Re: A Reagan quote

From: quibbler (quibbler247_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: 10 Jun 2004 09:41:11 -0700

Scott Lowther <scottlowtherHATESSPAM@ix.netcomARGH.com> wrote in message news:<40C7B0E4.6087@ix.netcomARGH.com>...
> Ool wrote:
>
> > And by supporting the Soviets' enemies the Americans may have opened
> > the very Pandora's box that may be their own undoing today. Yester-
> > day's Mujaheddin = today's Taliban.
>
> Bull***. Yesterday's *US funded* Mujaheddin = yesterday's Northern
> Alliance = todays Afghani allies.

You're either a liar or an ignoramus, because Osama bin Laden
definitely got training and funds from the US. Hint: Osama
assassinated the leader of the Northern Alliance.

>
> Yesterday's allied Saddam we sold
> > all those chemical and biological weapons
>
> Sorry, that was the French and the Germans.

Not true, liar. We sold dozens of "crop spraying helicopters" which
we knew goddamn well saddam didn't need in his desert country. We
gave him billions in "agricultural loans" which we knew he was
diverting into arms. We sent bio-chem experts to saddam and even
allowed him to import deadly strains of weaponizable biological agents
in the early 1980's. The US also stonewalled UN investigation of
saddam's use of chemical weapons against the Iranians in the Al Faw
Peninsular campaign and elsewhere.

>
>
> > > > If it hadn't been for his
> > > > religious kookery and bizarre voodoo economics then we might have had a
> > > > lot more money for space exploration.
>
> You mean the *Soviets* would ahve had lots more money for space
> exploration, as they would still be around and menacing the world.

Gorbachev was trying to end the coldwar in 1985 and Reagan refused,
because he couldn't give up fantasies like Starwars and the trillions
of corporate welfare that he funnelled into the military industrial
complex. The soviets were not a threat, for the most part, except to
our own imperial interests. We were hardly being selfless in
defending western europe. We sought to dominate it, much like we did
with the rest of the world.