This is no Watergate, Iran Contra or missing WMD.

这不是水门，不是伊朗或者大规模杀伤性武器。

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The Iran-Contra story was out; White House aides John Poindexter and Oliver North had broken the law and lied about it to Congress.

当时，“伊朗门事件“已经被踢爆，白宫助手约翰·波因德克斯特和奥利弗·诺思违反了法律，并对国会撒谎。

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Opponents alleged Gates, then the CIA's number two, hadn't done enough to stop the Iran-Contra scheme.

反对者指控当时中情局二号人物盖茨在制止伊朗门计划做得还不够。

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We had the impeachment of President Clinton, we had the Vietnam War, we had the Iran-Contra investigation, periods when the two parties had an enormously high level of tension.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

"The Bush Dyslexicon" has been endorsed by some Republicans, including Judge Lawrence Walsh, who was the independent counsel in the Iran Contra hearings, and Ariana Huffington who has certainly been no supporter of Clinton-Gore.

CNN: 'The Bush Dyslexicon' author Mark Crispin Miller

Reagan sounds genuinely surprised in his diary about the Iran-contra mess, in which his people sold weapons to Iran and then sent some of the money to the contras, the rebels trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.

ECONOMIST: Ronald Reagan

But the Iran-Contra scandal - revelations that the US had been covertly selling arms to Iran in the hope of securing the release of hostages held in Lebanon - caused friction between the US and Baghdad.

BBC: Struggle for Iraq