Reagan, Iran, Contras and Breaching the Public Trust
The present commotion over the involvement of President Reagan in the sale of arms to Iran seems analogous to the police arresting an ambulance driver for exceeding the speed limit.
It seems to me that some genius dreamed up a way of selling new arms to our strong ally, Israel, so they could unload old arms, at a tremendous profit, to our enemy, Iran, which is fighting a Communist-supplied puppet, Iraq, and then funnel the profits to another ally, the contras, who are fighting an enemy, the Russians-supplied Sandinistas. To make it simple, our enemies are paying for the cost of fighting themselves. We need more men in government who think like that.
E. H. LOCKWOOD
Irvine
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