Today in History: Do You remember?

[legalboxers]

Hey All

Hey folks, its me again...

Nooo Halloween isn't here yet...

Bringing up stuff which we forgot from the past which we choose not to remember...

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iran-contra-scandal-unravels

Eugene Hasenfus is captured by troops of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua after the plane in which he is flying is shot down; two others on the plane die in the crash. Under questioning, Hasenfus confessed that he was shipping military supplies into Nicaragua for use by the Contras, an anti-Sandinista force that had been created and funded by the United States. Most dramatically, he claimed that operation was really run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا‎, Spanish: caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as Irangate,[1] Contragate[2] or the Iran–Contra scandal[citation needed], was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.[3] They hoped, thereby, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua while at the same time negotiating the release of several U.S. hostages. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

Hmm.. Now wait a moment..

This Man sold Arms to Iran

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/24/bush.europe/index.html

U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin put pen to paper Friday, signing a landmark nuclear reduction treaty that would remove from deployment two-thirds of each nation's long-range nuclear weapons over 10 years.

But Wait a Moment...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/us/politics/trump-russia-putin.html

WASHINGTON — It was a jarring moment, even for an American leader whose curious attraction to Russia has often resulted in mixed messages from the United States.

Just a few hours after President Trump doused expectations of extracting any confession from President Vladimir V. Putin on Russia’s election meddling when they meet on Monday, his own Justice Department issued a sweeping indictment of 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.

The bold move, precisely the kind that Mr. Trump has long resisted, demonstrated how he is almost wholly untethered from his administration when it comes to dealing with Moscow. Whether it is Russia’s interference in the election, its annexation of Crimea or its intervention in Syria, Mr. Trump’s statements either undercut, or flatly contradict, those of his lieutenants.

Guess we never will learn

Guess we didn't learn..

[DeeDeeDeVour]

It's Oct 6th now in the Philippines. On this day in 1762, British troops began their occupation of Manila, Philippines. In 1979, Pope John Paul II, visited the White House (making him the 1st-ever Pope to do so).

[DeeDeeDeVour]

@legalboxers: Thanks for the other MHG. :)

[Secretgardenblood]

Good take

[Viperkiss]

Boy it’s almost as though selling arms and war were a cornerstone of the us economy. Good old death and destruction.

[ATuairiscean]

Nice ending profound

[ATuairiscean]

Thanks for MHO