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Reagan's Shameful Legacy
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What is shameful is Ted Rall. He is a rabid Liberal/Socailist/Communist who is incapable of objectivity. Want to start with Iran/Contra?
The Democrat-controlled Congress concocted the Boland amendment to use funding for the Contras as a political weapon against the Reagan administration. Never mind that peoples' lives depended on continued support--that would never be allowed to stand in the way of political expediency.
Reagan authorized Oliver North to broker a deal for a PRIVATE arms dealer to sell weapons to Iran--mostly obsolete stuff. The proceeds of that sale were funnelled to the Contras in an effort to keep their fight for freedom going. No U.S. government money was used; it was a private transaction. Amazingly, the prosecutors in the case argued that the proceeds belonged to the American people. No law was broken. Reagan found an ingenious way of circumventing the asinine Congress with the help of a great American servant and patriot Col North. Those are the FACTS. Look 'em up.
The Democrat-controlled Congress concocted the Boland amendment to use funding for the Contras as a political weapon against the Reagan administration. Never mind that peoples' lives depended on continued support--that would never be allowed to stand in the way of political expediency.
Reagan authorized Oliver North to broker a deal for a PRIVATE arms dealer to sell weapons to Iran--mostly obsolete stuff. The proceeds of that sale were funnelled to the Contras in an effort to keep their fight for freedom going. No U.S. government money was used; it was a private transaction. Amazingly, the prosecutors in the case argued that the proceeds belonged to the American people. No law was broken. Reagan found an ingenious way of circumventing the asinine Congress with the help of a great American servant and patriot Col North. Those are the FACTS. Look 'em up.
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digger said:
oh no....
LOL
So, aid went away. In the Clinton years, laws were passed that you lose your financial aid with a drug conviction...any drug conviction....like a joint would do it.
Bad foreign policy? We've been fucking up the Middle east since oil was found there. Should have just taken the motherfucker over, or ignored it.
USSR/Russia? Srying that it is worse NOW than it was then it idiotic. The USSR is the greatest mass murderer in human history. It is destroyed. Reagan was the key force in killing it.
Firing the air traffic controllers? Brilliant. Should have gone further to destroy unions in total.
Undoing FDRs new Deal? 55 years too late - those programs have reduced millions of Americans to handout receivers from a shrinking group of producers.
On balance he was a great president; historians rank him as one of the best. Bush....another story.
Stupid policies abound.
Bad foreign policy? We've been fucking up the Middle east since oil was found there. Should have just taken the motherfucker over, or ignored it.
USSR/Russia? Srying that it is worse NOW than it was then it idiotic. The USSR is the greatest mass murderer in human history. It is destroyed. Reagan was the key force in killing it.
Firing the air traffic controllers? Brilliant. Should have gone further to destroy unions in total.
Undoing FDRs new Deal? 55 years too late - those programs have reduced millions of Americans to handout receivers from a shrinking group of producers.
On balance he was a great president; historians rank him as one of the best. Bush....another story.
Stupid policies abound.
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