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Originally Posted by Seth
Well, i thought the racist comment was in context, obviously not meant to be taken literally, merely a representation of how they were viewed by the reagan administration in terms of value of life. You're right though, it's offensive.
And, the US sold arms to both sides. Iran and Iraq, so I don't know where shades of gray fit in. By the time they signed the armistice over a million from both sides had died, and I wouldn't say that Bush Senior and the Reagan admin were far apart....i mean it's a general concession that Bush Senior ran the show as VP under Reagan. The guy was an actor for f's sake. Jimmy Carter started a move towards independence from foreign oil. Reagan effectively ended that movement and instead fueled the industrial war complex to keep oil money flowing.
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Your selective memory is astounding in your first sentence. Remember what was associated with the sale of weapons to Iran? The release of hostages? Remember that the weapons were initially sold to Iranians who were AGAINST THE AYATOLLAH??? Remember????? Once again the information you quote is missing important nuance and major facts.
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The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal which was revealed in November 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan administration. It began as an operation to increase U.S.-Iranian relations, wherein Israel would ship weapons to a moderate, politically influential group of Iranians opposed to the Ayatollah Khomeini; the U.S. would reimburse Israel for those weapons and receive payment from Israel. The moderate Iranians agreed to do everything in their power to achieve the release of six U.S. hostages, who were being held by Hezbollah. The plan eventually deteriorated into an arms-for-hostages scheme, in which members of the executive branch sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair
The rest of your warrantless commentary isn't worth responding to on a serious level, IMO. You make groundless assumptions based on conspiracy theory fiction, as usual, and any statement that its "generally accepted" that Bush ran the Reagan whitehouse ignores any semblance of reality or knowledge of the conservative movement.
Correlation and absence of evidence to the contrary does not make evidence for your accusations. Until you can resource and quote some
serious evidence for your claims, go crawl into a bunker, stockpile canned goods and arms and get ready for the New World Order to take over. I apologize for being so harsh but opinions like your are dangerous and if people are to read and believe they are true they damage themselves as conspiracy theories do more to crush ambition and create impotence than to reveal truth.