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malaise

(288,656 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:31 PM Thursday

Who financed Iran Contra?

Wasn’t that the guns for drugs orchestrated by the US
Asking for Slobby and his goons

The biggest drug and gun runners in our hemisphere were RWs backed by US interests and many were welcomed in the US.
Now these mostly dead men’s gangs are the pretext for war against sovereign states in our region.
WTF?


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Who financed Iran Contra? (Original Post) malaise Thursday OP
The Reagan administration was trying to use money from arms sales to Iran enough Thursday #1
Yes indeed malaise Thursday #2

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1. The Reagan administration was trying to use money from arms sales to Iran
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:00 PM
Thursday

to finance the Contra fighters against the Nicaraguan Sandinistas. Also included attempt to get hostages released in Lebanon and arms deals with Israel. I remember when I first heard the news of this arrangement on the the morning news and thought it couldn’t be real. Also something about a cake.

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