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September 07, 2007

Iran fined, but what about US?

An American judge has fined Iran $2.6 billion for it's support of Hezbollah which carried out the 1983 bombing of Marine barracks in Lebanon.

That seems fair.

What about US? Specifically the Iran/Contra scheme? Huge numbers of tortures and murders (i.e., Terrorism) were carried out by the Contras and our government, via the Reagan Administration, directly funded and supported them as much as Iran funded and supported Hezbollah. Indeed, Bush 43 has brought many veterans of the Iran/Contra scheme into his administration... most notably John Negroponte, Bush's National Intelligence Director. Negroponte of course was Reagan's pointman with the Contras.

If a Nicaraguan judge fined the United States government a couple billion dollars on the same exact grounds on which Iran has been fined, would Bush treat it the same as they are guaranteed to treat this ruling against Iran?

Posted by Kevin at September 7, 2007 10:32 AM