GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair.
McCain's ties are facing renewed scrutiny after his campaign criticized Barack Obama for his link to a former radical who engaged in violent acts 40 years ago.
The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_iran_contraWilliam Ayers is a SAINT compared to the Contras; trafficking drugs, killing innocent women and children, targeting doctors, nurses, and humanitarian activists, mutilating women, killing not soldiers but civilians, etc. Any "radical" that the Republicans can tie to Barack Obama NEVER did the horrible things that the Contras did.