A Secret Government:
"The Enterprise"
- 1980 Iran-Iraq
War begins. U.S. begins secretly aiding Iraq and, through Israel, Iran. The war kills an estimated
600,000.
- December
1981. Reagan initiates funding for what becomes the "Contras" and initiates secret war against Nicaragua...which
becomes an increasingly public international scandal due to human rights
violations, drug connections, etc.
- December
1982. Congress adopts the first of four "Boland Amendments" explicitly prohibiting
U.S. military aid to the Contras.
- Spring
1983. U.S. takes action to prohibit other countries from dealing with Iran
- 1984
Iranian-backed terrorism and kidnapping of U.S. officials and
citizens in Lebanon
- U.S. National
Security Council begins efforts to solicit aid for Contras from private donors,
as well as from Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other countries which, in turn,
get more U.S. aid.
- CIA transfering
weapons to Contra in defiance of the law,
- Fall 1984
U.S. presidential campaign issues do not include the globally acknowledged
end of the Cold War, Central America or the Mideast. None of these are campaign
issues and Reagan-Bush reelected
- 1984-86.
Not facing an election, the administration ignores repeated Congerssional
warnings to establish "the enterprise" (a government-operated "private company"
to pursue a foreign policy different than that of the U.S., specificially....
The official position....
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The secret, real position....
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Recognition of Nicaragua
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Waging war on Nicaragua
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Iran is a "terrorist state" which whom
the U.S. does not even talk
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Iran is a U.S. client state, getting
arms and assistance
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Iraq is a Soviet client state which
whom the U.S. does not deal
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Iraq is also a U.S. client state, getting
arms and assistance
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