@Frank Apisa,
Quote:I, like many progressives of the time, voted for Reagan on his first run, because I was sorely disappointed in Carter and wanted to teach him a lesson.
Well, we succeeded. We taught him a lesson. America is STILL paying the price for that mistake.
That's certainly true, Frank, America is still paying a price for Reagan. But why is it always about America? Under Reagan, tens of thousands of innocent Nicaraguans were slaughtered. Reagan and his band of war criminals decimated a country that was coming around.
Quote:FATHER MIGUEL D'ESCOTO: First of all, let me start out by saying that, of course, Reagan is now dead.
And I, for one, would like to say only nice things about him.
I'm not insensitive to the feelings of many U.S. people mourning president Reagan, but as I pray that god in his infinite mercy and goodness forgive him for having been the butcher of my people, for having been responsible for the deaths of some 50,000 Nicaraguans, we cannot, we should not ever forget the crimes he committed in the name of what he falsely labeled freedom and democracy.
More perhaps than any other U.S. President, Reagan convinced many around the world that the U.S. is a fraud, a big lie.
Self-determination of peoples
Not only was it [US policy] not democratic, but in fact the greatest enemy of the right of self-determination of peoples.
Reagan, as you mentioned just a few minutes ago, was known as the great communicator, and I believe that that is true only if one believes that to be a great communicator means to be a good liar.
That he was for sure.
He could proclaim the biggest lies without even as much as blinking an eyelash.
Hearing him talk about how we were supposedly persecuting Jews and burning down non-existent synagogues, I was led to believe really, that Reagan was possessed by demons.
Frankly, I do believe Reagan at that time — as much as Bush today — was indeed possessed by the demons of manifest destiny.
Of course, as I say this, I'm quite aware that to the people of say for example, Project for a New American Century, that is counted as a big plus.
http://thewe.cc/weplanet/news/americas/us/ronald_reagan.html
Why is there never any measure of truth coming from any of you Americans? You know of these sordid events, you know of the murders, the rapes the torture and what do we get this same sentiment, even from Obama, "aww, America has suffered thru so much".