I am becoming completely disgusted with the McCain campaign's recent attacks on Barack Obama concerning his alleged connections with William Ayers, a former member of a radical group called the Weather Underground. Obama was eight years old when Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971 and The Pentagon in 1972 in reaction to the Vietnam War. And even now his "connections" only go as far as living in the same district with him, and campaigning for educational reform together about three years ago.
McCain himself has significant connections to U.S. Council for World Freedom, an offshoot of the radical World Anti-Communist League, who supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair. The U.S. Council for World Freedom has been linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.
McCain resigned from the group in 1984, by which time he had little choice due to the impending Iran-Contra scandal.
Good piece of information, no? Why don't more people in the "liberal media" mention this? Hopefully, that will change if McCain persists in linking Obama to Ayers.
-McCain and the U.S. Council For World Freedom [Washington Monthly]
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