Echoes of Iran-Contra--the diversion of 700 million

[deacon]

Echoes of Iran-Contra

Imagine that the U.S. administration deliberately hid money from Congress to invest in a war in the Middle East, potentially crafted secret deals with an oil-rich Middle Eastern country that has ties to terrorism, and appointed ideologues to be the key diplomatic emissaries to a war-torn region. Think you are back in the 1980s living through the Iran-Contra scandal? Think again. Over the last two days, new revelations by journalist Bob Woodward and actions by President Bush have evoked memories of a previous scandal and an old foreign policy/national security strategy gone wrong. Yesterday, new details emerged about the Bush administration's deliberate circumvention of Congress to divert $700 million into a secret war plan, and about the potential manipulation of U.S. elections by the Saudi Arabian government. Meanwhile, President Bush nominated key Iran-Contra figure John Negroponte as the new Ambassador to Iraq.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=6228#2

[kentuck]

1. What exactly is the difference ?

Can someone explain the differences and the similarities??

[ezee]

2. I knew that I had heard this story before!. n/t