Democratic Senator George Mitchell, a devout Catholic with his own military pedigree, rebuffed North’s patriotic platitudes: . . . you asked that Congress not cut off aid to the contras, for the love of God and for the love of country. . . . Please remember that others share that devotion and recognize that it is possible for an American to disagree with you on aid to the contras and still love God and still love this country just as much as you do. Although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics. And in America, disagreement with the policies of the
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