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Garion_55

(1,915 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 07:49 AM Jun 2013

Only 517 more days of scandalmongering before the next election

have you gotten your shopping done yet?

lets take a moment to remember some real actual scandals...


"The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ایران-کنترا?, Spanish: caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.[1] Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress."


"The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 — the only resignation of a U.S. President to date. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction, and incarceration of forty-three persons, dozens of whom were Nixon's top administration officials."


and of course we cant forget lying us into iraq for WMD that werent even there.




the moral of the story is Republicans are great at creating scandal but suck at trying to pin any on democrats.

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