(P) For those of you that still believe the Reagan Administration stood for values like human rights, political self-determination, and opposing the use of drugs, the scandal in Nicaragua is of course one of the hugest most massive policies you have to completely ignore. For those of you who think the New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times are remotely close to liberal (or at least anti-Republican), the reporting of the scandal is of course one of the hugest most massive stories you have to completely ignore.
Last week marked an interesting anniversary in the story. A man at the confluence of investigating the policy and being victimized by the mainstream news media committed suicide in December of 2004. If you want to live in the fantasy world where the Reagan Administration, the CIA, cocaine and other drug traficking (ever heard of the Medellin Cartel?), the Nicaraguan Contras, the Afghani Islamic freedom fighters/terrorists, and the failures of the mainstream media are not all related, then you really shouldn't read this wonderful summary of the history of this scandal, its coverup, and its eventual coming to light (sort of).
Whatever happened to that brave, thorough Senator who investigated so much of the serious problems in the 1980's in Central America related to the financial activities of terrorists and drug traffickers?
Oh yeah, he turned into a coward who didn't fight for his country thousands of miles from home. And a sandal.
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