Reply #21: I did not miss your point [View All]

[karynnj]

He actually did speak of terrorism in 2004. He did not speak directly about Iran/Contra in 2004 because it would have been political suicide. Reagan died in June 2004 and was immediately cannonized as a new American saint by the media. Even the things most people had previously accepted as Reagan negatives - the economy - were whitewashed. The country was also in one of thr recurrent black/white narrative periods where people accept the idiotic idea of arming thugs around the world to fight our enemy. (which worked so well with the Afghan warlords - Kerry spoke of that debacle) Do you think saying that he brought to light that Reagan illegally armed the Contras would win people in the middle that Kerry needed? Consider that in the 1980s, Clinton and other Democrats were in FAVOR of arming the Contras, though legally. Kerry had the left, even if they didn't love him. He needed to win more people in the middle - and do it in a very hostile media environment.