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jingofever wrote:I was just going to resurrect the original post because I remembered a Topps Desert Storm trading card I have - "PATRIOT - THE SCUD INTERCEPTER" and I am simultaneously on eBay looking to buy some more. There's a word for that, I'm sure of it.

Topps website for the Desert Storm series.

Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:I have one series of those original Desert Storm trading cards. Ugh.

Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Just a three days ago I posted the link to AuthenticHistory.com's website with the IranContra Trading Cards.
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=12894

Now...Gone. Just '404 Not Found.' The ENTIRE website of AuthenticHistory.com with popular culture images is gone.

Damn. Should've downloaded them all.

Anyone find them? Who says spooks don't pay attention to what we write here?

The names were-

Card #- Name

1 The Iran-Contra Hearings

2 Anastasio Somoza

3 Enrique Bermudez

4 Adolfo Calero

5 William Casey

6 Caspar Weinberger

7 John Singlaub

8 Thomas Posey

9 The La Penca Bomber

10 Rene Corvo & Felipe Vidal

11 The Medellin Cartel

12 John Hull

13 Oliver North

14 Robert Owen

15 Carl "Spitz" Channel

16 Joseph Coors

17 King Fahd

18 Elliot Abrams

19 Richard Secord

20 Albert Hakim

21 Richard Gadd & Robert Dutton

22 Thomas Clines

23 Rafael "Chi Chi" Quintero

24 Theodore Shackley

25 William Buckley

26 Manucher Ghorbanifar

27 David Kimche

28 Robert McFarlane

29 Eugene Hasenfus

30 Felix Rodriguez

31 Donald Gregg

32 George Bush

33 Edwin Meese III

34 Fawn Hall

35 John Poindexter

36 Ronald Reagan

March 15, 2010 "Consortiumnews" -- Last week’s death of Israeli spymaster David Kimche – and the omissions in his obituaries about his most sensitive operations, especially those regarding the United States – are a reminder of how much crucial history is being lost as key figures from this era take their secrets to the grave.

The failure to debrief as many of these people as possible can be blamed significantly on U.S. mainstream journalists who in years past took the lead in collecting, vetting and presenting serious evidence of historical wrongdoing, such as the Pentagon Papers secrets about the Vietnam War and complex political scandals like Watergate.

But in recent years, newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have ignored many national security crimes or even have gone on the offensive against journalists who tried to examine them, such as the ugly assault on investigative reporter Gary Webb over his work on the now-CIA-admitted cocaine trafficking by Ronald Reagan’s Nicaraguan contra rebels.

The problem has been compounded by the timidity of Democratic leaders to conduct thorough investigations of Republican wrongdoing, such as in 1993 when Bill Clinton became President and in 2009 under Barack Obama. In both cases, new Democratic administrations thought that looking forward, not backward, would achieve some measure of bipartisanship. Not likely.

And, the American Left has offered little help, usually staying on the sidelines when there's evidence of a genuine government conspiracy (though some leftists have gotten carried away with invented conspiracies, such as the 9/11 “truth” movement’s witness-less claims about "controlled demolitions" of the Twin Towers and "a missile, not a plane, hitting the Pentagon.”)

This combination of disinterest in actual conspiracies and fascination with conspiracy parlor games has made the assembling of real history about the past several decades next to impossible...