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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (48743)	6/10/2004 1:02:06 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

<font color=blue>Fiction has its place -- especially at the time of one's passing. And so, the American airwaves glisten these days with tales about how it was Ronald Reagan who engineered the defeat of communism and the end of the Cold War. theglobeandmail.com It was Mikhail Gorbachev, who with a sweeping democratic revolution at home and one peace initiative after another abroad, backed the Gipper into a corner, leaving him little choice -- actors don't like to be upstaged -- but to concede there was a whole new world opening up over there. ... In the collapse of communism he deserves credit not as an instigator, but an abettor. Best Supporting Actor. </font> TP