According to North's sworn testimony, his primary effort was coordinating covert sales of weapons to the government of Iran, and then funneling those profits to buy weapons for the Contra army in Nicaragua, acitivites which he admitted were illegal actions. His defense was that he was "just following orders". According to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, it is a soldier's duty to disobey illegal orders. North spent a year in Vietnam. Is it possible that somehow he never heard of the My Lai Massacre?
Since when is it heroic to shred documents needed for a government investigation, to lie to Congress about the National Security Council's activities and to alter official memoranda and chronologies to suit one's own purposes? And what's heroic about helping create a secret foreign policy contrary to our country's publicly stated intentions and laws? That's all I will say about it - we are all entitled to our own thoughts and opinions, and mine is he displayed total disregard for the Constitution.
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