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> > Killer, Coward, Con-Man: Good Riddance Gipper
> >
> > --More proof that only the good die young.
> >
> > Greg Palast, June 6, 2004
> >
> > http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=336&row=0
> >
> > You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead.
> > But in this case, someone's got to.
> >
> > Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.
> >
> > In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua
> > named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except
> > for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.
> >
> > People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald
> > Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo
> > on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government
>
> These united States is not the only place one can get medicine. I'm
> surprised the peaceful, benevolent Soviet Union, or Cuba, with their
> legendary universal health care system, wasn't able to supply the
> necessary medicines to the peaceful, benevolent Sandinista government
> of Nicaragua.
>
> > that the people there had elected.
>
> Lie. Prior to 1990, the Sandinistas never won a free and fair election
> in Nicaragua. The only "opposition" candidates were those hand-picked
> by the Sandinistas, meaning that there were no popular candidates, no
> candidates anyone ever heard of before, and certainly no non-socialist
> candidates.
>
> > Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled
> > up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while
> > they buried the mother of three.
> >
> > And when Hezbollah terrorists struck and murdered hundreds of American
> > marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior ran away like a
> > whipped dog . then turned around and invaded Grenada. That little Club
> > Med war was a murderous PR stunt so Ronnie could hold parades for
> > gunning down Cubans building an airport.
>
> Grenada was invaded because butcherous communists - Greg Palast's
> heroes - seized power and established a Soviet puppet state, backed
> by millions of dollars worth of military equipment from the USSR.
>
> This article by Tristan Abbey elaborates:
>
> Grenada: Reckless Fury?
> By Tristan Abbey
>
> http://amh.freehosting.net/grenada.html
>
> Many of those who criticize the Bush administration's policy of pre-
> emptive regime change assert that the invasion of Iraq was not the
> first time the United States overthrew a recognized foreign government.
> Some contend that the 1983 invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation
> Urgent Fury, is an example of American unilateralism Reagan-style. To
> the contrary, the historical record demonstrates that the operation
> amounted to a well-reasoned strategic move in what former CIA director
> Robert Gates called in his memoirs "the most dangerous year."
>
> One of the more prevalent beliefs is that President Reagan launched
> Urgent Fury on October 25 as a means to save face following the October
> 23 bombing of U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon. This theory goes further,
> positing that a relief force destined for Beirut changed course to
> Grenada following the barracks bombing. While anger over this attack
> probably influenced the decision to give the final go-ahead, and American
> prestige reasserted itself following victory, a chronological examination
> reveals that there must have been something more to motive than wounded
> pride. According to an unclassified Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) report,
> "contingency planning for noncombatant evacuation" began on October
> 12.[1] The JCS also issued a warning order on October 19, preparing for
> "the worst scenario." The naval force originally headed to Lebanon, in
> fact, did change course to Grenada, but did so days before October 23.
> In addition, the Carter administration had expressed "concern about the
> growing Cuban presence" on Grenada as early as May 1979.[2]
>
> In truth, there was a substantial international communist presence on
> Grenada, placing that island within the Soviet sphere of influence well
> before October 1983. The USSR had been pouring millions of dollars worth
> of military equipment onto the island. Cuba assisted with construction
> of an airport. Libya, North Korea, Czechoslovakia, and North Vietnam were
> also tied through aid.[3] Expansion of the state militia produced further
> anxiety. In the years immediately prior to the Reagan administration, the
> USSR and Cuba had been exporting revolution throughout the world, Grenada
> being only one front. By 1983, the White House was eager to turn the tide.
>
> A chain of events led to broad multilateral support for an invasion.
> Marxist leader Maurice Bishop was toppled in a coup on October 12 and
> killed the following week in a massacre. According to Scott Palter,
> chairman of the board of advisors at Project Wise Men, "the trigger [of
> Urgent Fury] was the coup and following chaos." On October 21, the
> Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) requested American
> intervention, and shortly thereafter imposed sanctions on Grenada. In
> addition, forces from Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia,
> St. Vincent, and Jamaica participated in the invasion.[4] Needless to say,
> more nations cooperated in Operation Urgent Fury than did in Operation
> Overlord.
>
> While the specific planning of Urgent Fury has often been criticized as
> confusing and dangerous, those who bemoan the decision itself have little
> foundation. The operation was not a reaction to an unrelated event in
> Lebanon; rather, the West's superpower acted within an international
> effort to restore peace and prevent communist expansion in what was by
> necessity a short (and admittedly convenient) timeframe.
>
> [1] Cole, Ronald H. Operation Urgent Fury: The Planning and Execution of
> Joint Operations in Grenada 12 October - 2 November 1983. Joint History
> Office, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1997.
>
> [2] Gates, Robert M. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of
> Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War. New York, NY: Touchstone,
> 1997. p. 126
>
> [3] Adkin, Mark. Urgent Fury: The Battle for Grenada: The Truth Behind the
> Largest U.S. Military Operation Since Vietnam. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington
> Books, 1989.
>
> [4] Ibid.
>
> > I remember Nancy, a skull and crossbones prancing around in designer
> > dresses, some of the "gifts" that flowed to the Reagans -- from hats
> > to million-dollar homes -- from cronies well compensated with government
> > loot. It used to be called bribery.
> >
> > And all the while, Grandpa grinned, the grandfather who bleated on
> > about "family values" but didn't bother to see his own grandchildren.
> >
> > The New York Times today, in its canned obit, wrote that Reagan
> > projected, "faith in small town America" and "old-time values."
> > "Values" my ass. It was union busting and a declaration of war on
> > the poor and anyone who couldn't buy designer dresses.
>
> Apparently, a "declaration of war on the poor" means stealing less
> money from people, cutting back on income redistribution in the form
> of welfare, social "services", etc., and reducing the regulatory
> chains around the necks of business below the point of crushing
> their throats.
>
> Matter of fact, commies like Greg Palast believe anything short of
> imposing socialism and forced collectivization with the associated
> terror and murder is declaring "war on the poor".
>
> > It was the New Meanness, bringing starvation back to America so that
> > every millionaire could get another million.
>
> As usual, an undocumented, unsubstantiated lie.
>
> > "Small town" values? From the movie star of the Pacific Palisades, the
> > Malibu mogul? I want to throw up.
> >
> > And all the while, in the White House basement, as his brain boiled
> > away, his last conscious act was to condone a coup d'etat against our
> > elected Congress. Reagan's Defense Secretary Casper the Ghost Weinberger
> > with the crazed Colonel, Ollie North, plotted to give guns to the
Monster
> > of the Mideast, Ayatolla Khomeini.
> >
> > Reagan's boys called Jimmy Carter a weanie and a wuss although Carter
> > wouldn't give an inch to the Ayatolla.
>
> Carter did however, give miles to the USSR. That's probably why "Reagan's
> boys" referred to him as "a weanie and a wuss". Iran was a minor concern,
> and was no real threat to the US.
>
> > Reagan, with that film-fantasy tough-guy con in front of cameras, went
> > begging like a coward cockroach to Khomeini pleading on bended knee for
> > the release of our hostages.
> >
> > Ollie North flew into Iran with a birthday cake for the maniac mullah
> > -- no kidding -- in the shape of a key. The key to Ronnie's heart.
> >
> > Then the Reagan roaches mixed their cowardice with crime: taking cash
> > from the hostage-takers to buy guns for the "contras" - the drug-runners
> > of Nicaragua posing as freedom fighters.
>
> And indeed they were freedom fighters; they were fighting against
> Greg Palast's murderous, racist Sandinista friends.
>
> It's evident who the Nicaraguan people preferred. After 1990, the
> Sandinistas only managed to get presidential votes - not enough to
> win, of course - only when they ran on a moderate left wing platform,
> distancing themselves from their 1980s socialism.
>
> > I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the
> > bullhorn, "The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan,
> > hereby orders this demonstration to disperse" . and then came the
> > teargas and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin
> > from the Gipper.
> >
> > In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard
> > their kids from attack from Reagan's Contra terrorists. The farmers
> > weren't even Sandinistas, those 'Commies'
>
> ...received massive funding and military aid, including arms and
> Soviet troops, and "advisors" from Cuba who ran the Sandinistas
> secret police and exercised most power in the country.
>
> > that our cracked-brained President told us were 'only a 48-hour drive
> > from Texas.' What the hell would they want with Texas, anyway?
> >
> > Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were Ronnie's targets.
>
> The Sandinistas were "Ronnie's targets".
>
> > In the deserted darkness of Chaguitillo, a TV blared. Weirdly, it was
> > that third-rate gangster movie, "Brother Rat." Starring Ronald Reagan.
> >
> > Well, my friends, you can rest easier tonight: the Rat is dead.
> >
> > Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance.
> >
> > --Greg Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Best
> > Democracy Money Can Buy."
>
> Greg Palast is lying, disreputable, evil, totalitarian pinko scum.
>
> Matter of fact, he is far below scum. Calling him scum is an insult
> to scum.
>
> **** him.
>
> --
> Andrew Manore
>
>
>