Reagan's Dead - Page 4

On June 05 2004 20:47 STIMEY d okgm fish wrote:


would u say the same thing on the day hitler died?

On June 05 2004 20:58 Servolisk wrote:
This isn't his funeral, and all of us are about as distant from him as possible.. so no need to hold back opinions.

On June 05 2004 20:53 STIMEY d okgm fish wrote:


we didnt give chemicals to saddam to kill the kurds either and we didnt give money and training to bin laden to kill americans. but that doesnt mean that the decisions ultimately proved irresponsible or that there was no way for us to know better before doing those things -- there might have been, or there might not have been, and that is the issue: not whether or not we intended them to do those things, but whether we could have known they might in the first place.

On June 05 2004 20:53 tiffany wrote:
harding = worst president ever

On June 05 2004 20:34 NuclearAntelope wrote:

you must be a true economic genius to intertwine unemployment with sex.

On June 05 2004 21:07 Pob wrote:


it means they made the figures look better than they really are , unemployment figures never count hardcore unemployed and many other minority groups , eg they have to have a seperate section for 'youth unemployment' because if they added youth and normal unemployment the total figure would skyrocket leading to discouraged voters , ditto hardcore unemployed and other minority groups so if you think that is that REAL unemployment rate of the USA you are a fool

On June 05 2004 20:47 STIMEY d okgm fish wrote:


would u say the same thing on the day hitler died?

On June 05 2004 21:18 Arbiter[frolix] wrote:




My comment "Perhaps only those who approved of Reagan should post?" was intended as a wry statement in response to Excal. Plainly, I think criticism of Reagan is perfectly justified and not inappropriate in a thread such as this.

If it weren't for the Contras, do you think there would have been an election? Or Democracy in Nicaragua?

Maybe in the future, but not on the day he died. =[

On June 05 2004 21:26 Arbiter[frolix] wrote:


There were elections in Nicaragua. The Sandanistas won. Independent observers validated the result and said the rule of the Sandanista government was legitimate. Several years later, in accordance with their stated commitment to democratic government, the Sandanistas lost a second election and left power peacefully.

Nicaragua under the Sandanistas was vastly more democratic than a significant number of other regimes being supported by the Reagan administration, such as Saddam Hussein's for instance. The idea that Nicaragua needed to be subjected to a vicious assault by a proxy army in order to restore democracy does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny.

On June 05 2004 18:40 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Excal, if you'd write/find a bio of him we'd get both extremes and thus might be able to find a middle way (the non fanatics in here :D)

On June 05 2004 21:32 EAGER-beaver wrote:
I can't stand the way the media is idolizing this guy. Hello? Did everyone in America just get a lobotomy? To be blunt, this guy was a huge fuck up, at almost everything. I whatched this one gut churning interview with one of his "close friends" on ABC, who kept going on and on about his wonderful family life. But Reagan got divorced, and his kids hate him, so where the fuck is abc getting this shit? To add to the heaps of media diahrea they kept going on, and on, and on, about surviving a "terrorist attack". Call me crazy, but I thought that was an assasination attempt. Do they expect the public to sympathize for this bastard because they used the word terrorist? What the ass licking media has refused to point out is his long list of fuck ups, which I'm too drunk post right now. Google ronald, and read about his glorious military endevours in other countries. Only Bush tops this guy.

Good riddance Reagan, you won't be able to slime your way into heaven this time.

On June 05 2004 21:02 Countdown wrote:
um yeah, i can't read that.