[Industrialblog,
September 14, 2004]
The Memo-Contra Affair
I'm not sure I understand the CBS memo forgery affair completely, but I think it goes something like this: George W. Bush captured hostages in Lebanon, and then sold the hostages' families to fight against the Contras in Nicaragua for the benefit of United Fruit Company, and advertising dollars CBS gained from running an expose of Dubya's National Guard service based on fraudulent money was used to purchase defensive weapons and sell them at a 500 percent markup to Iran, profits from which, then, were multiplied tenfold pumping-and-dumping Halliburton stock, which the Vice President used to make payments to Dan Rather to stand by his original story.