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"What Would Reagan Do?" Campaign Continues GOP's Creepy Deification Of The Gipper

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Of course, we'll never know the full story of Iran-Contra. The White House team shredded thousands of papers that documented the affair. But what we do know is that Reagan had utter contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law.

In a 1987 special, journalist Bill Moyers documented the whole sordid affair, in "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis," which you can view here. Watching it, I felt ashamed to be an American.

If the wingnuts insist on worshipping their hero Reagan, that's their business. But to try to portray Reagan as a paragon of honesty and integrity (and as a president who respected the Constitution) is a nauseating lie.

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Who Would Jesus Bomb? by Bia Winter on Monday, Jan 14, 2008 at 5:44:05 PM
Here's a great critique of Reagan's REAL legacy by Isaiah Truman on Monday, Jan 14, 2008 at 8:16:12 PM

 
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