Why doesn't Kerry talk about Iran-Contra and BCCI more often?

[phillybri]

:shrug:

[barb162]

1. IC was under Reagan and Bush the elder

(please refresh me on BCCI)

[phillybri]

3. Here's your refresher...

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0409.sirota.html

[kwolf68]

2. I guess its a non-issue

Can't fit it into a 30 second soundbyte.

[shraby]

4. They're both long stories

and he wouldn't have time to relate the whole thing. He'd need at least and hour show for each one. Many of the perps are in the white house now and if he did get the time to bring them up, the perps would be yelling partisan politics.

[phillybri]

5. True, but it does show...

...that Kerry's shown leadership in fighting terrorist activity from way back in the day...

[jarab]

6. Too complex an issue ...

It took over a dozen years to bust 'em after they were front pagers. Dems are also involved (as a minority) in the BCCI scandal (too). Start with Bert Lance, if you please.
Too complex an issue for the electorate.
...O...

[blm]

7. Post 9-11, people will GET that terrorists were being funded through

a dirty network of banks also shared by Bush and his cronies worldwide.

Instead of working WITH Kerry to shut BCCI down, Bush and his thugs were working to STOP Kerry from exposing the terrorist links to their financial networks and those of their crony capitalist friends doing business with them. Arms and drugs, the Bush family specialty.

Kerry's efforts shut down BCCI, but think how terrorism and the tracking of its funding and its official allies around the world would have had a full airing without the heavyhanded obstructing by the Bush administration.

And we are supposed to believe BushInc is tough on terror? HAH...what a bad joke.

[barb162]

8. thanks, now I remember BCCI

Iran Contra, I definitely remember that. Reagan/ BUsh should have been impeached. But it was complex also and even at that time when it was in the news, people were like "huh." People weren't getting it.

I think both show how dirty the entire Bush family is, from one generation to the next.

[GOPAgainstGW]

9. THANKS EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!

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