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    Default Re: Reagan

    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    Indeed. Which should come to no surprise considering how thoroughly he steamrolled Mondale in 1984. Reagan got "results", good things happened on his watch. How many of these good things can be attributed to his actions is up for debate.
    It bothers me when people link the end of the communism directly to Reagan and his military spending. They act like he USSR was performing excellent until Reagan came along and kicked some commie ***.

    It also bothers me that his retreat from Lebanon and his sponsership of right wing death squads in Latin America is also overlooked. I could go on, but I'll stop here and agree that his PR machine was excellent while the actual man was far from it.

    Edit:

    While I disagree with a one or two, the rest I think are spot on:

    Last edited by Ice; 09-28-2010 at 21:43.



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