How Ollie North Helped Ortega Win

"As Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega takes over as Nicaragua’s new president, some U.S. diplomats are privately blaming Iran-Contra figure Oliver North for unwittingly helping his longtime enemy split the anti-Sandinista vote and win last November’s election.

The bitter irony for some Bush administration officials is that North is a hero to many on the Right because, as a National Security Council aide in the 1980s, he spearheaded Ronald Reagan’s contra war seeking to oust Ortega and the leftist Sandinistas.

But now North is coming under criticism for making a last-minute trip to Nicaragua and throwing his weight behind a right-wing candidate who undercut another conservative favored by the U.S. Embassy.

Ortega prevailed in Nicaragua’s Nov. 5 election by winning a plurality of the vote (38 percent) while two conservative candidates – Eduardo Montealegre (28 percent) and Jose Rizo (27 percent) – divided up the anti-Sandinista vote."

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/011107Parry.shtml

What can I say, except for...

:rofl:

the sad truth that so many zealots don't understand how much of the world understands their agenda -US self interest at the expense of everyone else.

Poor Ollie - he should have sent one of the dolls made in his image.

Oliver North was convicted in 1989 of destroying documents and obstructing Congress. Later, the country of Costa Rica banned him for having aided drug traffickers who were selling arms to the contras.

http://www.geocities.com/thereaganyears/foreignpolicy.htm

The convicted felon and traitor North should have been thrown in jail, along with the blithering idiot Reagan.

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Pat Robertson & Operation Blessing

Iran-Contra

The Crash at Gander


I bet Ortega is :rofl:

That's right, clueless republicon Ollie North gave Iran our Hawk missiles.

No doubt once Commander AWOL Bush sends our troops into invade Iran, many of our sons and daughters in uniform will be killed by the weapons that republicon Ollie put in Iran's hands.

Thanks a pantload, republicons. Thanks a pantload, Ollie.

Iran-Contra report detailing the republicon TREASON against the United States of America
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_02.htm

Why do the republicons hate America?

Why do they love drug-trafficking liars, who give weapons to our enemies to kill our soldiers?

What's wrong with republicons?