Ronald Reagan: Hero? or Villain?

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Which is something that Mr. Reagan failed to do when he felt like it.

It is up to the House of Representatives to take action by passing a Bill of Impeachment (which is an indictment and the beginning of a trial procedures which could end up by removing the sitting President from office). The House did no such thing.

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Similarly, she admits that Ronald Reagan initially was reluctant to get married again after his divorce from Jane Wyman and says she gradually persuaded him, but she reveals little about how she did so. She does, however, admit what has long been known--that the two announced their engagement in late February, 1952, were married 12 days later and that their daughter, Patti, was born "a bit precipitously" seven-and-a-half months after that. "Go ahead and count" is about all she says on the subject.

He is also our only president who relied heavily upon an astrologer for guidance.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/ar ... 22,00.html

And, the lout managed to convince a lot of people that he was a Christian, even though he never participated in worship services.

Huh... Then if Reagan was out of the loop with Iran/Contra, then I guess it's completely reasonable that Obama knew nothing about Fast & Furious.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America was a 1984 case of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in which the ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States and awarded reparations to Nicaragua. The ICJ held that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua's harbors. The United States refused to participate in the proceedings after the Court rejected its argument that the ICJ lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. The U.S. later blocked enforcement of the judgment by the United Nations Security Council and thereby prevented Nicaragua from obtaining any actual compensation. The Nicaraguan government finally withdrew the complaint from the court in September 1992 (under the later, post-FSLN, government of Violeta Chamorro), following a repeal of the law requiring the country to seek compensation.

The Court found in its verdict that the United States was "in breach of its obligations under customary international law not to use force against another State", "not to intervene in its affairs", "not to violate its sovereignty", "not to interrupt peaceful maritime commerce", and "in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956."

The Court had 16 final decisions upon which it voted. In Statement 9, the Court stated that the U.S. encouraged human rights violations by the Contras by the manual entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare.

If that is the case, then Obama pulled an extremely boneheaded move today.

You mean how the President made a preemptive move to protect files that by necessity must be kept out of the public eye?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The fact the DoJ was handing guns and grenades to Mexican Drug Cartels and then blaming law abiding Gun Dealerships in an attempt to get more anti-gun laws on the books, isn't something the American People should know about, is that what you're telling me?

I think that if you're going to ding Reagan for Nicaragua, it's only fair to also examine the much larger proxy war in Afghanistan quarterbacked by the House Democrats at the same time, the one with much larger repercussions.

It's amazing what one can do with video editting software too.

That's the Fox Noise version.