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Like fighting "Evil Empires", you mean? By things like supporting the apartheid-regime in South Africa to stop "evil commies in Africa", or invading Grenada because they were friendly to Cuba? Or watch idly while the Guatemalan junta regime slaughtered 140,000 Mayas, mainly because said junta were hostile to socialist movements that were feared by the USA to symphatize with communists? Or best of all, start supplying Iraq with its first WMD's, and build up its armies, so to be able to eradictate the muslim revolutionaries in Iran. Heck, in '83, Reagan even sent Don Rumsfeld to Bagdhad to tie Saddam Hussein closer to the US, and escalate US support to the Iraqi war on Iran. The same year, the US entered in unofficial conversations with Iran to free American hostages in Lebanon. And guess what? At the same time, US warships were more or less randomly bombing Beirut back to the stone age. Anyhow, these conversations ended with the US supplying the same Iran they had Saddam fight, with weapons. The money from these sales went to Contras in Nicaragua - to fight more evil communists. As a side note, the very same Contras also got money from, with full knowledge of the CIA, dumping obscene amounts of crack in black ghettos inside the USA. As for mr. Reagans own view on black people, well, he initiated his election campaign in Neshoba, Missisipi, in 1980. Sixteen years earlier, three civil rights activists, two black and one white, were murdered here by the Ku Klux Klan. He was invited there by Trent Lott, a southern republican the Americans here should know. He was forced to resign in '02 after some... comments that could be percieves as aknowledging segregation. Reagan himself even tried in his first period to give extra tax breaks to private educational institutions practicing segregation in one form or another.
I was refraining from posting here, as my political statements are hardly ever popular, anywhere on the net, but these are all things Reagan did. And I dare say, he was _not_ a great man.
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