[Paraclete]

If you're referring to support for the contra's that's one thing. But what in the heck business did we have selling missles to Iran?????

[chudogg]

But what in the heck business did we have selling missles to Iran?????

Because Iraq started winning the war.

[cardinal4]

I worded that wrong, sorry. what I meant to say was of all the scandals that have plagued Presidents, Iran- Contra was at least altruistic. Yeah, I know, the road to hell and all that...but dems were able to get people fired over it. It was because of the dems hatred of Reagans vision of America that drove him to do it.(Blocking US funds to the Contras, which was purely partisan, unless Mitchell and the rest of the dems didnt care about the spread of communism in the Americas).
Dont blame Reagan for Iran Contra, like Casey, he believed........

[El Gato]

If you're referring to support for the contra's that's one thing. But what in the heck business did we have selling missles to Iran?????

We didn't sell missles to Iran, well not after the fall of the Shah. What we did sell to them was parts for missles they already had. Hawks, IIRC. They were being attached by, guess who?.........Yes, Saddam at the time. The missles couldn't even be used to attack Saddam or Iraq, only to defend against Iraqi air raids. The trade was to get some of our folks out of Lebanon. So the trade was, a few more dead Baathist pilots and/or crashed French or Soviet built Iraqi aircraft for freedom for some Americans. Doesn't sound like a bad deal to me.