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Originally posted by Mulholland
Allow me to digress for a little character development…
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read the story behind the picture, or do you condone the selling of cocaine for arms?
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml
But behind the scenes, Kerry had forged an unlikely alliance with Senator Jesse Helms, the hidebound conservative from North Carolina. As the senior Republican on the committee, Helms was the key to Kerry's hopes. And the key to Helms was the drug war.
In the course of their investigation, Kerry and his staff had found evidence that some contras had ties to drug smuggling. If there was one class of villain that Helms deplored as much as the communists, it was drug traffickers.