Originally Posted by smart makes a comeback

The real story non Ronald Reagan is one of treason, failure and curruption

Violated SALT, SALT2, AMB, The Helsinki accords, and the OAS treaty

Supported terrorists, dictators and terrorist organizations and genocide (PolPot, UNITA, The contras, Augusto Pinochet, Salvadorian death squads, and the Mujihaddin, who would later morph in the Taliban and Al Queada just to name a few)

Imposed the biggest tax increase in US history

Not only did Reagan NOT win the cold war ;

He had signed on to Gorbacev’s “Union treaty” which would have guaranteed the existence of the soviet union indefinitely

His "tear down that wall" speech was made nearly two weeks after the Solviets already stated they planned to

The most corrupt administration in US history


Lyn Nofziger--convicted on charges of illegal lobbying of White House in Wedtech scandal.

* Michael Deaver received three years' probation and was fined one hundred thousand dollars after being convicted for lying to a congressional subcomittee and a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities after leaving the White House.

* E. Bob Wallach, close friend and law classmate of Atty General Edwin Meese, was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $250,000 in connection with the Wedtech influence-peddling scandal.
Then there was:
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- the Pentagon procurement scandal, which resulted from the Republicans' enormous infusion of money too quickly into the Defense Department after the lean Carter years.

-- Massive fraud and mismanagement in the Department of Housing and Urban Development throughout Reagan's eight years. These were finally documented in congressional hearings in spring 1989, after Reagan left office. Cost the taxpayers billions of dollars in losses. What made this scandal most shameful was that Reagans' friends and fixers profited at the expense of the poor, the very people HUD and the federal government were pledged to assist through low-income housing.

-- the Iran-Contra scandal. In June, 1984, at a National Security Council meeting, CIA Director Casey urged President Reagan to seek third-party aid for the Nicaraguan contras. Secretary of State Schultz warned that it would be an "impeachable offense" if the U.S. government acted as conduit for such secret funding. But that didn't stop them. That same day, Oliver North was seeking third-party aid for the contras. But Reagan, the "teflon President" avoided serious charges of impeachment.

* Oliver North--convicted of falsifying and destroying documents, accepting an illegal

There is MUCH more...but this is all Steve K's usual retard cut and past bullshit warrants