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Cheney Learned Iran-Contra Lessons By Jonathan Schwarz - May 9, 2009
Cheney Learned Iran-Contra Lessons
By Jonathan Schwarz - May 9, 2009 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/050909b.html


In a new article by Stephen "W.W. Beauchamp" Hayes, former Vice President Cheney gripes extensively about the Obama administration. It's exactly what you'd expect.

But what you might not expect is that Cheney (seemingly inadvertently) confirms that there was a massive cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal by the Reagan administration:

"I went through the Iran-Contra hearings and watched the way administration officials ran for cover and left the little guys out to dry. And I was bound and determined that wasn't going to happen this time."

Considering that two national security advisers (Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter) and the Secretary of Defense (Caspar Weinberger) were some of the "little guys" who were prosecuted for Iran-Contra, it's obvious who Cheney is talking about as hanging them out to dry: President Reagan and Vice President Bush.

Here's how journalist Robert Parry describes the conclusions of Iran-Contra .........
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