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peppertree

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6. And the drug-running

Reply to Bucky (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 3, 2023, 01:24 PM

Mar 2023

Iran-Contra should've been called Iran-Cocaine-Contra - since 98% of the funds in said scandal came from trafficking yayo.

Contra bag-man Adolfo Calero even snorted during his very testimony in Congress - having previously been granted blanket immunity to testify.

Still, it's all small potatoes compared to what Dubya later did - and to what deSaster would no doubt do, if he had the chance.

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