Righties are crying now, saying that Reagan should have got the Nobel Prize too

[ck4829]

Here is a list, I doubt it includes everything, as to WHY Reagan doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but he should get the first Nobel Prize for Crimes against Humanity:

Favoring "constructive engagement" with the Apartheid Regime over ending it
Providing assistance for the Contras
Selling weapons to Iran
Covering up the El Mozote massacre
Said that Efrain Rios Montt was getting a "bum rap", even though he tried to ethnically cleanse Guatemala of indigenous Mayans
Helping Saddam Hussein aim his weapons of mass destruction, that the Reagan Administration also gave them, at Iran
Told the Contras to target schools, doctors, and humanitarian activists. This doctrine got an American killed by a Contra team
Helped the terrorists we fight today

If Reagan contributed to peace, then Genghis Khan must have been actually Jesus.

[Perry Logan]

1. The proper name is Ronald "Death Squad" Reagan.

[annabanana]

2. pfft.. His hagiography is all posthumous and wrong.. .

All made up.

[ixion]

3. ah yes... Ray-gun was such a peacenik

after all, he started the so-called War on Drugs which caused the US prison population to sky-rocket.

He ordered the illegal invasion of Grenada, causing the deaths of thousands.

He ordered funding of the fascist Contras in Central America.

He was at the helm when Rummy took chemical weapons to Iraq, and looked the other way when Saddam used them on Iraqis.

This is just the beginning.

Oh yeah, some peaceful guy, Ray-gun. :sarcasm:

[catmandu57]

17. I believe it was nixon who started the drug war

rayguns just turned it into a for profit venture.

[ixion]

27. nixon turned up the heat, for sure, but it was Ray-Gun that coined the term

I remember the headline in 1985. "Reagan declares War on Drugs", and I knew we had drawn one step closer to the police state.

[tex-wyo-dem]

25. And let's not forget that the invasion of Grenada was purely a distraction...

from the political fallout of the bombing of the marine barracks in Beruit.

Such an upstanding guy, that ray-gun.

[sutz12]

4. I believe that's Ronald Ray-guns...

:evilgrin:

[Kolesar]

5. El Mozote massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre

[kurth]

6. RW Nobel: Erik Prince and Blackwater USA for keeping the peace in Iraq

[Joanne98]

16. Mercenaries for peace! LOL

[Ganja Ninja]

7. It's not the Nobel "Peace of the Grave" Prize.

Otherwise the ol' Gipper would have won.

[bullimiami]

8. is there a nobel prize for covert war and lies? reagan was real good at it.

[B Calm]

9. Whiny ass neo cons.. Always the victims... poor babies..

[MikeDuffy]

10. And why not Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush

and while we are at it, all the other peace loving (but protectors of freedom) heroes of their time!

[spanone]

11. Yea, Iran/Contra certainly deserved the peace prize

[Perseid]

12. gotten

otherwise, i agree with the post

[Totally Committed]

13. Why is that?

Every government building, airport, highway, bridge, and slab of concrete that isn't dedicated to the Ten Commandments instead has been named or renamed after him since his Presidency. It's never enough for the RW Extremists, is it?

Reagan did more to create homelessness and surreptitious wars than any President in my lifetime EXCEPT GWB. Yes... The Nobel Peace Prize is EXACTLY what he deserved... :sarcasm:

TC

[YOY]

14. Apparently the definition of "Peace" escapes their fear riddled minds

n/t

[Joanne98]

15. All those mass graves in Central America kinda ruled him out!

[bdamomma]

18. he really did not recognize AIDS either, until Liz Taylor threw it

in his face.

[tridim]

19. The top search terms on FR this morning..

2008 · algore · aliens · clinton · democratparty · democrats · election · electionpresident · elections

Worried much FR?

[formercia]

20. You don't get a Peace Prize for committing Genocide in Central America

it's spelled Peace not piece you dumb fucks.

[hvn_nbr_2]

21. Reading too fast, I missed your first paragraph and started reading the list

I thought it was a list of the reasons the wingnuts thought he should have gotten it! Well, actually, it probably is.

[Richard Steele]

22. What part of "Peace" do these fucktards not understand? nm

[gratuitous]

23. They tried to give Reagan the Nobel Peace Prize

But for some reason, it kept slipping out of his blood-soaked hands.

[slackmaster]

24. They're still saying Reagan should be added to Mount Rushmore

[Ganja Ninja]

26. If only Nobel had a category for genocide or environmental ..

destruction then the Republicans could finally win something.

[orleans]

28. for what?? fucking star wars?? for the "tear down this wall" crap?

let those repricks cry me a river

[Cetacea]

29. "Trees cause more pollution than people" nuff said.

http://www.daticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view

[Arugula Latte]

30. They should dig him up and award his corpse a prize.

Then Fox News can bronze him and prop him up outside their headquarters.