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Reagan as a very effective president when it comes to foreign policy and there
are other examples where this is true but not in the Lebanon case.I
would also say that both republicans and democrats share in the blame for the
bombings that happened on Sept 11, 2001 as even though a lot of the policies in
place were carry overs from the Clinton years, it happened under W. Bush's
watch. But in fairness to both parties, I doubt anyone ever thought that
hijackers would use planes as weapons of mass destruction. This is something
that had no historical background to foresee it happening.By the way
folks, I am a lifelong democrat who has not voted for my party's nominee since
1992 and I am not voting for Kerry this year for reasons I don't want to go
into. I will likely vote third party as I did in both 1996 and 2000.|
|9/6/04 10:00:08 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Have been
sleeping off and on tonight, a little restless but I am up again for a little
while. I would like to add one more example of a failure that the
republicans don't like to talk about when it comes to Reagan. My point in doing
so is you can't just point out democratic failures while igonoring republican
failures as if republcans are always the knights in shining armor while the
democrats are always screwing things up as this is not true as both groups can
at times screw things up. Again if Carter had done this, the conservatives
would have never let anyone forget it but they are largely silent about Reagan
doing it.Under Reagan's watch, nine people were held hostage in the
middle east for over three years, longer than the sixty or so that were held in
Iran under Carter. Reagan's response to get some of them out was to funnel
weapons sales to Iran through Isreal with some of the funds illegally going to
the Contra rebels in Niacragua when the Contras had been cut off of aid by the
congress. This was a deal that was in fact an arms for hostages exchange with a
country hostile to the United States.True as I said in my last post,
Reagan can take credit for other foreign policy successes but not everthing he
did worked. Things like telling Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall, whcih
actually happened a few years later under H.W. Bush. Reagan can also take
credit for outspending the Soviet Union in an out of control arms race, a
questionable tactic that ran up huge budget shortfalls but was effective in
contributing to the fall of the Soviet empire because the Soviets couldn't keep
up and it ended up desroying the Soviet economy but very well could have
destroyed ours as well.In closing, I would like to remind people again
that while the failed mission to rescue the Iran hostages ordered by President
Jimmy Carter killed nine U.S. servicemen was a fiasco that everyone remembers,
about 240 servicemen died in Reagan's failed mission in Lebanon from a suicide
bomber. A misson I might add was under the direction of the U.N. and was for
the purpose of escorting the PLO out of Lebanon after repeated skirmishes with
Isreal, something a lot of republicans complain about, following the orders of
the U.N., yet Reagan did exactly that and no one seems to remember it happened.
But everyone remembers Carter's failed rescue attempt just like it was
yesterday. Last I heard, 240 troops being killed was more than 9 being killed.
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|9/6/04 10:30:50 AM|Angelo|dc||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Kent: I've voted for
Democrats and Republicans for various offices---though admittedly, I'm right of
center and tend to vote Republican more often in national elections. I did NOT
vote for President Bush in 2000, but fully expect to cast a vote for him this
go-round. I will stop short of saying he's done a perfect job. In fact, there
are a lot of aspects to his PRESIDENCY that I can challenge, however, and I hope
you understand the distinction, his LEADERSHIP I will not question. I didn't
see this quality in him prior to the 2000 election, but in the past four years,
the guy has surprised me with his ability to lead. Right now, I think that's
what we need. We DON'T need a pseudo intellectualPresident at this time,
who will try social engineering and redistribution of wealth, as well as
"cooperation" (aka tuck tail and cower) with the U.N. and "allies" who have been