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Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts) Fri Aug 12, 2016, 11:31 AM Aug 2016

Didn't President Reagan

provide arms to Al Qaida?

Wouldn't that make him a founding member? Maybe qualifying him for a gold retirement watch at the least?

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Didn't President Reagan (Original Post) Shankapotomus Aug 2016 OP

Plus more than that. He sold arms to Iran and allowed drugs to be brought into the US. tonyt53 Aug 2016 #1

Sold Arms to Iran, Funnelled the Profits to Nun Killer Terrorists. HughBeaumont Aug 2016 #2

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)

1. Plus more than that. He sold arms to Iran and allowed drugs to be brought into the US.

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Fri Aug 12, 2016, 12:26 PM

Aug 2016

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)

2. Sold Arms to Iran, Funnelled the Profits to Nun Killer Terrorists.

Reply to Shankapotomus (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 01:16 PM

Aug 2016

Violations of the Boland Amendment and aiding/giving comfort to an enemy . . . by definition, treason.

Oliver North wrote that "Ronald Reagan knew of and approved a great deal of what went on with both the Iranian initiative and private efforts on behalf of the contras and he received regular, detailed briefings on both...I have no doubt that he was told about the use of residuals for the Contras, and that he approved it. Enthusiastically."

IOKIYAR.

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