Reply #121: Used to call that the "Reagan Defense," before the media [View All]

turned that fucking criminal into a saint. That's how he got around self-incrimination in the Iran-Contra scandal. You remember that one, everyone? Where Reagan sold weapons to a nation that had declared war on us, so that they could fight another nation that we were supplying with arms, then diverted the funds of those sales illegally to terrorist groups in Central America who were using our funds to slaughter tens of thousands of innocent people, not to mention killing American priests and raping American nuns, while attempting to destabilize the entire region, so that the Soviets, who were already dead but were being propped up by Reagan's government so we would have an enemy to rally against, couldn't gain control? (Hey, you try summing up the Reagan administration in one sentence!).

"Mr. President, did you know about the sale of arms to Iraq?" "Well, I don't recall if I knew."