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mckara

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14. Bill Clinton Left Out Most of the Story

Reply to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)

Fri Apr 8, 2016, 08:50 PM

Apr 2016

There were reasons blacks resorted to sell cocaine and why the CIA was supplying drugs to intercity America: Iran Contra during the Reagan Administration.

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Hey, Bill Clinton! The people that were responsible for crack cocaine were your friends, your white [View all] ghostsinthemachine Apr 2016 OP

Yes, Barry and the Boys, (Barry Seal) Mena, etc. ViseGrip Apr 2016 #1

Thanks bunches Kalidurga Apr 2016 #2

+1,000,000. nt. polly7 Apr 2016 #3

Good post, I keep thinking this is common knowledge but forget that many authoritarian followers Dragonfli Apr 2016 #4

I seriously think Bill is losing it. ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2016 #32

smashing the dealers and enabling the traffickers is their bag in Honduras, too MisterP Apr 2016 #5

right, but the good news is, now we have prisons full of pot smokers. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #6

K & R !!!! Thespian2 Apr 2016 #7

+1000000 SammyWinstonJack Apr 2016 #27

Clinton pardons Rich, leaves Mamia abu Jamal to rot? wouldsman Apr 2016 #8

Mamia shot Officer Dan Faulkner in the face. Doctor Who Apr 2016 #34

Bush Senior zentrum Apr 2016 #9

I'm gonna start a new fund for "Save the tone deaf assholes"... MrMickeysMom Apr 2016 #10

Chris Mathews and David Corn also helped bring down Gary Webb Mark 750 Apr 2016 #11

Thank you Mark shadowmayor Apr 2016 #17

Thanks Mark 750 Apr 2016 #19

For what it's worth shadowmayor Apr 2016 #20

K & R SoapBox Apr 2016 #12

He Let Bush Sr Run Amuck billhicks76 Apr 2016 #13

Bill Clinton Left Out Most of the Story mckara Apr 2016 #14

naturally some might guffaw at the language PatrynXX Apr 2016 #15

K & Mothafuckin' R Guy Whitey Corngood Apr 2016 #16

The good'ol Clinton deflection move... :) ConsiderThis_2016 Apr 2016 #18

This isn't GD-Peeee by the way... is everyone forgetting which bar they are at? snooper2 Apr 2016 #21

Kick azmom Apr 2016 #22

The infamous photo of Bush, Wallace and Clinton Ichingcarpenter Apr 2016 #23

Wow, I had no idea the big dog was so hated on DU. cwydro Apr 2016 #24

A lot of people here are longing for the days of Bush Cheney Democat Apr 2016 #26

It sure seems so, doesn't it? cwydro Apr 2016 #29

Right??? What happened to the *D* in DU??? VOX Apr 2016 #30

It's sad. cwydro Apr 2016 #33

I hate what his policies and greed did to so many people. polly7 Apr 2016 #35

Pfffft. Sitting at a table & posing for handshake pix isn't evidence or proof of anything, underahedgerow Apr 2016 #25

I reject those who 'can't keep it in their trousers' who also rail against marriage equality for God Bluenorthwest Apr 2016 #28

People's opinions change. Bill's infidelities have nothing to do with any LGBT issues, I can't underahedgerow Apr 2016 #31