Let's not forget Iran Contra today and how He got away with Treason

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

and of course the Voodoo economics that plagues us still.

[get the red out]

1. I came to DU just now

Because the Reagan-worshipping is making me nauseous. Why don't the Republicans just change their right wing Christianity to Reaganianity and be done with it?

[solara]

2. Reagan, a terrible president and an amoral man K&R

:kick: kickety


Lest we forget...

[cutlassmama]

3. KandR

[Octafish]

4. Sold arms to the terrorists who killed 241 American service members.

And he didn't remember doing it!

[Sal Minella]

6. And his vice president knew nothing about it, neither.

Remember Poppy insisting he was "outside the loop?"

As a former head of CIA, he was "outside the loop." check.

[Octafish]

8. George Bush Takes Charge: The Uses of ‘Counter-Terrorism’

From Christopher Simpson, info on how Poppy stole the show:

George Bush Takes Charge: The Uses of ‘Counter-Terrorism’

By Christopher Simpson
Covert Action Quarterly 58

A paper trail of declassified documents from the Reagan‑Bush era yields valuable information on how counter‑terrorism provided a powerful mechanism for solidifying Bush's power base and launching a broad range of national security initiatives.

During the Reagan years, George Bush used "crisis management" and "counter‑terrorism" as vehicles for running key parts of the clandestine side of the US government.

Bush proved especially adept at plausible denial. Some measure of his skill in avoiding responsibility can be taken from the fact that even after the Iran‑Contra affair blew the Reagan administration apart, Bush went on to become the "foreign policy president," while CIA Director William Casey, by then conveniently dead, took most of the blame for a number of covert foreign policy debacles that Bush had set in motion.

The trail of National Security Decision Directives (NSDDS) left by the Reagan administration begins to tell the story. True, much remains classified, and still more was never committed to paper in the first place. Even so, the main picture is clear: As vice president, George Bush was at the center of secret wars, political murders, and America's convoluted oil politics in the Middle East.

The Reagan‑era National Security Council (NSC) used NSDDs to formulate high‑level policy on political and military matters. The directives ranged from presidential orders for testing nuclear weapons to negotiating strategies for US representatives at various international summits.

Reagan and the NSC also used NSDDs to settle conflicts among security agencies over bureaucratic turf and lines of command. It is through that prism that we see the first glimmers of Vice President Bush's role in clandestine operations during the 1980s.

CONTINUED...

http://books.google.com/books?id=YZqRyj_QXf8C&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=christopher+simpson+The+Uses+of+%E2%80%98Counter-Terrorism%E2%80%99&source=bl&ots=8klB0PzATX&sig=hi9DpE3qF43Oefh7iGn79W4jXQs&hl=en&ei=zAFQTeriBsr2gAfu1Mgc&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=christopher%20simpson%20The%20Uses%20of%20%E2%80%98Counter-Terrorism%E2%80%99&f=false

Gee. Mr. Out-of-the-Loop really ran the show.

[Whisp]

5. you would think he was bigger than Gandhi by how

CNN is sucking his johnson so pleasureably. Gergen has something white dripping off his chin.

good fucking grief.

have they Ever said more than 4 kind sentences about any democratic president? ever? and this holy shrine to the Doddering Idiot.

sickening beyond measure.

[Enthusiast]

7. I will never forget.

Reagan is the source of our problems.

[spanone]

9. he ILLEGALLY sold arms to IRAN.