Posted on 12/29/2007 6:05:28 PM PST by gusopol3
From Kengor,p.205
During his first three years in office and particularly since the spring of 1983, Ronald Reagan had pushed a plan to deploy intermediate-range nuclear forces (INFs), also known as Pershing II's , in Western Europe. His goal was to prompt the Soviets to remove their medium-range nuclear missiles from Eastern Europe. He told Yuri Andropov that if the Kremlin removed its missiles, there would be no need for the United States to deploy INFs. Reagan called this the zero-zero option: he wanted both sides to slash INFs to zero levels. If Andropov would not agree to do this, Reagan would ask NATO to deploy INFs.
Opposition to this policy was ferocious, with the Soviet propaganda machine dubbing Reagan a nuclear warmonger and labeling him a belligerent who wanted to plant missiles on the soil of Western nations that had never hosted such weapons. In addition, the Western nuclear freeze movement gave the Kremlin a vocal ally extending from London to Bonn to New York. The nuclear freezers led mass protests and assailed Reagan in the harshest terms. The International left was convinced Ronald Reagan was dragging the world to nuclear Armageddon. Freezers like Dr. Helen Caldicott of Physicians for Social Responsibility and certain Catholic bishops feared Reagan might blow up the world.
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The title you created was not the title at the previous thread which you used as your linked source and had to be changed.
That title you created also did not match the original title on BloggersNews.net, the linked source for the original thread.
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September 19, 1984
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON FOUR TERMS IN CONGRESS
HON. RON PAUL of TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
This is the heading from the previous post from which the paul quote was taken. Furthermore I have in my hand my purchesed copy of THE Crusader, from which I directly transcribed the material I attributed to Kengor, p205.
then my mistake was that I should not have included the link, since that was not where I got the material of the excerpt.That was taken from the pages of the book which I own. I did a search to be helpful to other freepers because other related material had been discussed on that post.
For those who don’t know and are interested, the author, Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College, one of this country’s premier conservative colleges.
Those who want their kids to have an excellent all-around education without the fluff courses and pay less than $20,000 in tuition/board/lodgings should consider this college.
I guess it was in 1984 and part of the Congressional Record.
he’s good, even superior, as one voice of 535 in Congress, but not so good as 1 voice in the presidency.
“When Ron Paul Stood With Yuri Andropov and Ted Kennedy Against Ronald Reagan”
was the title you created. It did not match your linked source which was a previous Free Republic thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1729481/posts
The source you wrote was “The Crusader,” and not the linked previous Free Republic thread, nor the source of the previous thread.
When you have original material which you have written, just call it a Vanity. If you copy out of a book, properly attribute the source, and provide a link to the book if it’s online. Also please keep copyright issues in mind.
Hope this clears up any confusion.
ditto.
But would Ronald Reagan back Ron Paul?
MEMORIALIZED IN SONG - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945953/posts
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