumbling thieves to cunning conspiritors. why because they Republicans realized they needed to get work smarter not harder. So they created Republican "think tanks" which made their little mischief so much more effective as the last 40 years has gone by. Ben Franklin, Washington and Jefferson warned us not to be afraid of the outside enemies but be very afraid of the enemies from within. Learn history or relive it.
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he is former president of Serbia. he held the office during civil war. nevertheless it is very complicated issue, and his accusations are also related to unfair USA policy in Balkans and all over the world, but it seems most probably he is guilty. \nfor more info check with www.un.org, page of the Ad hock tribunal for former Yougoslavia
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cherriest14 - A few points for you:\n\nFIRST: Just who in the hell did Cheney shoot and kill??? Harry Whittington was accidentally shot by Cheney on a hunting trip. Whittington not only survived the accident but has already been released from the hospital. A far cry from being killed in my book.\n\nAnd you think no one blinked an eye over the incident? The media went after Cheney as if he had driven the last nail on the cross over it. Did you not pay attention to the news the entire two weeks after the incident??\n\nSECONDLY: Clinton's bl0wj0b did not almost get him impeached. Here are the fact:\n\n* Clinton received oral from Monica Lewinsky.\n* Clinton lied under oath about said services\n* Clinton got caught lying and was impeached (impeachment is the process of being charged ... NOT the processed of being removed from office)\n* Clinton WAS impeached, tried and not convicted\n\nI said not convicted intentionally, because he was guilty of the charges - he admitted it and received a censure from Congress and had to withdraw from the bar for five years.\n\nWe conservative are not angry over the bl0wj0b. Hell, if I was President, I'd be hiring new interns on a daily basis. As the chief law enforcement officer of the land, it was unacceptable for Clinton to impede the investigation as much as he did and lie under oath about what happened. You don't think that if someone is questioning the President under oath, they pretty much have him nailed already??\n\nTHIRD: Why don't you do some basic research before you spout off your parroted idealogical bullsh!t. It just makes you look really, really stupid.
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Some dodgy defending and mis-understanding between goalkeeper and defender!\nThat was Iran's 'secret weapon'.