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(Pres. Reagan) was the one who slyly outsmarted the Ayatollah and Saddam and kept them off balance killing each other in the Iraq-Iran war while sending the money he got from sales of arms to both to Nicaraguan freedom fighters to beat back communism.

The Iraq-Iran war began in Sept. 1980, before Pres. Reagan was elected. It had its antecedents from the time of the Shah, who forced Saddam into giving Iran a favorable position on the Persian Gulf.

The guns-for-hostages ploy was a fiasco that didn't hurt Saddam or the Ayatollahs, and didn't break the mold of hostage taking of Americans which lasted in Lebanon for a decade.

You sound too young to keep yearning for the good ol' days. The President we have, and the loyal team that has served him for 5.5 years now, is the best I've seen in my 40 plus years of awareness.

It is my belief that those who mythologize the Reagan record do him a disservice.

He was great in many areas, but failed in some.........as all great Presidents have done (and as President Bush is doing now).

To insinuate now, that Reagan was flawless and could do no wrong, IMO, diminishes his real record of strength.

And those of us with real memories know better......

The Iraq-Iran war began in Sept. 1980, before Pres. Reagan was elected. It had its antecedents from the time of the Shah, who forced Saddam into giving Iran a favorable position on the Persian Gulf.

...and, do the math, Reagan took office on Jan. 20, 1981, only 4 months afterwards.

The guns-for-hostages ploy was a fiasco that didn't hurt Saddam or the Ayatollahs, and didn't break the mold of hostage taking of Americans which lasted in Lebanon for a decade.

You may call it "a fiasco," I call it brilliant...we kept Islamic Arab killing Islamic Persian by the thousands, we sold arms to both, and we fought off communism in South America with the money. Hello?

You sound too young to keep yearning for the good ol' days. The President we have, and the loyal team that has served him for 5.5 years now, is the best I've seen in my 40 plus years of awareness.

If that's the best you've seen, IMHO, you're little different that the Clinton lovers who also embrace incompetence! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------