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In reply to the discussion: A Question [View all]scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)It turned up in a DU post a couple of months ago or so, and I posted a correction then, too. I just really dislike such misinformation getting spread around.
The thing is - as I said - I LIVED through those years, I remember very well exactly when Reagan said those words, and the exact context in which he said them. It was a speech to Congress when he was trying to get them to appropriate more money for the Contras. Congress refused, and that's when the whole business of secretly selling arms to Iran got started - what is now known as the Iran/Contra "scandal".
Additionally, there was no Taliban in those days. The Afghans in that photo were, as you said, Mujahadeen, along with two Pakistanis. But the Taliban did not form until some years later.