McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair

[RedEarth]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. John McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America in the 1980s.

The U.S. Council for World Freedom also aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. That landed the group in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair and in legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which revoked the charitable organization's tax exemption.

The council created by retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub was the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. After setting up the U.S. council, Singlaub served as the international league's chairman.

McCain's tie to Singlaub's council is undergoing renewed scrutiny after his presidential campaign criticized Barack Obama for his link to William Ayers, a former radical who engaged in violent acts 40 years ago. Over the weekend, Democratic operative Paul Begala said on ABC's "This Week" that this "guilt by association" tactic could backfire on the McCain campaign by renewing discussion of McCain's service on the board of the U.S. Council for World Freedom, "an ultraconservative right-wing group."

In two interviews with The Associated Press in August and September, Singlaub said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain launched his political career. McCain was elected to the House in 1982.



Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/716035.html

[Ian David]

1. And two weeks later, The Associated Press finally notices.

It's better than the year it took them to notice Amy Goodman's story that the NSA routinely listened-in on American phone sex.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. I don't know, the Globe ran it on Oct 8th with AP byline...

[psomniferum]

13. I was going to point that out

but you beat me to it. Well, for what it's worth, it has the AP stamp on it and is running in major papers now. Better late than never, I guess.

[zelta gaisma]

2. like anyone is surprised?

this so brings to mind "what's good for the goose..."<<<McCain's tie to Singlaub's council is undergoing renewed scrutiny after his presidential campaign criticized Barack Obama for his link to William Ayers,>>>

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Nice to see AP finally woke up to this story.

[speedoo]

4. K&R. Thanks for posting.

So do we get to say McLiar launched his career with the bloodletting of death squads?

[The Brethren]

8. "McLiar"

fits him like a tight glove! I also think of him as "McChameleon" and "McFlip-of-the-coin" Nothing would surprise me with him, except that he was a decent, honest person who gave a damn about our country.

Btw, he probably launched his bloody career in a terrorists' living room. So I've heard.

[Vidar]

5. "Death Squad McCain" -- a suitable inheritor of the Reagan-Bush legacy.

May they all reign together in hell as soon as possible.

[patrice]

6. U.S.CfWF is guilty of undermining The Constitution. Congress had denied appropriations to support

operations with and for the Contras; Singlaub et al decided that the will of the People doesn't mean anything.

The Nazi connection explains a great deal, including similarities with the aims and motivations of The Chicago Boys throughout South America, aided and abetted by connections to U.S. financiers, that lead to the deaths of 10s of thousands of People.

[annabanana]

7. my my my

Imagine what the press might have found on this guy if they'd started looking before, . what?
LAST WEEK

At this rate it'll be 2021 before they get up to Abramhoff et al

[WA98070]

9. Soooo!!!!

[thereismore]

11. Iran-Contra never happened. Reagan told me so. nt

[thereismore]

12. McContra. nt

[frog92969]

14. I wonder if Palin got the memo

I hope not, she dishes it out so well

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. And how long till THIS story hits MSM: William Timmons

head of McCain's transition team was lobbyist for known terrorist Saddam Hussein?

more: www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html

[gratuitous]

16. Iran/Contra? That's just such ancient history!

Now, let's talk about William Ayers and the Weather Underground! That's what Americans need to know, you betcha!

[captainjack08]

17. Precursor to Al-Qaeda setup base in Arizona about that same time

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a1986alkifaharizona

John McCain became uncomfortable with the U.S. Council for World Freedom group and got out in 1984 but it shows that two can play this game of loose associations to terrorists.

"Both the US Council for World Freedom and World Anti-Communist League helped nurture the U.S. government relationship with militant Islamic fundamentalists fighting the Soviet Union and its allies in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. This played an important role in the cascading series of unintended consequences that resulted in the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the creation and rise of the al Qaeda terrorist network and its imitators around the world."

http://www.publiceye.org/foreign_policy/covert/wacl.html

[Dems4me]

18. kick n/t

[Larry L. Burks]

19. It's a Crying Shame

The other day there was a truck driver that came on the C.B.
And stated He was a Vet. And that John Mc Cain Should be our next president because Mc Cain supported our Troops.
Then another truck driver came on the C.B. And stated the he was also a Vet.
And said." Yes I remember John Mc Cain. Isn't he the man that was put in charge of bringing our last few remaining P.O.W. out of Vietnam. Wasn't he the man that when people borough him evidence that there were still some of our men alive in Vietnam. He took the evidence and through it in the trash. Wrote those men off as dead. And closed the investigation.

Left them for dead!

Yes I believe that it was. It was John Mc Cain that did this to our men. The same John Mc Cain that is running for president now.
They are one and the same".

The silence was deafening.


Because every truck driver that is a Vet. Knew that it was true statement.
And this is the way it is in every truck stop in America now days.

Do you know what the number one question that Republicans are going around asking each other now days?

Is it all right for a full grown man, while still at the office, to break down and start to cry.

Larry L. Burks

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[captainjack08]

23. uh oh.. here comes teh energee beems

You know a a thread is off to a good start and hitting some Republican nerves when it starts getting spammed and derailed with "Teh Energy Beem Conspiracee Theoreez".

[WhiteTara]

20. he is exposed slime

soon to whither and blow away as the dried flotsom he is.

[obamachangetheworld]

22. But when Repukes are linked to terrorists...

it's not unamerican, it's street cred.

[livelongandprosper]

24. Why is the MSM ignoring this?

Guess why.

[captainjack08]

25. McCain's Links to Nazis, Rev. Moon and other Fruity Flavors of Rightwing Crazies

John McCain is linked to radical right organization (Meet the Press)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L5OG2Hlb_Q

John McCain, The U.S. Council for World Freedom, the World Anti-Communist League, and Sun Myung Moon
http://realsunmyungmoon.blogspot.com/2008/10/john-mccain-us-council-for-world.html

McCain tied to U.S. Council for World Freedom: Nazi collaborators and death squads in Central America.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/mccain-tied-us-council-world-freedom-na

McCain Pals Around with Racists and Anti-Semites
http://wizbangblue.com/2008/10/05/mccain-pals-around-with-racists-and-antisemites.php

Enjoy

[captainjack08]

26. Book on Terrorism within the World Anti-Communist League

Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-League-Terrorists-Infiltrated-Anti-Communist/dp/0396085172

Oh, and this book is good too:
Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party: Domestic fascist networks and their effect on U.S. cold war politics (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.com/Old-Nazis-Right-Republican-Party/dp/0896084183

[StrictlyRockers]

27. Welcome to DU captainjack!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:


Those books look right up my alley. I will check them out.

[Indi Guy]

28. K&R ...And the "liberal" media is all over this, right?

Gimme a friggin' break Rush, Sean, Billo, Boortz, Levine :puke:

[NewJeffCT]

29. I'm sure this group being strongly anti-Semetic will go over big in Florida

won't it?

[karynnj]

30. Nazi collaborator goes well beyond anti-semetic

but what we need to remember is that was not McCain any more than Ayres is Obama.

[althecat]

31. Now this is news I like the look of....

knr

[Joanne98]

32. Didn't we already know this? Why is the AP so late on everything.

[noonwitch]

33. Nobody cared enough about it when it was going on, it's old news now

Don't get me wrong-I think Iran/Contra is one of the worst scandals of the 20th century-far bigger than Watergate or Bill's hummer. Reagan and his cabinet committed treason by arming one of our enemies, a country responsible for sponsoring attacks on our troops in Beiruit. Not to mention using the money raised from the arms sales to fund drug-dealing, nun-murdering scumbags in Nicauragua.

Oliver North is a hero, now, at least on FOX. Various officials involved later served in W's cabinet. Attacking McCain about this is not going to go anywhere.

[Zambero]

34. Palling around with international terrorists

G. Gordon Liddy is just another one of those 'old washed-up terrorists' compared to this revelation. Come clean, Senator.

[MasonJar]

35. Time for everone to e-mail Brokaw and inform him we expect this

on Sunday's MTP.

[Life Long Dem]

36. He's so two-faced with his dishonesty, it's sickening,

I can no longer stand McSame and all his lying. He better start thinking of his career in politics.

[IsItJustMe]

37. Why doesn't Anderson Cooper have one of his special little panels on this? Huh?