Reagan won the Cold War, here's proof!
POSTED BY: Skywalken
UPDATED: Saturday, February 24, 2007 02:32
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No, no, NO!
It was Nancy's Astrologist...let's keep it real...
Hmmm...I wonder what the sign of "The Pucker" would look like..."Give 'em one for the Pucker!"
Overheard in a D.C. bar, circa 1979:
:What's your sign?"
"I'm an asshole."
"Yeah, yeah, but what's your sign?"
Anyway, that's what I think...
MT
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MedforTim, Reagan was the greatest President of the 20th Century. That you're resort to childish name calling like that shows everyone what a worthless piece of go se you really are.
Congrats.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Quote:Oh sweet irony.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
That you're resort to childish name calling like that shows everyone what a worthless piece of go se you really are.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Originally posted by Hero:
Reagan had a vision.
Sure. He just couldn't remember what it was...
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Quote:Au, you really MUST be a child (talking age here) if you don't remember Iran/Contra...
Originally posted by AURaptor:
MedforTim, Reagan was the greatest President of the 20th Century.
Quote:...I'm forced to agree with Tim here- I say 'forced' because the DOCUMENTED FACTS DEMAND A REASONABLE REACTION ON MY PART.
Remember, he's the prick who traded arms with Iran so he could illegally fund terrorists in Central America. Oops, I forgot! When we supply them, they're "freedom fighters." It's only when we disagree that they become "terrorists."
You are so far out of reality when it comes to the USA foreign policy history that it's truly sad, my friend.
At least you like Buffy and Firefly- there is good in you....
Was Clinton one of our greatest Presidents? I mean, we had a good economy under him!!! I could show you folks that worship him no matter what, too. Doesn't that tell ya anything, AU?
Not above the Law Chrisisall
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Quote:
Reagan was the greatest President of the 20th Century.
My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's not true, but the facts and the evidence tell me...nope, still not.
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Originally posted by citizen:Quote:Oh sweet irony.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
That you're resort to childish name calling like that shows everyone what a worthless piece of go se you really are.
Much better response than mine. I was going to go highbrow to confuse him, You know:
"Nyah Nyah! I'm rubber, you're glue..."
Anyway, that's what I think...
MT
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Containment!
From Truman to Carter that was the policy when dealing with the Soviet Union. Containment failed. The ultimate goal of the Soviet empire was a global communist revolution, therefore the Soviets could never have been contained.
What made Ronald Reagan great was that he came and essentially said "fuck that containment shit"! (Not literally.
)
Reagan confronted the Soviet Union, marking a sharp departure from that "détente" crap. He realized that a planned economy could not compete against a market economy in a renewed arms race and so he made the Cold War hot...in an economic and rhetoricall sense.
In 1983, Reagan upped the ante on the arms race by proposing the Strategic Defense Initiative. Because the Soviets would have to keep up technologically, the project's price tag contributed to AND accelerated the fall of the Soviet Union...courtesy of Ronald Reagan.
Reagan dramatically increased America's covert involvement funding Afghan resistance fighters against the commies and the whole thing became a CIA job. The ten year war exhausted the resources and morale of the Soviet socialist system. With more than 15,000 Soviet military personnel dead, the USSR eventually withdrew their forces in 1989 and admitted to a humiliating defeat. It was payback for Vietnam...courtesy of Ronald Reagan.
During the 1980s the Polish Solidarity labor movement received support from the CIA (courtesy of Ronald Reagan) and eventually became strong enough to challenge Poland's authoritarian socialist government (courtesy of Ronald Reagan). In 1989 Solidarity was legalized and allowed to participate in elections which sparked off a succession of peaceful anti-communist counter-revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe...courtesy of Ronald Reagan.
Take the fact that communism drives any country broke, add an arms build up (courtesy of Ronald Reagan) as well as a second arms race in space (courtesy of Ronald Reagan), add a Vietnam-like quagmire (courtesy of Ronald Reagan), and then sprinkle liberally with socio-political upheaval (courtesy of Ronald Reagan). It was more than the Soviet system could take. At it was all...
courtesy of Ronald Reagan.
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Originally posted by Skywalken:
Reagan dramatically increased America's covert involvement funding Afghan resistance fighters against the commies and the whole thing became a CIA job. The ten year war exhausted the resources and morale of the Soviet socialist system. With more than 15,000 Soviet military personnel dead, the USSR eventually withdrew their forces in 1989 and admitted to a humiliating defeat. It was payback for Vietnam...courtesy of Ronald Reagan.
courtesy of Ronald Reagan.
My gawd, I wonder if you even realize the implications of this paragraph. Do you get even a glimmer that you are admitting to the world that the US armed, trained, supported in any way it could, the people who were eventually behind 9/11?
...courtesy of Ronald Reagan.
Anyway, that's what I think...
MT
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Originally posted by MedfordTim:
My gawd, I wonder if you even realize the implications of this paragraph. Do you get even a glimmer that you are admitting to the world that the US armed, trained, supported in any way it could, the people who were eventually behind 9/11?
That's one of the biggest propaganda screeds that the Taliban has put out...they defeated the Soviets.
Outright bullshit!
It was people like Ahmed Shah Massoud who defeated the Soviet Union. People who later ended up fighting the Taliban as part of the Northern Alliance.
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