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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (125393)	6/1/2008 7:41:05 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

LIAR. Reagan did not win the Cold War. He didn't do a goddamn thing to defeat the Soviet Union. Not much anyway. The Soviets fell because of internal pressures, economnic severe problems, their loss in Afghanistan, liberal new leaders like Gorby, a freedom-loving young generation, the No Nukes movement, the bail-out offered by Germany, Carter's SALT talks and many other powerful forces, including outside religions and Lech Walesa. Anyone who credits Reagan with ending the Soviet union doesn't know what he's talking about or is a bald-faced liar. Yes, Reagan deserves some credit, but so do many including Carter. And remember when Reagan said "tear down this wall" the Soviet Union was already gone. It was a photo op, not anything that caused anything to happen. Reagan also did not give us a boom for more than the 3-4 years of deficit spending period he presided over followed by 7-8 recessionary years where we had to pay off his deficits including the outrageous S+L crisis bill. This is what happens with voodoo economics, a party for while followed by a hung hangover. Reagan also destroyed Carter's huge greeen energy program and thereby doomed us to be addicts and slaves of gasoline for decades to come. Reagan was a great charismatic personality buty his policies STUNK. And his statement that corporations not government should be trusted has led to the biggest wave of corruption ever in our history since the Hoover years which spawned the Great Depression.