Commander-in-Chief Reagan issues National Security Decision Directive 114, pledging to do “whatever was legal and necessary” to prevent Iraq from losing the Iraqi-Iranian War.”
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2004), 224.