>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

^hint: Iran Contra was foiled with evidence.


Who needs evidence when we can ask our government what happen?

>> ^marinara:
I guess according to chompsky, Iran contra couldn't have happened either, because it would have been too vast a conspiracy. (Wait, that doesn't prove my point, ahh nevermind)


Well, here's the thing: There were lots of leaks about the Iran-Contras scandal. That's why it became a scandal. Chomsky's point holds here too, in that conspiracies are impossible to keep hidden.

^hint: Iran Contra was foiled with evidence.

>> ^bookface:

I agree with Chomsky that it's highly improbable the GW Bush administration engineered the entire thing from head to toe, and it was never leaked. If there was any conspiracy happening it was more likely that GWB and friends simply left the back door and looked the other way in terms of security. Why go through the trouble of orchestrating a highly elaborate international black op when you can just ignore guys like Richard Clark, and count the days until something goes down? Perhaps what W was thinking while sitting in that school house on 9/11 was, "Heck, I didn't think they'd make SUCH a ruckus." Of course I'm speculating but I suppose I'm making Chomsky's point, too.


This. (thanks @bookface)

Think of the Iran-Contra scandal. Was Reagan involved? "I Don't recall."

"funds for the Contras, or any affair, the President (or in this case the administration) could carry on by seeking alternative means of funding such as private entities and foreign governments.[47] Funding from one foreign country, Brunei, was botched when North's secretary, Fawn Hall, transposed the numbers of North's Swiss bank account number. A Swiss businessman, suddenly $10 million richer, alerted the authorities of the mistake. The money was eventually returned to the Sultan of Brunei, with interest.[48]<-wikipedia

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--"They are all crazy. That doesn't take balls. That takes a whole lot of stupid"

Sadly, it only takes poverty.


From Wikipedia
Poverty
According to the PNUD, 48% of the population in Nicaragua live below the poverty line,79.9% of the population live with less than $2 per day,unemployment is 3.9%, and another 46.5% are underemployed (2008 est.). As in many other developing countries, a large segment of the economically poor in Nicaragua are women. In addition, a relatively high proportion of Nicaragua's homes have a woman as head of household: 39% of urban homes and 28% of rural homes. According to UN figures, 80% of the indigenous people (who make up 5% of the population) live on less than $1 per day. According to the FAO, 27% of all Nicaraguans are suffering from undernourishment; the highest percentage in Central America.
Infrastructure
During the war between the US-backed Contras and the Marxist government of the Sandinistas in the 1980s, much of the country's infrastructure was damaged or destroyed. Inflation averaged 30% throughout the 1980s. After the United States imposed a trade embargo in 1985, which lasted 5 years, Nicaragua's inflation rate rose dramatically. The 1985 annual rate of 220% tripled the following year and rose to more than 13,000% in 1988, the highest rate for any country in the Western Hemisphere in that year.

I stopped watching when she invoked Ronnie "Contra affair" Reagan's philosophy of criminality to analyze the assignment of blame in the Gifford shooting.

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Democrats started Vietnam? Man, you're reaching. Never mind the fact that your claim is a gross simplification of what was, at the time, a set of very complex (and yes, deceitful) circumstances.

And defending the Tea Partiers. Oh, the company you keep. Does it strike a nerve? Have you noticed that your general demeanor and tone is not far removed from the brave, former Nicaraguan Contra in the video above?

You know, the guys who used to kill women and children and priests because they were "communists."

Never mind the fact that you couldn't tell me what he said that 90% of the Tea Partiers disagree with.

Nice little dodge there, but then, who could blame you?

You have nothing to stand for, save perhaps your greed.

>> ^BansheeX:

^rougy: what are you talking about?
Pissed off protesters are what defines the Tea Party.
Reason? Intelligence? Tact? All conspicuously absent.
Pissed off idiots who think Obama's a communist and a nazi at the same time: that's the Tea Party in its entirety.


The only idiocy in the tea party movement are dumb party-line tards like you who think everything is the fault of "the other side" and then generalize everyone from a cherrypicked example. This guy doesn't look at the fact that Bush promised 14 trillion in prescription drugs with no way to pay for it any more than you look at the fact that Democrats started Vietnam. You think I don't go to gun shows and laugh at all the "conservatives" displaying their Obama Socialist signs when all he's done is continued Bush's policies on a grander scale?
Here, it's my turn. This is 1% as intelligent as anything that moron spat out, or even Sarah Palin, who I consider a total puppet. And it came from a Democratic congressman, not some random disgruntled civilian. Clearly, he typifies the intelligence of liberals! Touche!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg

I was thinking the exact same thing.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

This idiot should have probably brushed up on Nicaraguan history before cozying up with the same movement that sent death squads to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent Nicaraguan citizens. Google Iran-Contra. On second thought, considering his sociopathic demeanor, susceptibility to propaganda and military status, maybe this guy was a deathsquad mercenary in his youth.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

This idiot should have probably brushed up on Nicaraguan history before cozying up with the same movement that sent death squads to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent Nicaraguan citizens. Google Iran-Contra. On second thought, considering his sociopathic demeanor, susceptibility to propaganda and military status, maybe this guy was a deathsquad mercenary in his youth.


Don't Google Iran-Contra...I don't suggest that as a good way of studying anything. There's plenty of books on the subject, you have to really look for the good ones though.

This idiot should have probably brushed up on Nicaraguan history before cozying up with the same movement that sent death squads to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent Nicaraguan citizens. Google Iran-Contra. On second thought, considering his sociopathic demeanor, susceptibility to propaganda and military status, maybe this guy was a deathsquad mercenary in his youth.