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===Chapter nine of __A People's History of American Empire__ does an excellent job at narrating the details of American involvement in the Sandinista Revolution. The people of America deserved to know what their country was doing.=== ===After the contras' funding was cancelled Americans found out about the Iran Contra Scandal. But did the American people know that even when the contras were funded legally and publicly by the government the money sent not only killed the revolutionaries but innocent women and children? The American people should have known what their government was doing so that they could have a say, it is after all the "government of the people" as Abraham Lincoln once said. Perhaps if the people would have known more about the contras 1 they would not have elected George H. W. Bush president. He was the vice president when Reagan was president and was involved in the contras. Reagan retired after the end of his term in peace. Not only was Bush involved but after he was elected president he made sure that six officials involved in the Iran Contra Scandal were granted pardon. No one was ever punished.=== ===This comic book helped me realize why some people may be suspicious and doubt if the United States' actions are genuine or if they have ulterior motives. The author of the book feels strongly that "The truth about American foreign policy is that it never changes", as he has one of the characters say. I doubt that he is the only one that feels that way. After the Iran Contra Scandal and the way it was handled by the United States' government the message they sent was that powerful people in the United States go unpunished and that the country as a whole does not regret their actions. The saying that history repeats itself may seem to be coming true when other countries look at United States' actions with Nicaragua and Iraq. The United States' previous actions have made people from other countries uneasy about the United States' present actions, this may be the only consequence of the Iran Contra Scandal.===

1. Amazingly, many Americans SUPPORTED these actions.

Well done. As a proper noun, "Contras" should be capitalized.

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