Darryl Cooper
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Aug
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We wanted to make sure that the Iranians stuck around a little bit longer and Saddam didn't get too powerful because that's what we were worried about at the time, Saddam getting too powerful.
And so the other thing we wanted to do is we wanted to provide support for the Nicaraguan Contras who were fighting the Sandinista government down there.
In the early 1980s, an amendment to a budget was passed in the House called the Boland Amendment.
It was passed 477 to 0, which if you're a president, we've learned you can kind of defy Congress to a degree.
If they voted 477 to 0, you're probably playing with a little bit of fire if you want to do that.
really, really wanted to support the Contras against the communist government in Nicaragua.
And the Boland Amendment, what it said was you can't use any of the money in this budget, any U.S.
government funds that cannot go to the Contras in any way, shape or form.
It can't go to them, you know, as weapons.
It can't go to them as cookies.
You can't just cannot go to them.
And so you got these two things that security establishment really wants to do that they're forbidden by law from doing.
And they bring both of those things together and figure out how to make one hand kind of wash the other.
The idea was we're going to sell weapons to Iran, which we're not allowed to do, but we are allowed to sell weapons to Israel.
And Israel has a lot of the same weapons systems that we want to send to Iran.
So we're going to sell them to Israel.
Israel, working through guys like Adnan Khashoggi, are going to get their weapons to Iran, get these weapons to Iran, and we're not selling anything to Iran.
We're selling to Israel.
Iran's going to pay a premium for these weapons, and that premium is off the books, and that is going to be used to support the Contras.
And so...
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