THE WAR REPORT

THE WAR REPOR T:

EVERYTHING YO U’VE EVER WAN TED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WAR ON DR UGS

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WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT COULD HAVE ENDED THE WAR ON DRUGS IN 1988? WOULD YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW AND WHY? OF COURSE YOU WOULD. BUT IN ORDER TO DO THAT, I HAVE TO REFERENCE THE HOLY GRAIL ON THE WAR ON DRUGS. A DOCUMENT WAS WRITTEN IN DECEMBER OF 1988 AND IT WAS CALLED, THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRORISM, NARCOTICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND IT WAS AUTHORED BY OUR GLORIOUS AND DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN SENATE. ALL THE ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS TO THE FAILED WAR ON DRUGS ARE CONTAINED INSIDE THIS DOCUMENT, AND OUR COUNTRY DECIDED TO IGNORE IT, BUT WHY...?

Y R O T S K BAC HOW JOHN KERRY EXPOSED THE CONTRA-COCAINE SCANDAL Nicaraguan Contra rebels were smuggling cocaine into the United States, and one US senator put his political career on the line to follow up on our disturbing findings.

His name was John Kerry.

In early 1986, the 42-year-old Democrat stood almost alone in the US Senate demanding answers about the emerging evidence that CIA-backed Contras were filling their coffers by collaborating with drug traffickers flooding US borders with cocaine from South America.

In taking on the inquiry, Kerry challenged President Ronald Reagan at the height of his power, at a time he was calling the Contras the “moral equals of the Founding Fathers.”

Kerry’s questions represented a particular embarrassment to Vice President George H.W. Bush, whose responsibilities included overseeing U.S. drug-interdiction policies.

Kerry took on the investigation though he didn’t have much support within his own party.

By 1986, congressional Democrats had little stomach left for challenging the Reagan-Bush Contra war.

Kerry’s probe infuriated Reagan’s White House, which was pushing Congress to restore military funding for the Contras.

Some in the administration also saw Kerry’s investigation as a threat to the secrecy surrounding the Contra supply operation, which was being run illegally by White House aide Oliver North and members of Bush’s vice presidential staff.

T R O P E R THE The Kerry Committee report, formally titled Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, was the final report of an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations.

The report examined the problems that drug cartels and drug money laundering in South and Central America and the Caribbean posed for American law enforcement and foreign policy.

The Sub-Committee was chaired at the time

by Democratic Party Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts, so that the report is often referred to under his name.

The report was released on April 13, 1989, and included discussions of drug trafficking in the Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba and Nicaragua, Haiti, Honduras, and Panama.

The longest chapter in the report was on narcotics trafficking and the Nicaraguan Contras.

The Subcommittee determined that there was "substantial evidence of drug smuggling on the part of individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots, mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters".

It "did not find that Contra leaders were personally involved in drug trafficking".