Word: contras
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...cultural reference, the Bush reference points were the 1980s: Ronald Reagan and George Sr. at the helm. The end of all that hippy-dippy nonsense. A spirit of purpose and moral fiber. Yes there was that troublesome business of the national debt quadrupling, unemployment soaring and the Iran-Contra scandal. But some people will always nit-pick. What truly mattered was that the very word ?hippy? became an insult. Liberals were in full flight. It was the anti...
...most plausible explanation for its tow missiles--strenuously denied by Iran--is that these are some of the 2,008 units of the antitank weapon sold to Tehran by the U.S. in 1986 in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon--the root of the Iran-contra scandal that dogged the Reagan Administration. The actual delivery of those missiles to Iran was, of course, carried out by Israel...
...most plausible explanation for its TOW missiles - strenuously denied by Iran - is that these are some of the 2,008 units of the antitank weapon sold to Tehran by the U.S. in 1986 in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon - the root of the Iran-contra scandal that dogged the Reagan administration. The actual delivery of those missiles to Iran was, of course, carried out by Israel...
...last-minute dirty trick, and I turned my anger at the sleazy politicians who were making the disclosure--not an October surprise, but a November surprise. The timing reminded me of the release of the [Iran-contra independent counsel Lawrence] Walsh indictment of Cap Weinberger late in the game in 1992. One CNN poll had us closing the gap. But that's all it took. From there on, things stayed the same...
...last-minute dirty trick, and I turned my anger at the sleazy politicians who were making the disclosure - not an October surprise, but a November surprise. The timing reminded me of the release of the (Iran-contra independent counsel Lawrence) Walsh indictment of Cap Weinberger late in the game in 1992. One CNN poll had us closing the gap. But that's all it took. From there on, things stayed the same...