Results: The Iran Contra
The Iran-Contra was a scandal in the 1980s in the US where officials under the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to adversary Iran to secure hostage releases and illicitly funneled the profits to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua. This led to major investigations in 1986.
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Are you old enough to have lived when the Iran-Contra scandal was happening? Yes
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833 votes
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132 votes
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190 votes
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Do you know who Oliver North is? He was a Marine Lieutenant Colonel and National Security Council staffer and was the central figure in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal. He orchestrated a covert network to illegally sell weapons to Iran. Yes
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734 votes
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218 votes
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203 votes
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Did you know that Oliver North the same guy who sold weapons to Iran is now a pundit on right-wing media channels arguing that Iran should not have missiles? Yes
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273 votes
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610 votes
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272 votes
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