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Interview with Dr. Paul Kengor, author, "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan.."
BloggerNews.net ^ | October 29, 2006 | Warren Throckmorton, PhD

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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KEYWORDS: coldwar; crusader; freeze; kengor; missiles; nuclear; paulkengor; pershing; reagan; ronpaul; ussr
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"We insist that Western Europe take our Pershing missiles. We get the bill, and the hostility of the people of Western Europe, and then act surprised that the Soviets pull out of arms negotiations and send more modern nuclear submarines to our coastline." Ron Paul, Congressional Record, 9/19/84
1 posted on 12/29/2007 6:05:31 PM PST by gusopol3
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Hmm.


2 posted on 12/29/2007 6:07:41 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (Look at all the candidates. Choose who you think is best. Choose wisely in 2008.)
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To: gusopol3

And there are people on this forum who think this man should be the commander in chief?


3 posted on 12/29/2007 6:07:48 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: gusopol3
"We insist that Western Europe take our Pershing missiles. We get the bill, and the hostility of the people of Western Europe, and then act surprised that the Soviets pull out of arms negotiations and send more modern nuclear submarines to our coastline." Ron Paul, Congressional Record, 9/19/84

Well, that sure puts a hole in the "Reagan would support Paul" theory.

4 posted on 12/29/2007 6:07:58 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: doug from upland
And there are people on this forum who think this man should be the commander in chief?

And they are actually surprised that the rest of us don't.

5 posted on 12/29/2007 6:10:38 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Wow, so let me get this straight. This fruitcake opposed the corner-stone of the Reagan foreign policy, and now says Reagan would have supported him? Why, I think Obama should claim the same!!

Ron Paul - what a nut.

6 posted on 12/29/2007 6:10:41 PM PST by nwrep
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To: gusopol3

I have always been with the “mess with the US and we can and will, if necessary, kill you” school. I do believe this works and I don’t much care if it makes some people angry.


7 posted on 12/29/2007 6:11:30 PM PST by Bahbah
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To: gusopol3

President Ronald Reagan:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States
where men were free."


8 posted on 12/29/2007 6:13:39 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: wagglebee; doug from upland
Didn't you know that disagreeing with Ron Paul and his paultards is unconstitutional, un-american and unpatriotic?


9 posted on 12/29/2007 6:13:44 PM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: gusopol3
Ron Paul,I'll wager,knew that the huge demonstrations in Europe were organized and funded by an organization called the CND which,after the Berlin Wall fell,was revealed to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the East German government....but didn't care.

The more I hear about Ron Paul the more I despise him.

10 posted on 12/29/2007 6:13:53 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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To: darkwing104

Yeah, well they can complain to their comrades over at Stormfront.


11 posted on 12/29/2007 6:15:14 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: doug from upland

Ron Paul thinks the Cold War was a mistake. It’s no different from his position on the War on Terror.


12 posted on 12/29/2007 6:19:06 PM PST by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.com)
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To: Bahbah

the cleverness of Reagan was to face them down without having to fire a shot. The domestic opposition was of no help then, as it hasn’t been in Iraq either.


13 posted on 12/29/2007 6:20:27 PM PST by gusopol3
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And now Ron Paul is one of George Soros’ favorite people. What kind of pattern am I seeing here?

Ron Paul has some explaining to do, and I don’t want to hear any more of this “Ron Paul is a patriotic American” BS.


14 posted on 12/29/2007 6:22:57 PM PST by reasonisfaith (Donating to Fred Thompson is the antidote to media bias.)
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To: doug from upland

Didn’t you just love what he said after the Pakistani assassination?
If you did not hear it: both political parties made strong statements of condemnation and out rage, RP said “well we better not start nation building in Pakistan”.
Really does the guy have no grasp of reality? The statement did not make sense in regards to the question.


15 posted on 12/29/2007 6:25:39 PM PST by svcw (ncmi.net)
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To: darkwing104

how soon before the Paulistinians start strapping bombs to themselves??


16 posted on 12/29/2007 6:29:43 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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how soon before the Paulistinians start strapping bombs to themselves??

It depends on when the weed runs out.

17 posted on 12/29/2007 6:33:40 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: gusopol3
"Paul was also one of only four Republican Congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president against Gerald Ford in 1976,[33] when Paul led the Texas Reagan delegation at the national Republican convention.[36]"



Ron Paul led the Texas Delegation to nominate Ronald Reagan for president; Shown here left to right: Paul, Jack Fields, and Ronald Reagan aboard Air Force One

(> Wikipedia)

(***this has NOT been a recommendation to vote for Ron Paul, just an attempt to clarify facts***)


18 posted on 12/29/2007 6:35:22 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: gusopol3

When you copy text from another freeper (which he transcribed from a printed record), you should acknowledge where you got it. Second, you should get the date right. Paul did not stand against Reagan in 1984 as you claim, but in 1989 as part of a retrospective. The whole thing is worth reading not just your cherry-picked phrase.


19 posted on 12/29/2007 6:39:21 PM PST by palmer
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Okay, call me confused. Was the quote from Paul in the Congressional Record not 1984?


20 posted on 12/29/2007 6:44:37 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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