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Iran Contra was an interesting time. I'm glad Bush pardoned them. I wanted that chapter over, but it never seems to be over.
Standing in a field of coffee beans in Coyolar, several miles from the provincial capital of Matagalpa, I listened to a campesino coffee farmer as he pointed to a point higher on the mountainside, the point from where the Contras launched their attack on his village ten years before. He swept his hand from the mountainside to the village, describing where they had burned the clinic, shot some of the men and destroyed the school.
I asked him what he would do if those men walked toward him, across his coffee field today.
“If he was a private? Nothing. He was just a campesino like me.
But if he was an officer? I’d shoot him dead.”
