You know, we, America, sent conventional wepons as well as germ agents such as the spores used to create anthrax and west nile virus to Iraq to aid them in their war against iran.
And Iran used to be a friend of ours too, see back in the day when Regan was president, and george bush Senior was vice president there was this little thing called the Iran Contra afair. It was a terrific scheme for creating funding for CIA black ops (black operations are those covert operations performed without the knowledge or authority of Congress). It goes somthing like this-
the Director of the CIA, William Casey, approached the Ex-Director of the CIA and current Vice President of the United States, George Bush, with the name of a latin american bank that had large cash reserves, mostly from illeagle activites such as money laundering and drug trafficing. This was a safty net mesure, the bank already delt in sketchy activities and large cash exchanges, so they wouldn't mind dealing a little more.
This bank was the Banco Nacional de Panamá. Vice President Bush then arranged for a short term loan of $8 billion from the bank. The depositor used in the transaction was Pablo Escobar, The most notorious Columbian Druglord who had been working covertly with the CIA for some time. (for a look at who pablo escobar was watch the movie 'Blow'. To sum him up, he was a ruthless druglord who didn't mind killing lots of people to get his way.) (the CIA and the Bush family conection to drug dealing in latin and south america is another whole can of worms I don't even want to get into, maybe some other day SUpilot...)
Bush arranged for 4 billion of the 8 billion to go to Iran to purchase 'super bills' A 'super bill' is a perfectly counterfeited U.S. bill. These bills are printed by a press which was sold to the Shah of Iran in the late '60s, early '70s. The Shah was also given the plates, ink and paper necessary to successfully print U.S. dollars in large denominations. This was given to the Shah by the CIA. Unfortunately, the Shah left the press, plates, ink and paper for the Iranian Revolutionary Councils when he fled in late 1978.) every dollar bought two super dollars, efectivly doubling the CIA's money. The 8 billion dollars in super bills were used to repay the orriginal loan, ending the loan transaction.
the other 4 billion were given Nana Debusia to be laundered into several private accounts. Nana Debusia was the grandson of Guyana's first democratic leader and owner of many U.S. and foreign banks. He was chosen by the CIA to be the launder of the money because it would be easy for him to conseal and launder the money in his various private accounts around the world.
Lets recap now shal we? There is $8 billion in super bills in the reserve vaults of the Banco Nacional de Panamá. (to make sure these bills don't get out of the bank and devalue the US dollar the CIA kills the depositor Pablo Escobar) there is $4 billion in authentic U.S. currency in the hands of the Iranians from the US's purchase of the super bills , and there is $4 billion in good currency with CIA launderer Nana Debusia.
Debusia took a pay out of 200 million dollars for his job well done, while the remaining 3.8 billion dollars went into accounts controled by vice president Gerorge Bush Sn. and CIA director william casey.
Now George bush commisons Oliver North to sell the Iranians military hardware and parts for the amount of $4 billion dollars, efectivly making their money back on the 4 billion used to purchase the super bills. A portion of that 4 billion dollars was a diverted to Contras of Nicaragua fighting a revolutionary war. ( hence the name Iran/Contra). The rest of the $4 billion went to CIA accounts to be utilized for covert and black operations.
Pretty nifty eh? To bad it was all against the law and they got caught. Some how some way, Bush Senior avoided major heat and went on to become President. What a guy.
