Rand Paul: "I support the Reagan approach to the Iran negotiations."

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2. so randy wants to sell arms to the ayatollah again? well.... reagan got away with it.

...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 that the arms sales would secure the release of several US hostages and use the money to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair