25 November 2009

History for the day

On 25 November 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.

Rico says remember when the world was quaint and different? We had relations (of a sort; it was the Shah, after all) with Iran, and we had a nice little war going in Nicaragua...

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