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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (580841)	6/6/2004 2:51:32 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Weinberger: 'Reagan Helped Save the World' Former Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Sunday that it was Ronald Reagan's staunch anti-Communism and determination to rebuild the military that "literally redeemed the country and helped save the world." Weinberger recalled to WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg: "When [Reagan] made his Evil Empire speech - that the Soviet Union was an Evil Empire that had to be destroyed and they couldn't coexist with us - one diplomat complained to him, 'You have destroyed 20-years of patient diplomatic effort with that one speech.' " But the former President responded, according to his former defense chief, "Yes. And where did that 20-years worth of patient diplomatic effort get us - it got us a stronger Soviet Union and a weaker America." But Reagan was determined to change that, Weinberger said: "He was an enormous supporter of the military. And a very large number of people in his own administration opposed it and wanted money for their own purposes and for domestic [programs] instead of building up the military. "And yet he knew we had to do it and he went right ahead with it and he stayed with it during his whole eight years. And as a result we have this magnificent military capability that we have today." Weinberger said that Reagan's commitment to his principals changed the course of world history. "I think the strong anti-Communist struggle that he put up and his determination to win the Cold War, that was the thing that ended Communism and Communist domination of Russia and of Eastern Europe." "He quite literally redeemed the country and helped save the world." newsmax.com