> 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

**** regansitne Id'e **** on his grave
logan
"Andrew Manore" > wrote in message
...
> > 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
>
>
>

"Andrew Manore" > wrote in message
...
> > 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.

Where are these lies?

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>> Greg Palast is lying, disreputable, evil, totalitarian pinko scum.
>
> Where are these lies?

Re-read.

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> >> Greg Palast is lying, disreputable, evil, totalitarian pinko scum.
> >
> > Where are these lies?
>
> Re-read.

no, really, be a man and pick one out so we know which ones you're
referring to.

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In article >,
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> >> Greg Palast is lying, disreputable, evil, totalitarian pinko scum.
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> > Where are these lies?
>
> Re-read.
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> Andrew Manore

I've yet to find fault with Palast yet - please show me an example of
his "lies" ...

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If you pussies really loved him, you would tattoo Reagan's face on your
right
hand - or perhaps your forehead. Or how about just his name - you know in
red, white, and blue - bunting style? Imagine it. Everyone would then know
how deeply you loved Ronald Wilson Reagan. Or, hey - how
about just tattooing the number of letters in his first, last, and middle
names? 666

"Andrew Manore" > wrote in message
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| > Where are these lies?
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| Re-read.

If you pussies really loved him, you would tattoo Reagan's face on your
right
hand - or perhaps your forehead. Or how about just his name - you know in
red, white, and blue - bunting style? Imagine it. Everyone would then know
how deeply you loved Ronald Wilson Reagan. Or, hey - how
about just tattooing the number of letters in his first, last, and middle
names? 666