EXCELLENT Reagan/Bush commentary at dailykos

[jackster]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/20/7202/89447

this gets my blood pressure pumpin' - truth is spoken to the nth degree - my feeling from day 1 of the evil Regean Regime.

Many people regard the incompetence, corruption - the sheer cravenness - of the Bush Administration as unprecedented in American history. But there is a robust argument that he was outshone in propagating evil and idiocy by the Administration most responsible for shaping modern times - that of Ronald Reagan.

A lot of people - even critics - think of Reagan wistfully, nostalgically. They think he was strong, stood up for America, was optimistic, and was probably a nice guy. In fact, he was a cynical, hypocritical con man who learned how to get people to like him with his ticks and charms (tilt head, two beats "well...heh, heh"). He got people to trust him with well-scripted, well-rehearsed lines, and then took them (us) to the cleaners - the colossal trench of debt we are digging for our kids, and the complete inability of current politicians to even discuss government finance like adults - is all the legacy of Reagan.

concluding with...

I'll conclude by restating my major theme: Letting Reagan and friends off the hook set the stage for Bush. Imagine what letting Bush off the hook would set the stage for.

A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE WHO WANTS THE TRUTH!

[blm]

1. This is why I always refer to IranContra and BCCI - BushInc's activities

are rooted in those two entanglements.

The better people get to know what happened there, the more they understand the agenda - it never changed.

[Nederland]

2. Clueless

Minerva is clueless about history. The notion that Afghanistan could become the Soviet Union's own Vietnam came from Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carters National Security advisor. It was Carter, not Reagan, that began funding the Mujahadeen.


http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/20/documents/brez.carter/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html

[blm]

4. True.... many people here at DU still don't know how conservative Carter

was at the time. You would think the fact that Kennedy challenged him in the primaries would give them a clue.

[sasha031]

3. yes that was an excellent read

I look forward to tomorrow,