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America
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In
1981, shortly after taking office Reagan intervened
in the strike of American air-traffic controllers
union, terminating all of the 11,000 employees.
This was a paramount blow to unions, and a victory
for the wealthy business owners. Ironically he
supported the Solidarity Union of Communist Poland,
while trying break unions domestically.
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His
doctrine of fiscal responsibility lead
to dramatic cuts of social services. This was
in line with us actions as governor of California
where his cut of social services led to drastic
homelessness among the disabled and mentally
ill
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- Reagan
promised lower taxes. His presidency was filled
with promises of tax cuts, but were met with
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of lowering our national deficit as promised taxes
increased. And his build up of the US war machine
tripled our national debit
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Middle East
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Afghanistan
He
also supported the training, funding and arming of the
Mujahedeen in Afghanistan; in essence building the forces
of the future Taliban and of Osama Bin-Laden. The Mujahedeen
were responsible for terrorizing the civilian population
and shooting down passenger airliners. Reagan saw them
as a better than the godless Communists
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Iraq
The
Reagan White House supported the sale of weapons and intelligence
to Saddam Hussein for use against the Iranians during
the Iran-Iraq war. In 1988 Sudam Hussein gassed 5,000
civilian Kurds; sanctions against Iraq was opposed by
the Reagan White House, and legislation never passed congress
While
the US "condemned" the use of chemical weapons
in the Iran-Iraq war, Rumsfeld visited several times to
Iraq to market the idea of allowing the Bechtel Corporation
build an oil pipeline to Jordan, which he turned down.
In Bechtel 1988 after the gassing of the Kurds the Bechtel
Corporation signed several contracts with Saddam Hussein.
One was to build a massive dual-use chemical plant outside
of Baghdad. The construction stopped only after the invasion
of Iran into Kuwait, when the Bechtel empolyees were held
in confinement. The last of the Bechtel employees did
not leave Iraq until December 1990. By the time of the
hand over of government to the Iraqi interim government
Bechtel was bidding for $35 millon worth of reconstruction
contracts. Saddam Hussein named Bechten as one of his
sources for chemical weapons information in reports submitted
to the UN.
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Donald
Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein meeting for
a second time to lobby Hussein to build an oil pipeline
from Iraq to Jordan, on the day the UN confirmed the
gassing of the Kurds; Baghdad, Iraq,
December 20, 1983
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Iran
The
Reagan White House involved itself in arms trades with
Iran in exchange for American hostages; actions which
where illegal. The Iranians reported that chemical weapons
were being used
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Lebanon
Considered
by many to be a terrible display of cowardice, Reagan
ordered the evacuation of US forces from Beirut, Lebanon
after military barracks were blown up in a terrorist attack
led by Hezbullah. The Christian Lebanese were then aided
by the Israelis in a failed resistance of the Jihadist
puppet government set in place by Syria and backed by
Palestinian terrorist guerrillas.
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Latin America
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Nicaragua
The Reagan White
House aided the anti-communist guerrilla armies of Nicaragua,
whom human rights groups say claimed the lives of 100,000,
the UN accounts for at least 50,000 deaths of civilians,
with mercenaries and arms
Guatamala
As in Nicaragua,
the government of Guatemala was lent the services of the
US Central Intelligence Agency and trained by the Pentagon’s
School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia in order
to aid their anti-communist exploits during the Guatemalan
civil war. The result was the genocidal extermination of
200,000 people, the vast majority being Mayan Indians. The
born-again Christian dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos
Montt was praised by Reagan who contended that the Guatamalan
leader was given a "bum rap" and sent as much
aid as Congress would allow]
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School
of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia
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El
Salvador
Reagan
supported the right wing government of El Salvador by assisting
with approximately $8 billion worth of aide, arms and also
use of CIA and military personal. George H. W. Bush personally
visited San Salvador to attempt damage control, insisting
“death squad murders" could cost them "the
support of the American people." U.S. backing of a
right-wing military state claimed the lives of approximately
41,050 civilians at the hands of the military and government
death squads, 776 at hands of liberal guerrilla forces,
at least 20 Americans (though actual figures are not known),
Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, 6 Jesuit priests and 3
nuns and 1 female American lay worker who were executed.
The White House denied involvement in any other capacity
other than as advisors. However Secretary of State Alexander
Haig and UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick seemed to justify
the deaths of the women by stating that they were pro-Marxist
“political activists.”
Honduras
He also supported
the torture and murder squad of Honduras, known as Batalion
316, with CIA assistance and in turn the batalion assisted
the contras (anti-communist forces) Reagan was dedicated
to. Reagan called the contras "the moral equivalent
of the Founding Fathers."
Scull
of exicuted man, Guatamala |
US
ground forces in Honduras
Honduras
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