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Originally posted by Oerdin
It's amazing how the political right has been so successful white washing Reagan's crimes in Iran-Contra. The Republicans never had a great leader type of president the way the Democrats could point to FDR or Kennedy so they're trying to rehabilitate Reagan's image so that he can become "the great Republican president". The problem is Reagan really was a bumbling incompetant who made deals with the Iranian mullahs to keep the hostages longers (Reagan wanted the hostages to not be freed because it was a big election issue for him), he helped bloody murderers in Central America transport and sell drugs to the US (Reagan thought that was ok just as long as the murderers, er.. Rebels, kept killing communists when they weren't busy shooting old ladies and hanging journalist), illegally sold weapons to Iran, and generally was a terrible economic manager (massive deficits as far as the eye can see).
It's amazing how the political right has been so successful white washing Reagan's crimes in Iran-Contra. The Republicans never had a great leader type of president the way the Democrats could point to FDR or Kennedy so they're trying to rehabilitate Reagan's image so that he can become "the great Republican president". The problem is Reagan really was a bumbling incompetant who made deals with the Iranian mullahs to keep the hostages longers (Reagan wanted the hostages to not be freed because it was a big election issue for him), he helped bloody murderers in Central America transport and sell drugs to the US (Reagan thought that was ok just as long as the murderers, er.. Rebels, kept killing communists when they weren't busy shooting old ladies and hanging journalist), illegally sold weapons to Iran, and generally was a terrible economic manager (massive deficits as far as the eye can see).
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