Wednesday, January 26, 2005

REAGAN REDO PART 3

This is a continuation of the process of trying to cleanse and inform people of things they were not old enough to know about or things which have been obscured by revisionists or by the neglect of fact checkers.
Anyway, back to fun.
Ronald Reagan's evil extended to foreign policy as well, through the intimidation of our "allies" to take newer for advanced nuclear weapons, to "scare" the Soviet Union as well as doing business with our enemies, namely the Iranian government. It is a truth that Reagan's people made a deal with the Iranians that would keep the hostages from being released until Reagan took the office of the Presidency, just to keep any sort of victory of the hostages release to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was a lousy President, but without the intervention of Reagan loyalists. the hostages would have been released sooner. It was at this same time that they had the mistaken impression that they had found some moderate Iranians that we would be able to deal with. This would ultimately lead to the guns for hostages situation as well as the peace overtures which were seen by these "moderate" Iranians as a weakness they would be able to exploit in their own time.
The German allies saw the deployment of the Pershing missile for what it was; i.e. a direct threat to the killer weight of the Soviet missiles through the knowledge that while the Soviet missiles had a greater throw weight, the Pershings were faster, with much more accuracy, thereby creating an offensive threat to the Soviets.
The Reaganites will say that this was the final straw that broke the camel's back, but the reality is that we did outspend and out produce the Soviets in every way shape and form, until it suffocated their country under the weight of debt. We also were suffocated, but because we are the winners, we were able to modify thoughts and beliefs about what happened to make everyone think that we won and all was well with the world. It is the old axiom that" to the winner goes the spoils, as well the victor writes the history". We won, we write the history. This is true in our cold and sometimes warm war with the Soviet Union as well as Reagan's victory over his political enemies, who were either outspent or outwitted by Reagan and his cronies.
During his early first term while he and his "right" thinking followers were doing deals with the "moderate" Iranians, he was also following a program of cleansing Nicaragua of the "communistas". This would lead to trouble for people from Richard Secord to Oliver North, his bosses, and their bosses, but Ronny "raygun" Reagan would come out pretty much unsullied, with his "good gosh" country boy image intact. It is amazing that someone, anyone. with even the vaguest hint of intelligence could not see who was in charge and what the implicates of it were.
This duplicity was common currency of the Reagan administration throughout the entire time he was in office, and people such as Oliver North would have the audacity to go to Congress under investigation and have the gall to lecture them about what their jobs were and why they were wrong and he and his bosses were right. This was traitorous behavior for a Lt. Colonel, let alone one who had his eyes covered to the wrong doing and death that came with his view of the law. This would bring soldiers under fire and death in Central and South America, some let in on the little "secret" war and some just in the way. This would lead to Congress being alerted to secret funds, as well as secret bases in the southwest which were under control of the administration, to use for delivery of weapons, bombs, etc.,. and when caught they obfuscated and changed reality to match what they wanted Congress and the public to know.
You know what I realized today while I spoke with my friend Brad? There are so many people who were too young or who were misinformed through the public school system on the truth of this "recent" history that this will take awhile to get through. I shall turn this into a daily diatribe inregard the memory of a "beloved" man, but this will be visited often, while also giving time to the matters of today that also need truth shined upon it.
In a quick unrelated note. A bon voyage to Johnny Carson a good, shy midwesterner who did a good job and did not crave the limelight like those who pretend to follow his lead do! Johnny, enjoy the peace between the lives, and Good night for now!
Daniel Carvel Kepler

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