Self admitted traitor?!?! Come again??

It was this little thing called Iran - Contra. Where good ole Ronnie Reagan got in bed with terrorists, good ole Iran who helped Ronnie boy get elected, but that is another story, drug smuggling, murder, stealling U.S. Tax dollars and much more. Of course good ole Ronnie had already sought money from congress and congress said - hands off Ronnie no nation building or over throwing governments. Good ole Ronnie got cought, Remember the other famous Republican traitor, Ollie North who now has his own show on CNN. Well good ole Ronnie got on national television, admitted his crimes and begged for forgiveness, I guess it worked, Ronnie Reagan was always a good actor.

Well you finally admitted it, you cannot think. Some of us have known that for a while.

Or perhaps it is that you are just too young and do not recall much about what happened before Reagan was President. The fact that unemployment was creeping ever closer to double digits, as was inflation, not to mention the fact that a majority of people believed that the next five years were going to be worse than the previous five years.

One man, deemed by many to be an amiable dunce, disproved all that. While Carter and his liberal cohorts were talking about restraints, Reagan was saying lets go. Like it or not, interest rates went down, unemployment fell, inflation fell and suddenly people actually beleived that our best days were still ahead. The were no waiting in line to get gas, no President lecturing us about restrain and our crisis of confidence. Instead we said We Number 1 and have not looked back since.

The 1970's brought us 8 tracks and cassette tapes, the next generation of music from LPs. Today we have CDs and MP3s. 20 years to develop the new generation of music compared to the near 50 to come up with 8 tracks and cassettes.

dmk

What happens when they find one of Mitt Romney's other wives?

You have a strange definition of "traitor". President Reagan did not "get in bed with terrorists". He was in a cold war with Communism. Cuba and the Soviet Union were propping up the Communist Sandinista regeme in Nicaragua. We were supporting the freedom fighters called the Contra rebels. They needed our help, but the Democrat controlled Congress cut off the funds. Was it right to raise money for these freedom fighters by selling ams to Iran? Probably not. Some times when people say "we have to do something" we do the wrong thing. This does not make President Reagan a traitor, only ill-advised. Colonel Oliver North was only guilty of assisting in the effort of helping our Ally. BTW Oliver North's TV show is on Fox News Channel, not CNN. It was unconscionable of the Congress to abandon our Ally.

Wow, what a pure line of bs. If your idea of 'freedom fighting' is regularly sweeping through villages and massacring innocent people en masse (including children), rape, torture, kidnapping, assassinations (of health care workers), and literally burning down the villages of innocent people; then yes, the Contras were 'freedom fighters'; and so is Al-Qaeda then. The Contras were just a part of the US' history of propping up terrorist organizations, rightist dictators, and inevitably partaking in terrorism itself in Latin America. You accuse the Soviets for being 'imperialist', and yet the United States attempted to consolidate it's hegemony in the Americas (where left politics was democratically popular and yet suppressed by the US) by some of the worst brutalities known; and Ronald Reagan was at the forefront of all this. They knew the 'tactics' being implemented by the Contras; but they didn't care.

Reagan was a 'has been' film star - more interested in his own self agrandisment than in running the country.

Kennedy - was an immoral character who brought the world as near to WW3 as it ever needs to get.

Hilary Clinton is just out to get her own back for Bill and Monica.

and Bush is an inarticulate halfwit.

So - who ever you vote for has to be an improvement !

Ronald Reagan apologized on National Television for being a traitor. You are exactly the type of people the Republican Party looks for.

THe Contras were bloodthirsty animals. THey were by NO MEANS freedom fighters. They attacked civilian targets, killed innocent bystanders, and acted against the popular government. As such, they crippled the nation's previously booming economy and ruined life in Nicaragua. By today's standards, they were definitely terrorists. The only reason we liked them was because they were fighting against a leftist government.

I was born in 1984, so I couldn't watch it. Could you please post a link to prove your points..?