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(268,845 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)rurallib
(62,401 posts)lost another keyboard!
damn - now that is funny
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)That's Roy Cohn on the right.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Which, I thought, was honestly refreshing for a sitting mayor. As you know, Wilms, the original Pruneface of popular culture was a Dick Tracy villain, a businessman-cum-NAZI agent spying and sabotaging the USA during WWII.
http://www.is.wayne.edu/MNISSANI/ELEPHANT/Young.htm
For those new to the subject of interest: Roy Cohn lives.
lpbk2713
(42,750 posts)OMFG
mountain grammy
(26,605 posts)aggiesal
(8,908 posts)Caption what Ronnie Raygun is thinking.
Mine would be
"Who let these 2, in our country club?"
The bigot that he is.
One last note:
This must have been a celebrity tennis tournament.
I see Dick Van Patten in the background.
forest444
(5,902 posts)because the $2 million or so in Iranian weapons sales (through Israel, btw) at the time was really nothing compared to the $2 billion in narcotics income that was diverted to the Contras by way of the North/Secord/Bush "Enterprise" though Freeway Rick Ross, Barry Seal and others.
The crime, and coverup, of the century - courtesy of St. Ronnie and Poppy Bush.
Raster
(20,998 posts)No small planes for you!
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)You learn something new every day!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The man who wrote the following was a DEA agent, stationed in Central America. Celerino "Cele" Castillo witnessed Ollie North's people unloading guns and loading cocaine for the trip North (no pun intended). The testimony also shows why the pukes hate the guy who has the goods on them -- John Kerry.
CONTRA-INTELLIGENCE
ON OLIVER L. NORTH
By Celerino "Cele" Castillo, 3rd
Former Federal Drug Agent and Author of:
Powderburns- Cocaine, Contras & the Drug War
EXCERPT...
Several years ago, the extreme right arm of the Christian Coalition selected to support Oliver North for U.S. Senate. Their support backfired and North became one of two Republicans who lost the elections that year. During North's campaign, I traveled to the Virginia to educate concern citizens on Oliver North. I went out to "grassroots" communities, and educated them on the criminal activities that Oliver North had been involved in during the 1980s. I went as far as challenging North to a debate. Of course, he refused.
During his failed 1994 campaign, he frequently claimed that there was no basis for any charges of his complicity in drug running, because as he keeps saying, "I'm the most investigated man on this planet." The truth of the matter is that the Iran-Contra special prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, never investigated the drug trafficking allegations, because he did not consider it part of his mandate. The special prosecutor's original mandate from Congress was defined very narrowly, concentrating on the Iranian arms sales, the "diversion" of funds from the Iranian arms sales to the Contra operation, and on the Contra support operation as a violation of U.S. law.
During all the misdirected hoopla about Iran-Contra, the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee (known as the "Kerry committee" continued its work. Jack Blum, an investigator for Senator Kerry, testified to the committee on Feb. 11, 1987 that the Contras move drugs "not by the pound, not by the bag, but by the ton, by the cargo planeloads."
In 1987, Henry Hyde, as a member of the congressional Iran-contra committee and a defense attorney, helped steer the panel away from any serious investigation of the contra-cocaine connection. His focus was to spare President Ronald Reagan and his vice president, George Bush from possible impeachment over the Iran-contra scandal and related drug crimes implicating the Nicaraguan contra army.
CONTINUED...
http://www.drugwar.com/castillonorthmay1104.shtm
OP Sept. 13, 2004: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2396787
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)but nobody goes after former presidents. Thanks for the info!