MEMBER BLOG TAG: battalion 316
| Wednesday, August 5, 2009 12:40PM | | | | Drugs: Nancy Said No, Ronnie Said Y | Tags: narcotics, contras, Reagan, terrorism, CIA, National Security Council, Oliver North, Saddam Hussein, Battalion 316,
| | | | When Ronald Reagan died, his complicit enablers in the media lauded him for his myth-making “city on a hill,” ignoring the condemnation of the International Court of Justice that America had hidden its light under a bushel of terrorism. David Podvin commented, “On air and in print, the truth about the fortieth president was distorted beyond recognition by commentators determined to transform a bad leader (and even worse human being) into a hallowed icon.”
Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker wrote that Reagan “undermined environmental, civil-rights, and labor protections, neglected the AIDS epidemic, and packed the courts with reactionary mediocrities. He made callousness respectable.” Others pointed out that wealth was concentrated in the richest few, Reagan gave amnesty to almost 3 million illegal immigrants to... | | | | | |
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