The Washington Post has a letter today signed by various generals opposing the Iran nuclear deal. But as “Emptywheel” noted on Twitter:
This is an interesting guy signing a letter on how best to disarm Iran. http://t.co/maLUvIbmDO pic.twitter.com/1kaar6GnqP
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 26, 2015
That guy? John Poindexter, who was implicated in the Iran-Contra affair for having helped supply arms to Iran in the 1980s.
Which made me think today was a good day to post the Iran Contra Nursery Rhyme I wrote way back in middle school, so we could better remember why it is we currently find ourselves in this diplomatic mess with an over-armed country we helped make over-armed:
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