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SalviaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 12:19 PM
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Ronald Reagan was not just wrong, he was a slimy corporate front man liar.
Just heard Thom Hartmann say this...Go Thom, tell it!!!
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 12:21 PM
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1. 'Bout time someone said it.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 12:45 PM
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2. The word is "puppet"
but if someone wants to tell me he was actually running the show...well shit.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 12:47 PM
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3. and an fbi mole. and an informer who named names during the hollywood red scare.
it's how he made his political bones.
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 01:03 PM
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4. He was nothing but a frontman for the neocons.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 01:09 PM
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5. The powers that Smedley Butler blew the whistle on in the '30s
found the "right" man for the job in Reagan in the '80s and W in the early 21st century.

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

This is a good summary, but there are other links on this.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 01:23 PM
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7. A BBC report on the coup plot
http://www.vloggingtheapocalypse.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=763&title=WHITE_HOUSE_COUP___SMEDLEY_BUTLER___PRESCOTT_BUSH
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 01:11 PM
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6. Thom rocks. Reagan rots.
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