To be fair, he’s annoyed at them having missiles, he had no problem selling them as long as he could profit.
no hypocrisy then
Giving this traitor a television platform instead of a prison cell, was one giant step in making Republicans feel untouchable, no matter how poorly they behaved. Even treason is excused, and rewarded.
Those who do US crimes get airtime; those who expose them get canceled.
Those white and rich who do US crimes get airtime
You don’t have to be rich or white, you only have to be useful in furthering US state propaganda. Condi Rice is still gets plenty of airtime.
You don’t have to be rich
Proceeds to name multi-millionaire.
I was naming a non-white person. Also, people who carry water for US imperialism tend to be well compensated. You don’t have to be rich to do it, but you will likely get rich by doing it.
Context makes it look like you’re trying to name someone that isn’t “rich or white.”
RIce wasn’t born with a silver spoon. She’s rich now from her lifetime of work in the interests of US empire.
Does she? I havent heard that name in what feels like a decade
Maybe because you don’t watch mainstream media anymore. I don’t.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIIBQ%253D%253D&search_query=condi+riceYou are correct i do not watch any mainstraim media or news. Everything has to come to me filtered through friends, family, or lemmy.
“He has experience so we can trust him!”
-Fox News viewers
He wants Iran to not have missiles because then Iran will buy his missiles
Republicans don’t go to jail for committing crimes.
we think it started with trump, but Reagan did so much illegal BS.
He should have spent the rest of his life in jail for trafficking cocaine
He spent the rest of his lif living with Nancy Reagan so I think he kinda got his due
When Nancy Reagan was a struggling actress in Hollywood, she had a reputation for giving the best blowjobs in town. True story.
I hope that’s the American Dad school house rock. The kids popping as he says landmines is a good stealth joke.
Ha, came here for this and was not disappointed.
Lmao no fucking way, really?
there’s more to the story, like using the US military to traffic cocaine
Well, it didn’t really happen like that, but yeah, the Iran-Contra Scandal contributed heavily to the onset of the crack cocaine epidemic. The fact that they couldn’t use the US military in this operation is why cocaine became involved.
They needed to smuggle illegally purchased weapons to Central America, so they hired drug smugglers to smuggle guns in the other direction. What does a drug smuggler do after he’s dropped off his weapons, and finds himself in Central America with an empty plane, a fistful of dirty money, and CIA cover?
That’s right, he fills it full of cocaine, flies it back to America, and quintuplets his money. And they did it over and over and over, until there was so much coke on the streets of America, that it went from being the drug of the wealthy and celebrities, and became the drug of the ghetto.
And how do we know this? Because smuggler Eugene Hasenfus was captured, and he spilled the entire story.
The only question was: Was the CIA aware of the drug smuggling? Some think that they used it to raise even more money for their cause, but I’ve never seen any real evidence of that, other than speculation. OTOH, I find it hard to believe that they didn’t know their pilots were smuggling cocaine back to America. If they didn’t know, they should have, they’re the CIA. Besides, it’s not exactly a big leap to realize they would do this. They didn’t hire commercial cargo pilots to do some side gigs, they hired drug smugglers specifically because they were smugglers. They aren’t going to fly an empty plane home. Of course, they’re going to smuggle Coke (or weed), back in their planes. Duh.
forgot to mention that Congress made a specific law against funding the CONTRA. And Reagan went around it by illegally smuggling weapons and drugs for them.
lol wow, so that’s where Tom Clancy got that plot point for Without Remorse
And dumping it in marginalized neighborhoods and starting the '90s Crack epidemic.
It’s a wild tale. I once told the entire thing to a friend, who listened through the whole story, then said “Did that really happen?”
George HW Bush pardoned him on the advice of William Barr, giving him the start of a career helping presidents avoid responsibility for their illegal activities.
Related to nothing but Ollie, I rode an elevator with him and some police in the US courthouse in DC during his trial
What does “opportunistic shitheel with a side of bacon” smell like?
That I don’t remembers, but he was shorter and smaller than I expected
I was just a bike messenger at the time
well, you can’t argue that he hasn’t learnt his lesson.
You really think he wouldn’t sell them missiles again if he thought he would get away with it?
Heard about him in Killer Mike’s Reagan song. Great song
Oliver North, a retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel, played a key role in the Iran-Contra affair, a major political scandal during the Reagan administration. He was involved in the sale of weapons to Iran, with the profits being diverted to support the Contras in Nicaragua, despite a congressional ban on funding the Contras.
