Kerry, cocaine, Reagan and Bush

[Kooperman]

Kerry's Contra-Cocaine Chapter

By Robert Parry

October 29, 2004 (Originally published at Salon.com)

In December 1985, when Brian Barger and I wrote a groundbreaking story for the Associated Press about Nicaraguan Contra rebels smuggling cocaine into the United States, one U.S. senator put his political career on the line to follow up on our disturbing findings. His name was John Kerry.

Yet, over the past year, even as Kerry's heroism as a young Navy officer in Vietnam has become a point of controversy, this act of political courage by a freshman senator has gone virtually unmentioned, even though -- or perhaps because -- it marked Kerry's first challenge to the Bush family.

For the complete article click here:

http://consortiumnews.com/2004/102904.html

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the link won't load.

[DudeAsInCool]

Worked earlier...

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Works for me.

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The link is a flip flopper.

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thanks, for some reason, it dint work yesterday but works fine now. anyway, w/o reading the entire article, this:

one U.S. senator put his political career on the line to follow up on our disturbing findings. His name was John Kerry.

would be totally enough for me to want this guy to win (whomever it is kerry or bush apart from the fact bush doesn't have shit to put on any line) but anyway, after hearing a person felt so strongly about something he put his career on the line for this reason. but that's just me and my values--your mileage may vary.