God Bless Ronald Reagan!

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You bible-banging hypocrites can rest assured that if there was such a thing as hell, that your hero Reagan would damn sure be there right now roasting on a spit, just like the pig he was in life...


Killer, Coward, Conman - Good Riddance, Ronnie Reagan
By Greg Palast
Jun 6, 2004, 20:51




June 6, 2004 -- You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to.



Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.



In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.



People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there had elected.



Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while they buried the mother of three.



And when Hezbollah terrorists struck and murdered hundreds of American marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior ran away like a whipped dog ... then turned around and invaded Grenada. That little Club Med war was a murderous PR stunt so Ronnie could hold parades for gunning down Cubans building an airport.



I remember Nancy, a skull and crossbones prancing around in designer dresses, some of the "gifts" that flowed to the Reagans -- from hats to million-dollar homes -- from cronies well compensated with government loot. It used to be called bribery.



And all the while, Grandpa grinned, the grandfather who bleated on about "family values" but didn't bother to see his own grandchildren.



The New York Times today, in its canned obit, wrote that Reagan projected, "faith in small town America" and "old-time values." "Values" my ass. It was union busting and a declaration of war on the poor and anyone who couldn't buy designer dresses. It was the New Meanness, bringing starvation back to America so that every millionaire could get another million.



"Small town" values? From the movie star of the Pacific Palisades, the Malibu mogul? I want to throw up.



And all the while, in the White House basement, as his brain boiled away, his last conscious act was to condone a coup d'etat against our elected Congress. Reagan's Defense Secretary Casper the Ghost Weinberger with the crazed Colonel, Ollie North, plotted to give guns to the Monster of the Mideast, Ayatolla Khomeini.



Reagan's boys called Jimmy Carter a weanie and a wuss although Carter wouldn't give an inch to the Ayatolla. Reagan, with that film-fantasy tough-guy con in front of cameras, went begging like a coward cockroach to Khomeini pleading on bended knee for the release of our hostages.



Ollie North flew into Iran with a birthday cake for the maniac mullah -- no kidding --in the shape of a key. The key to Ronnie's heart.



Then the Reagan roaches mixed their cowardice with crime: taking cash from the hostage-takers to buy guns for the "contras" - the drug-runners of Nicaragua posing as freedom fighters.



I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the bullhorn, "The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby orders this demonstration to disburse" ... and then came the teargas and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the Gipper.



In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard their kids from attack from Reagan's Contra terrorists. The farmers weren't even Sandinistas, those 'Commies' that our cracked-brained President told us were 'only a 48-hour drive from Texas.' What the hell would they want with Texas, anyway?



Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were Ronnie's targets.



In the deserted darkness of Chaguitillo, a TV blared. Weirdly, it was that third-rate gangster movie, "Brother Rat." Starring Ronald Reagan.



Well, my friends, you can rest easier tonight: the Rat is dead.



Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance.



Greg Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. www.GregPalast.com
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[trish]

Right On!

[guyone]

Nice fantasy...

Carter was the real coward. Let Iran hold our hosteges for over a year. He screwed up the economy and everything else in this country for that matter.

MAY CARTER ROT IN HELL.

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Right On!I'm glad that you dug it trish! I'm sure that many others on the forum will too... 8)

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Right On!

Big friggin' co-sign here Trish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And while we're on the subject of the gone, and goodfucking-riddance, gipper...

A Vet Remembers the Crimes of Ronald Reagan


I’m a vet of Viet Nam. A friend of mine, 63, just seriously injured his back. He’s also a vet of Korea and Viet Nam. He is broke and has no health insurance. He applied for help last month at a VA hospital and they told him they had no room at the inn – service was too long ago, etcetera etcetera.

Thank you Mr. Bush.

The young people on the front lines are focused on the future.

Will the Chief give them guns, bullets, tanks, whatever, in the shitholes they are sent to?

If Bush says yes, they cheer and clap for the Chief. I guess that’s natural. They’re young, and living in the moment.

After they are shot, or have a face or leg or arm torn off, and are put out in the street after being patched up, that’s when they stop believing the Bush and Republican nonsense and lies. When they
are old, and tired, and need help from the nation they served, and get turned away – that’s when military guys start getting a more realistic sense of politics, lies, and more lies of the Republicans.

just had a nervous breakdown after listening to the same funereal music with a picture of President Ray-Gun in a cowboy hat, and a string of old men seeking publicity parading across the TV channels, each more unctuous and toadying than the last.

Mr Ray-Gun was a nut who believed in laser beams shooting down missles, as if that were going to save mankind from itself.

He loved America but he did business with every vicious tyrant on the
planet, from Saddam Hussein to Ferdinand Marcos.

He sent Don Rumsfeld over to meet Saddam twice in 1984, and shipped the chemical weapons that may have been used on Kurds and Iranians.

His shrew of a wife consulted astrologers and tormented their children and threw their son out of the house because he was gay, while Reagan stood by doing nothing.

Now Nancy is a walking vegetable and the children are grown up and brainwashed again and telling happy stories about their Daddy. It makes me want to puke.

The reason Clinton had to try and bring down the national deficit was because of Reagan, who spent wildly and insanely on military gadgets and projects, without any consideration that later generations
would have to pay the bills.

Reagan went to Berlin and said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
in stentorian tones. If Reagan had real balls, he would have torn down the Wall in Berlin himself. He would have cleaned the Commies out of Poland instead of invading Granada. What a bunch of shit people are willing to swallow about Presidents, once they’re dead.

Reagan made Army films during the ordeal of WWII in which so many American men died, in an all-too-familiar pattern which George W. Bush followed. Patriot who favors war, as long as somebody else does the fighting and dying.

Reagan emptied the mental hospitals in California in the 1970’s to cut expenses for the California state budget, flooding the streets and parks of California with incoherent lunatics and addicts, about a third of whom were military veterans of Viet Nam.

Row upon row of homeless men slept under the palm trees along the Palisade in Santa Monica, overlooking the glorious Pacific, and early morning joggers had to dodge their begging grip.

I remember, I was there.

Oringinally published --
http;//www.bartcop.com

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[Caleigh]

co-sign on those sentiments Mike

how he and north avoided any prosecution is another in a long list of gov't scandals

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THE RONALD REAGAN MYTH


"Ronald Reagan must be the nicest president who ever destroyed a union, tried to cut school lunch milk rations from six to four ounces, and compelled families in need of public help to first dispose of household goods in excess of $1,000...1f there is an authoritarian regime in the American future, Ronald Reagan is tailored to the image of a friendly fascist." - Robert Lekachman

the rest of this scathing indictment of The Great Prevaricator here-

http://prorev.com/reagan.htm

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GREAT THOUGHTS OF RONALD REAGAN

"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"
--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), quoted in the Sacramento Bee, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park, March 3, 1966

"I don't believe a tree is a tree and if you've seen one you've seen them all."
--Governor Ronald Reagan, in the Sacramento Bee, September 14, 1966

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
--Ronald Reagan (Republican candidate for president), quoted in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, February 15, 1980. (In reality, the average nuclear reactor generates 30 tons of radioactive waste per year.)

"I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Time magazine, October 20, 1980. (According to scientists, Mount St. Helens emitted about 2,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per day at its peak activity, compared with 81,000 tons per day produced by cars.)

"Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1980. (According to Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund, industrial sources are responsible for at least 65 percent and possibly as much as 90 percent of the oxides of nitrogen in the U.S.)

"Approximately 80 percent of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation. So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards for man-made sources."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Sierra, September 10, 1980

"I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Detroit Free Press, March 23, 1980. (According to the USGS, the Saudi reserves of 165.5 billion barrels are 17 times the proven reserves--9.2 billion barrels--in Alaska.)

"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
--Ronald Reagan, campaign speech, 1980

"Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1980. (The U.S. Department of Transportation calculates that a 14-car train traveling at 80 miles per hour gets 400 passenger miles to the gallon. A 1980 auto carrying an average of 2.2 people gets 42.6 passenger miles to the gallon.)

"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."
--Ronald Reagan (candidate for Governor of California), interviewed in the Fresno Bee, October 10, 1965

"I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war [in Vietnam] than the people have been told."
--Ronald Reagan, in the Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1967

"...the moral equal of our Founding Fathers."
--President Reagan, describing the Nicaraguan contras, March 1, 1985

"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Time, May 17, 1976

"I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself."
--President Reagan, in an interview with foreign journalists, April 19, 1985. ("In costume" is more like it. Reagan spent World War II making Army training films at Hal Roach Studios in Hollywood.)

"They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Washington Times, September 30, 1987. (Reagan longs for the days of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the HCUA witch hunts.)

"We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years."
--President Reagan, quoted in USA Today, April 26, 1983

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice."
--President Reagan, defending himself against charges of callousness on Good Morning America, January 31, 1984

"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1965

"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966

"If there has to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with."
--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1969. (Reagan reveals how he intends to deal with student protesters at the University of California, Berkeley.)

"Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border."
--Ronald Reagan, in a speech announcing his candidacy for Governor, January 3, 1966. (In fact, immigrants to California had to wait five years before becoming eligible for benefits. Reagan acknowledged his error, but nine months later said exactly the same thing.)

"...a faceless mass, waiting for handouts."
--Ronald Reagan, 1965. (Description of Medicaid recipients.)

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
--California Governor Ronald Reagan, in the Sacramento Bee, April 28, 1966

"We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet."
--Ronald Reagan, TV speech, October 27, 1964

"But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth [to charity]."
--Ronald Reagan, from The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, February 8, 1982. (He may believe in tithing, but he doesn't practice it. Reagan's total charitable giving of $5,965 did not approach 10% of total income. It was more like 1.4%.)

"[Not] until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together. There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this."
--President Reagan revealing a disturbing view about the "coming of Armageddon," December 6, 1983

"History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness."
--Ronald Reagan, in Time, April 14, 1980. (History shows no such thing. Income tax rates in Europe have traditionally been far higher than U.S. rates, while European crime rates have been much lower.)

"Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything."
--Ronald Reagan, in Newsweek, April 21, 1980. (Wrong again.)

"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close."
--Ronald Reagan to aide Stuart Spencer, 1966

Quotes are from Reagan's Reign of Error by Mark Green & Gail MacColl, and The Clothes Have No Emperor by Paul Slansky

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