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To: tejek who wrote (313846)	12/4/2006 1:49:01 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576098

"Until I started posting here, I had never heard that Reagan was responsible for the demise of the Soviet Union." Of course you didn't your liberal teachers hated reagan and would never say a positive thing about him. See how you were brainwashed, the same way they told you the wonderful North NEVER had slaves only the evil South did.

To: tejek who wrote (313846)	12/4/2006 2:05:43 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576098

"Part of the problem is that these idiots really believe Reagan brought down the Soviets." When he started supplying weapons, specifically the Stingers, to Afghanistan, it helped push them over the edge. But, at most, that only affected timing. It was hard to maintain an empire when subject regions like Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia had a higher standard of living than even Moscow.

To: tejek who wrote (313846)	12/4/2006 4:24:30 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576098

"It helped lead them to think that force does the trick." Ronnie Raygun really didn't use any force anywhere. He withdrew from Lebanon. HIS big "invasion" was Grenada! He traded arms for hostages in Iran, and provided the Contras with guns and the Afghanis with stinger missiles to shoot down Soviet helicopters. He may have contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union by getting them to believe his ridiculous Star Wars program had a chance of success. I'd say the neocons took the wrong lesson from Raygun, if they thought force was the ticket. Raygun probably learned that wasn't a winner in the B war movies he played in. The chimp Nero couldn't even match THAT level of "experience".