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Thirty years ago today Reagan

 
 
Baldimo
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 03:05 pm
@edgarblythe,
It's apples and oranges. I guess 30 years of tech advancement mean nothing to you. During Benghazi we had a live feed from a drone showing what was going on. 8 hours of attacks and a few denials for help. Once again they are nothing a like.

Are you going to make an excuse for, "If you like your insurance company then you can keep it." as well? In your eyes, Obama has done nothing but not know about scandels at the same time as we did. How many times have we hard this Edgar? "I didn't know about it until I heard about it in the news."
Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 03:12 pm
@Baldimo,
Baldimo wrote:

It's apples and oranges. I guess 30 years of tech advancement mean nothing to you. During Benghazi we had a live feed from a drone showing what was going on. 8 hours of attacks and a few denials for help. Once again they are nothing a like.

Are you going to make an excuse for, "If you like your insurance company then you can keep it." as well? In your eyes, Obama has done nothing but not know about scandels at the same time as we did. How many times have we hard this Edgar? "I didn't know about it until I heard about it in the news."


We certainly never got any of that from Reagan...right????????

Baldimo
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 03:15 pm
@Frank Apisa,
I guess if you can't accept the facts, distract to when the GOP was in the WH. It always seems to work for you guys doesn't it?
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 04:14 pm
@Baldimo,
You are focusing only on Benghazi and Reagan's Beirut debacle and ignoring everything before and in between, just so you can hold the current president's feet to the fire, from ideological hatred.
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 04:22 pm
@Baldimo,
Baldimo wrote:

I guess if you can't accept the facts, distract to when the GOP was in the WH. It always seems to work for you guys doesn't it?


What "facts" am unwilling to accept?

What group are you lumping me with?

I can assure you I am always willing to accept "facts"...and I belong to no "group" or "group of guys" in this forum. (Unless you mean people who are not willing to accept some of the things you say as absolute truth...and your interpretations as without blemish.)

Baldimo
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 04:39 pm
@Frank Apisa,
The fact that 30 years of technology advancement makes a difference in response to terrorists attacks.

Obama fucked up in Benghazi and we are only now getting to the truth. Did you catch the 60min piece recently? Those are facts.
RABEL222
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 04:41 pm
@coldjoint,
Sad Come on coldj, give me a break. I took Edgar to task for badmouthing Saint Ronny. Why are you attacking me? Sad
Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 04:55 pm
@Baldimo,
Baldimo wrote:

The fact that 30 years of technology advancement makes a difference in response to terrorists attacks.


What makes you think I do not accept this fact? Are you just making stuff up?

Quote:

Obama fucked up in Benghazi and we are only now getting to the truth. Did you catch the 60min piece recently? Those are facts.


The first paragraph was a "fact."

The rest of this is conjecture...at best.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 05:10 pm
@RABEL222,
I can always count on rabel to hold me to account.
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JTT
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 09:25 pm
@Frank Apisa,
Quote:
I can assure you I am always willing to accept "facts"


Hilarious, Frank, absolutely hilarious!

Quote:
...and I belong to no "group" or "group of guys" in this forum.


Yes, you most certainly do.
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JTT
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 09:38 pm
Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Nixon, Bush, Obama, it doesn't matter who is in office.

Quote:
Why Terrorists Hate America
by William Blum


Why do terrorists hate America enough to give up their lives in order to deal the country such mortal blows? Of course it,s not America the terrorists hate; it,s American foreign policy. It,s what the United States has done to the world in the past half century -- all the violence, the bombings, the depleted uranium, the cluster bombs, the assassinations, the promotion of torture, the overthrow of governments, and more. The terrorists -- whatever else they might be -- are also rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
Most Americans find it difficult in the extreme to accept the proposition that terrorist acts against the United States can be viewed as revenge for Washington,s policies abroad. They believe that the US is targeted because of its freedom, its democracy, its modernity, its wealth, or just being part of the West.
But government officials know better. A Department of Defense study in 1997 concluded that: "Historical data show a strong correlation between US involvement in international situations and an increase in terrorist attacks against the United States." Former president Jimmy Carter, some years after he left the White House, was unambiguous in his concordance with such a sentiment: "We sent Marines into Lebanon and you only have to go to Lebanon, to Syria or to Jordan to witness first-hand the intense hatred among many people for the United States because we bombed and shelled and unmercifully killed totally innocent villagers -- women and children and farmers and housewives -- in those villages around Beirut. ... As a result of that ... we became kind of a Satan in the minds of those who are deeply resentful."
The terrorists responsible for the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 sent a letter to the New York Times which stated, in part: "We declare our responsibility for the explosion on the mentioned building. This action was done in response for the American political, economical, and military support to Israel the state of terrorism and to the rest of the dictator countries in the region."
For more than four months the most powerful nation in history rained down a daily storm of missiles upon one of the poorest and most backward people in the world. Eventually, this question pressed itself onto the world,s stage: Who killed more innocent, defenseless people? The terrorists in the United States on September 11 with their flying bombs? Or the Americans in Afghanistan with their AGM-86D cruise missiles, their AGM-130 missiles, their 15,000 pound "daisy cutter" bombs, their depleted uranium, and their cluster bombs? By year's end, the count of the terrorists, victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania stood at about 3,000. The total count of civilian dead in Afghanistan was essentially ignored by American officials and just about everyone else, but a painstaking compilation of numerous individual reports from the domestic and international media, aid agencies, and the United Nations, by an American professor -- hunting down the many separate incidents of 100-plus counts of the dead, the scores of dead, the dozens, and the smaller numbers -- arrived at considerably more than 3,500 through early December, and still counting.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/WhyTerroristsHateAmer.html
coldjoint
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 10:01 pm
@JTT,
How many times you going to post that garbage?
JTT
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 10:03 pm
@coldjoint,
You do have a problem with the truth, cp. Delusion and lying is not a healthy way to live.
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JTT
 
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Reply Wed 30 Oct, 2013 10:16 pm
Reagan, a major US war criminal and arch-terrorist was never held to account for any of the myriad crimes he committed while in office.

Thirty years ago today, Reagan was orchestrating his evil upon the people of Nicaragua.

Quote:
Nicaragua 1981-1990
Destabilization in slow motion
excerpted from the book
Killing Hope
by William Blum


*****
When the American military forces left Nicaragua for the last time, in 1933, they left behind a souvenir by which the Nicaraguan people could remember them: the National Guard, placed under the direction of one Anastasio Somoza ... Three years later, Somoza took over the presidency and with the indispensable help of the National Guard established a family dynasty which would rule over Nicaragua, much like a private estate, for the next 43 years. While the Guardsmen, consistently maintained by the United States, passed their time on martial law, rape, torture, murder of the opposition, and massacres of peasants, as well as less violent pursuits such as robbery, extortion, contraband, running brothels and other government functions, the Somoza clan laid claim to the lion's share of Nicaragua's land and businesses. When Anastasio Somoza II was overthrown by the Sandinistas in July 1979, he fled into exile leaving behind a country in which two-thirds of the population earned less than $300 a year. Upon his arrival in Miami, Somoza admitted to being worth $100 million. A US intelligence report, however, placed it at $900 million.
It was fortunate for the new Nicaraguan leaders that they came to power while Jimmy Carter sat in the White House. It gave them a year and a half of relative breathing space to take the first steps in their planned reconstruction of an impoverished society before the relentless hostility of the Reagan administration descended upon them; which is not to say that Carter welcomed the Sandinista victory.
In 1978, with Somoza nearing collapse, Carter authorized covert CIA support for the press and labor unions in Nicaragua in an attempt to create a "moderate" alternative to the Sandinistas. Towards the same end, American diplomats were conferring with non-leftist Nicaraguan opponents of Somoza. Washington's idea of "moderate", according to a group of prominent Nicaraguans who walked out on the discussions, was the inclusion of Somoza's political party in the future government and "leaving practically intact the corrupt structure of the somocista apparatus", including the National Guard, albeit in some reorganized form. Indeed, at this same time, the head of the US Southern Command (Latin America), Lt. General Dennis McAuliffe, was telling Somoza that, although he had to abdicate, the United States had "no intention of permitting a settlement which would lead to the destruction of the National Guard". This was a notion remarkably insensitive to the deep loathing for the Guard felt by the great majority of the Nicaraguan people.
*****
After the Sandinistas took power, Carter authorized the CIA to provide financial and other support to their opponents. At the same time, Washington pressured the Sandinistas to include certain men in the new government. Although these tactics failed, the Carter administration did not refuse to give aid to Nicaragua. Ronald Reagan was later to point to this and ask: "Can anybody doubt the generosity and good faith of the American people?" What the president failed to explain was:
a) Almost all of the aid had gone to non-governmental agencies and to the private sector, including the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the long-time CIA front.
b) The primary and expressed motivation for the aid was to strengthen the hands of the so-called moderate opposition and undercut the influence of socialist countries in Nicaragua .
c) All military aid was withheld despite repeated pleas from the Nicaraguan government about its need and right to such help-the defeated National Guardsmen and other Supporters of Somoza had not, after all, disappeared; they had regrouped as the "contras" and maintained primacy in the leadership of this force from then on.
In January 1981, Ronald Reagan took office under a Republican platform which asserted that it "deplores the Marxist Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua". The president moved quickly to cut off virtually all forms of assistance to the Sandinistas, the opening salvos of his war against their revolution. The American whale, yet again, felt threatened by a minnow in the Caribbean.
Among the many measures undertaken: Nicaragua was excluded from US government programs which promote American investment and trade; sugar imports from Nicaragua were slashed by 90 percent; and, without excessive subtlety but with notable success, Washington pressured the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, and the European Common Market to withhold loans to Nicaragua. The director of the IDB, Mr. Kevin O'Sullivan, later revealed that in 1983 the US had opposed a loan to aid Nicaraguan fishermen on the grounds that the country did not have adequate fuel for their boats. A week later, O'Sullivan pointed out, "saboteurs blew up a major Nicaraguan fuel depot in the port of Corinto", an act described by an American intelligence source as 'totally a CIA operation''.

READ ON AS I KNOW YOU ALL WILL, AT,

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Nicaragua_KH.html

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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 31 Oct, 2013 10:30 am
@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:

Then he bombed the **** out of Ghadafis house.

How can you see this as a success? Rolling Eyes He missed his intended target and he ended up just merely killing "collateral damage." Epic failure is what that just was. You don't get a win in your column if you end up missing the necessary three point shot at the end of the game. Rolling Eyes
Baldimo
 
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Reply Thu 31 Oct, 2013 10:36 am
@tsarstepan,
He missed Qaddafi, but took him out of the terrorism business for the next 20+ years.
coldjoint
 
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Reply Thu 31 Oct, 2013 10:43 am
@Baldimo,
It sure did.
coldjoint
 
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Reply Thu 31 Oct, 2013 10:46 am
@tsarstepan,
The fact it was even bought up is an insult to thinking people. To try and cover Obamas ass by a past mistake is desperation.



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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Thu 31 Oct, 2013 10:50 am
@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:

It sure did.


Yeah, like either of you guys know if he was out of business during those years!
coldjoint
 
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Reply Thu 31 Oct, 2013 10:54 am
@Frank Apisa,
What are you saying Frank? We cannot trust Islam?
 

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