The guy on the left was a US Marine Lt. Colonel who was arrested and convicted for selling missiles to Iran.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@softspeak @draken They were pretty fucking nuts. Had a president liked to joke around that he'd launched the nukes. Constantly starting shit with Libia and trying to with USSR.

I used to dream all the time that I was dying in nuclear fire with the adults around me sayng shit like, "Oh well, guess it's time to kiss our asses goodbye," and then starting to do so as the world went orange and heated up.

[draken@masto.nyc]

@rainer
We've all seen the American Dad clip, and I've seen the Ollie North Coloring Book.

[draken@masto.nyc]

@uncleslacky @thomas_klopf
Well ain't that something.

[draken@masto.nyc]

@iriyan
We all saw the American Dad clip, and I saw the Ollie North Coloring Book back in grade school.

[levzadov@kolektiva.social]

@luc0x61 @draken

"Mistakes were made."

[earwigplanet@mastodon.social]

@pcambra @draken There it is.

[barbramon1@mas.to]

@draken The criminal bastard got away with it, and he has the brass to try to lecture us now.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@draken well that's why they shouldn't have missiles, so he can sell them at a higher cost duh

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@draken treasonous sonofabitch I hate that guy

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

Dealer gets scammed, snitches on the scammer, a story as old as war

[levzadov@kolektiva.social]

@uncleslacky @thomas_klopf @draken

banana . . . something . . . subway . . . something, something . . .

[lcruggeri@mastodon.uno]

@draken its the same as Netanyahu financing Hamas for years, only to get them against time after. Like, create your menace

[draken@masto.nyc]

@earwigplanet @pcambra
Oversimplified, but it gets the basics.

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@draken strong bill hicks "we looked at the receipt" vibes...

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@purrperl @draken If I recall, the missiles to Iran were part of a shell game to hide money funneled to the contras in Nicaragua =s part of a CIA regime change no?
So he did the thing at the behest of the Reagan admin really..

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@purrperl @draken I'm hazy, I was 12 at the time.

[uep@timeloop.cafe]

@draken well, sure, see if Iran didn't have missiles now, they might come to him to buy more.

[axiomatically@mastodon.social]

@draken don’t forget about the cocaine trafficking into the United States to supply the Nicaraguan Contras.

[axiomatically@mastodon.social]

@tezoatlipoca @purrperl @draken correct

[draken@masto.nyc]

@Axiomatically
DARE to keep the CIA off drugs