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Originally Posted by GundamFan0083
The Contras were rebels trying to overthrow a dictator.
You know, like what Obama is doing with the rebels in Libya.
We're trying to support freedom fighters.
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I don't really care about the issue you are trying to discussion (I give you points for using hoplophobia in a sentence...though I've never once believed America or its media is hoplophobic), but I have to point out that the Contras were not simply rebels, but were terrorists whose main method of warfare was to indiscriminately attack civilians, often killing the men and raping the women, not to mention destroying non-military/government property, etc. That is not to say the Sandinista government was any better (they were also plagued with human rights violations), but the Contras are not really comparable to the current Libyan rebel forces (most of the pro-Contra nonsense was developed by the Reagan administration, who simply wished to combat the pro-Socialist/USSR Sandinista government).