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The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Cold War (A Synopsis) - Part VI - Sep 28th, 2004
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Posted on 09/27/2004 11:22:07 PM PDT by SAMWolf



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Detente: 1969-1975


NIXON

By the end of the 1960s, the United States and Soviet Union faced a choice: slow down their Cold War competition -- a process that would be called détente -- or continue an arms race that could end in all-out war.

In 1969 a new U.S. president, Richard Nixon, came to power. Nixon had new ideas about how to make the Cold War less dangerous. He was ready to accept the Soviet Union as America's nuclear equal.


Nixon announcing projected U.S. troop withdrawls


Although Nixon wanted to revise Washington's Cold War strategy, his first priority was to get American troops out of the war in Vietnam. By 1969 the war had cost the lives of 30,000 U.S. troops -- with no end in sight. Nixon told his South Vietnamese allies he planned to withdraw U.S. troops and hand over the ground war to the Vietnamese -- in a process the Nixon administration called "Vietnamization." In 1969, the first U.S. troops were pulled out of Vietnam.

ANTI-WAR

In Vietnam, the Northern government in Hanoi launched a new offensive against the U.S.-supported South. Nixon agreed to his generals' suggestion that U.S. warplanes bomb North Vietnam's bases in neutral Cambodia -- but he insisted the raids be kept secret.



Despite Nixon's wishes, the American public found out about the bombing campaign in Cambodia, and anti-war demonstrations took place across the country. Nixon countered with what became known as his "silent majority" speech -- asking the American people for his support. After it became clear the Cambodian raids were not helping U.S. efforts in South Vietnam, Nixon ordered a ground assault in Cambodia. More violent protests followed on American campuses. At Kent State University, U.S. National Guardsmen shot and killed four students.

DÉTENTE

In Moscow, Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev wanted to relax Cold War tensions with America in a policy that would be called détente. His thoughts coincided with ideas presented by Willy Brandt, the former mayor of Berlin and the new West German chancellor. Brandt wanted to improve relations with the Soviet bloc. His plans, called Ostpolitik, included the recognition of rival East Germany as a state. Brandt became the first West German chancellor to visit East Germany. He also visited Moscow and Poland -- and agreed to recognize Poland's western border, which had been carved out of territory seized from Germany in 1945.


West German Chancellor Willy Brandt


Brandt's actions eased tensions between the two Germanys -- but they also worried the United States, which feared it would lead to German nationalism.

DIPLOMATIC GAME

Richard Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, were the architects of the new U.S. approach to the Cold War. The two men preferred to work in secret. Through back channels, they set up summit meetings in Beijing and Moscow. They wanted the summits in China and the U.S.S.R. to help the United States get out of Vietnam. They also hoped to bring China into their diplomatic game. The pair alarmed the Soviets by traveling to Beijing for a historic summit with the Chinese leadership.


Nixon Meets Mao


Soon after, in March 1972, North Vietnam launched a new offensive on the South. Nixon responded with more air attacks on the North. The U.S. retaliation appeared to put a proposed U.S.-Soviet summit in jeopardy; would the Soviets receive Nixon in Moscow while his planes were bombing their North Vietnamese ally? But the summit went ahead in May. Despite harsh Soviet rhetoric, both sides agreed to limit nuclear weapons, laying the foundation for détente.

VIETNAM

Two weeks after Nixon's return from Moscow, men working for his re-election campaign were arrested for breaking into the Washington headquarters of the Democratic Party. It was the start of a major scandal: Watergate. At the same time, Kissinger was negotiating with the North Vietnamese on ending the war in Vietnam. Hanoi had presented Kissinger with a draft agreement -- but the South Vietnamese government refused to sign it. The peace talks broke down.



Nixon ordered air raids on North Vietnam, hoping to pressure Hanoi into an agreement while bolstering the South. The bombing served its purpose. North and South Vietnam agreed to the deal Kissinger put together. Under the peace accords U.S. troops would leave Vietnam, the Saigon government would stay in power, but North Vietnam's troops would stay in the South.

A NEW RELATIONSHIP

In August 1974, facing impeachment over the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigned as U.S. president and was replaced by Gerald Ford. The Soviet leadership was astounded by Nixon's downfall.

Meanwhile, the Vietnam peace accords had not stopped the fighting there. The South struggled unsuccessfully to defend itself against Hanoi's final offensive. By April 1975, the remaining Americans in Saigon fled.


Evacuation of the U.S. Embassy, Saigon


As Vietnam came under communist control, Soviet leaders hoped to guarantee the U.S.S.R.'s security and world-power status with a treaty that would recognize the postwar division of Europe. But the treaty, to be signed in Helsinki, ran into a stumbling block: human rights. Members of the U.S. Congress were taking the Soviet Union to task over its treatment of dissidents.

Despite differences over human rights, an agreement was signed and U.S.-Soviet détente was under way. The most public symbol of the new relationship between the rival superpowers was the Apollo-Soyuz project. In space, cooperation was replacing years of Cold War confrontation.



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Good Guys, Bad Guys: 1967-1975

DESERT WAR

The Cold War takes on a new dimension as the Soviet Union, the United States and their allies become involved in wars between rivals in Africa and the Middle East.


Map of Israeli conquests in the 1967 Six Day War.


In the mid-1950s, after a split with the West, the Egyptian government of Gamal Abdel Nasser turned to the Soviet Union for aid and arms. Nasser and the Arab states wanted to destroy Israel. But the Soviet Union, which had supported the creation of Israel on Arab lands in 1948, did not.


Israeli troops in Jerusalem during the Six Day War.


By 1967, the Arab threat from Egypt against Israel had become intense. Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Arab forces. Within six days, the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were routed. One million Arabs lived in lands under Israeli occupation. It was a devastating blow to Arab morale and Soviet influence in the region. In 1970, Nasser's death from a heart attack raised new questions about who would follow as Egyptian leader.

ENTANGLEMENTS

At the U.S.-Soviet summit in 1972, both sides decided to try a new approach to the Cold War: détente. Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev agreed not to seek advantage at the other's expense. For the Soviets, better ties with America outweighed Moscow's commitments to the Arabs. Détente angered Egypt's new leader, Anwar Sadat, who felt the Soviets were giving priority to their relations with Washington rather than helping Egypt wage war. Frustrated by the Soviets, Sadat ordered all of their advisers out of Egypt.


Defence Minister Moshe Dayan (left) and Major General Ariel Sharon visit Israel's bridgehead at the Suez Canal


Sadat's break with Moscow ultimately led to a large arms deal with the Soviet Union. This he put to use in October 1973 -- attacking Israel during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Egyptian forces made large gains during the early part of their attack. To help Israeli forces blunt the Egyptian offensive, the United States increased arms shipments to Israel. The tide of the war was soon reversed, and Israeli forces surrounded much of the Egyptian army. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who wanted Egypt defeated but not destroyed, negotiated a cease-fire and the first ever face-to-face talks between Egypt and Israel. Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy showed that America was winning the Cold War in the Middle East. But it also weakened the U.S.-Soviet détente.

ANGOLA

In 1975, as Portugal was withdrawing from its former colonial possession in Angola, three factions emerged -- all trying to wrest control of the country. The MPLA, the largest group, was left-wing -- its leadership had received training from Cuba and arms from Moscow. The FNLA was anti-communist and was supplied with outdated U.S. arms from Zaire. UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, also received U.S. supplies.


UNITA soldiers train their recruits in the use of Chinese weapons, of a distinctly primitive design, at a camp along the Zambian border.


The United States, just finished with the conflict in Vietnam, ruled out direct intervention in Angola with American troops. It sent support to the FNLA. Washington also turned secretly to South Africa, which sent troops and supplies to UNITA. Cuba, keen to show its support for the developing world, sent advisers and later thousands of troops to fight alongside the MPLA. Havana did not consult Moscow.

INVASION

In Angola, the Cuban-led MPLA forces were able to turn back the U.S.-supported FNLA. But a bigger challenge awaited the MPLA. In October 1975, South African troops invaded Angola from their bases in Namibia and joined forces with UNITA. After a series of setbacks, the combined Cuban-MPLA forces -- well-equipped with Soviet weaponry -- were able to outgun the UNITA-South African army.


MPLA


The CIA, meanwhile, was secretly providing money to anti-communist forces in Angola to recruit mercenaries from Africa, America and Europe. Several of these mercenaries were captured, tried and executed by the MPLA. Opposition to events in Angola grew in the U.S. Congress -- and lawmakers there cut off additional CIA funds. But the civil war continued, outlasting the Cold War itself.

HORN OF AFRICA

In 1977 U.S. and Soviet attention shifted to the Horn of Africa. In Ethiopia, emperor Haile Selassie had been deposed and replaced by Marxists. The new regime turned against the United States -- expelling Americans and ending the U.S. aid program. Neighboring Somalia had been a Soviet ally for years, and its army was equipped with Soviet weapons. But now that Moscow was also linked with Ethiopia, the Somalis considered turning to Washington.



Against Moscow's advice, Somalia prepared for war with Ethiopia. A Somali appeal for American arms was turned down by President Jimmy Carter. Nevertheless, the Somalis seized large tracts of the Ogaden desert in July 1977. Soviet support was now switched to Ethiopia. Soviet weapons and thousands of Cuban troops were sent to fight against the Somalis. With Cuban troops and Soviet support, the Ethiopians drove the Somalis out of the Ogaden. Meanwhile, détente deteriorated -- as solemn promises of restraint were blown to the winds.
1 posted on 09/27/2004 11:22:08 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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Backyard: 1954-1990

GUATEMALA

Central America, the Caribbean and South America become the battleground for a test of wills between the United States and the U.S.S.R. -- as the Cold War comes to America's "backyard."

After World War II, growing nationalism in Central and South America led to greater resentment against the United States, whose government and business interests dominated the region. At that time in Guatemala, the railroad, the main port, telecommunications and about 500,000 acres of land were owned by the United Fruit Company of Boston.


Jacobo Arbenz


In 1950, Jacobo Arbenz was voted Guatemala's president. Arbenz wanted to modernize Guatemala's backward society and started a land reform program, nationalizing thousands of acres of land -- some of it owned by United Fruit. Officials in Washington were alarmed and suspected communist infiltration of the Arbenz government. Arbenz wasn't a communist, but some of his allies were.

The CIA organized an operation code-named "PB Success," which mobilized disaffected Guatemalan exiles and peasants into action. The PB Success campaign brought down Guatemala's government and drove Arbenz and his wife into exile. Some 9,000 of his supporters were arrested. Among those who fled Guatemala was a young Argentine doctor, Che Guevara -- who went to Mexico, where he met Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro.

CUBA


Che Guevara


By the end of the 1950s, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara had triumphed in Cuba -- establishing a communist regime that soon allied itself with the Soviet Union. In 1961, the new U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, inherited a CIA scheme to send an army of exiles to Cuba to overthrow Castro -- a plan that had worked earlier against Arbenz in Guatemala. But the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion against Castro was a disaster.



After defeating the U.S.-backed forces, Castro wanted to take armed revolution into Central and South America. By the early 1960s, left-wing groups were fighting the authorities in Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru. The United States grew nervous; in 1965, U.S. Marines were sent to the Dominican Republic to end a democratic revolution that Washington erroneously believed was backed by the Cubans. Cuba's real efforts to export revolution, meanwhile, met with mixed results. In 1967, Che Guevara, who had called for "100 Vietnams," was captured alive in Bolivia and shot dead hours later.

CHILE

Chile had been calm in the 1960s. But in 1970 a left-center coalition sought electoral victory. Unidad Popular was led by a Marxist doctor, Sen. Salvador Allende. U.S. businesses and the CIA tried -- and failed -- to prevent Allende from being elected president of Chile.


Pinochet (second from left) with Allende (in white jacket)


Allende's first big step was the nationalization of copper, Chile's biggest industry, which was still effectively under U.S. control. He pressed on with what he called his "Social Revolution." Chilean peasants began to seize land. The Chilean economy was increasingly put under state control -- a move that upset overseas financiers. The World Bank in Washington cut off credits to Chile.

Inflation and economic problems mounted. CIA money helped pay for Chilean truck owners to bring the country to a standstill. At the United Nations, Allende accused telecommunications conglomerate ITT of trying to provoke a civil war. On September 11, 1973, Allende was violently ousted by the head of his military, Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Allende was found dead after the Moneda, the presidential palace, had been set ablaze. Following the coup, Pinochet had hundreds of political suspects rounded up. Many were never seen again.

CENTRAL AMERICA


Sandinistas


In the 1930s in Nicaragua, U.S. Marines had helped put dictator Tacho Somoza into power. Forty years later, Nicaragua was still ruled by a Somoza. After years of fighting, guerrillas who called themselves Sandinistas, after the name of a 1930s anti-U.S. rebel, ousted Somoza in 1979. The Sandinistas allied themselves with Cuba and attempted to bring a Marxist order to their country. But they found themselves being challenged by a counter-rebellion -- the Contras.


Contras


At the same time, in neighboring El Salvador, protests had broken out against right-wing military rule. Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero was among those who spoke out. In March 1980, as he was saying Mass in a private chapel, the archbishop was assassinated. At Romero's funeral, mourners were fired upon -- and many died. Later in the year three U.S. nuns and a female lay worker were kidnapped, raped and killed by men later discovered to be part of El Salvador's National Guard. The U.S. briefly, and temporarily, withdrew aid to the Salvadoran military. Meanwhile, Salvadoran guerrillas expanded their campaign against the government.

ENGAGEMENT

As the fighting continued in Central America, Washington was planning another operation -- on the British-governed Caribbean island of Grenada. When Grenada's left-wing prime minister, Maurice Bishop, was assassinated by extreme Marxists in 1983, the U.S. military had an invasion plan ready for Reagan's approval. The invasion, weakly opposed by a group of Cuban advisers on Grenada, was over in a few days. Within six weeks, their work done and Reagan's image enhanced, the U.S. troops left.


Grenada Roadside Sentiments 1983


The Reagan administration also was funding Nicaragua's Contra rebels. That undeclared war upset the U.S. Congress, which curtailed the Contras' funds. To pay for the Contras, White House officials secretly sold arms to Iran, a scandal that, once discovered, came back to hinder Reagan's government.


Violeta Barrios de Chamorro


By 1990, Nicaragua agreed to open and free elections, and Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega asked the Nicaraguan people to elect him president. His opponent was Violeta Chamorro, the widow of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, an opposition leader killed during the Somoza regime. When the votes were tallied, Chamorro won a narrow, yet stunning victory. The superpower struggle in Central America had given way to a quiet revolution at the ballot box.

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2 posted on 09/27/2004 11:22:53 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Ghandi would have smacked Kerry in the head.)
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By the end of the 1960s, the United States and Soviet Union faced a choice: slow down their Cold War competition -- a process that would be called détente -- or continue an arms race that could end in all-out war.

The Cold War takes on a new dimension as the Soviet Union, the United States and their allies become involved in wars between rivals in Africa and the Middle East.

Central America, the Caribbean and South America become the battleground for a test of wills between the United States and the U.S.S.R. -- as the Cold War comes to America's "backyard."


3 posted on 09/27/2004 11:23:16 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Ghandi would have smacked Kerry in the head.)
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4 posted on 09/27/2004 11:23:55 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Ghandi would have smacked Kerry in the head.)
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5 posted on 09/27/2004 11:26:57 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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Good Night, Snippy.

Back to the salt mines again tomorrow. ;-)


6 posted on 09/27/2004 11:29:07 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Ghandi would have smacked Kerry in the head.)
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Hey, I have not posted much about it, but this is a really excellent series on the cold war, folks.

Thanks for all your hard work.
7 posted on 09/27/2004 11:29:07 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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Thanks Pukin Dog, we appreciate the compliment.


8 posted on 09/27/2004 11:31:45 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Ghandi would have smacked Kerry in the head.)
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Good night Sam.


9 posted on 09/28/2004 12:18:11 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: SAMWolf
In the '70's I became convinced that the Marxist-Leninists, the Communists, as they were called here, were going to win. I figured I might as well join them since they were not going to be licked.

Well, just couldn't. Kept my head down, though, since I didn't want to get on their list. Remember that in Estonia children above the age of five who were the children of adults on the Soviet list were sentenced to Gulag, and that very few survived. Figured the same thing would happen here in time. Dan Rather would have loved it.
10 posted on 09/28/2004 1:45:21 AM PDT by Iris7 ("Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.")
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To: snippy_about_it
Ref my #10:

Spent some time working on getting to know those people some, those here in the USA. Probably that experience is why I am so hostile toward those people. I remember one girl, though - she looked extraordinary in a tight red sweater! Excuse the vulgarity.

The sweater business, without undergarments, was done for the Revolution. Wore it when trolling for recruits. She was a stone Trotskyite, she thought, but actually controlled by KGB. Murderous to the core.
11 posted on 09/28/2004 1:55:36 AM PDT by Iris7 ("Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.")
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Re my #10 and #11 -

Might appeal to you, Phil.

Matthew, isn't what I have said in #10 and #11 how things actually were? And can be, still, if we do not do our job?
12 posted on 09/28/2004 2:03:30 AM PDT by Iris7 ("Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.")
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To: snippy_about_it

Good morning, snippy and everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.


13 posted on 09/28/2004 3:01:29 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: snippy_about_it

Good morning..today is local election day here in Shelby Co..I'm handing out Bush yard signs at our local polling place.


14 posted on 09/28/2004 3:50:34 AM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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September 28, 2004

Think Together

Read: Philippians 4:4-13

If there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. —Philippians 4:8

Bible In One Year: Isaiah 5-6; Ephesians 1


An executive of the world's largest toymaker said, "We are such a machine in terms of what we deliver on an annual basis that it doesn't allow time to think."

In an effort to stimulate creativity, this company is taking selected employees out of corporate headquarters and encouraging them to think together in new ways. For instance, when asked to devise a method to prevent an egg from breaking if dropped from 14 feet, one group went beyond the conventional approach of trying to cushion its fall and created an egg bungee cord.

What about us? Are our lives so focused on activity and production that we don't take time to think? In Paul's letter to the Philippians, he told them to meditate on things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, and of good report (4:8). What would happen if we began this kind of thinking together in our churches and homes? Might we discover creative, God-given approaches to problems that seem to defy solution? Would our perspective on life undergo a radical change?

"Meditate on these things" is a great command. Obeying it with our families and other believers could open doors of discovery for helping others, serving God, and living for Him. Now that's something to think about! —David McCasland

Lord, help us to think of the right and the true,
The pure and the noble—it all points to You;
For if we consider what's worthy of praise,
We'll then want to live for You all of our days. —Fitzhugh

Right thinking leads to right living.

15 posted on 09/28/2004 4:32:45 AM PDT by The Mayor (Right thinking leads to right living.)
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WOW great coffee mug Mayor, a tip of the alfa6 lid to your graphics skills.

Howdy ALL, geat series SAM and Snippy.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


16 posted on 09/28/2004 5:07:54 AM PDT by alfa6 (Never Try To Outstubborn A Cat)
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To: alfa6

I wish it was mine, the mug came from freeper ForGod'sSake.
I borrowed it, it's the first time I've used anything but my Purple cup in 3 years!


17 posted on 09/28/2004 5:17:13 AM PDT by The Mayor (Right thinking leads to right living.)
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To: snippy_about_it

"Dutch's Home!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road")

Effete Whore'd's damned...Reagan's hearse waits...
RATS' derision towards Nancy, the Right ignores...
As Sean Hannity raves!!
Liberator's fightin' fer "the lowly"...
Hey, I'm FReer 'cuz what Reagan showed me!!
Dutch's headin' home again...Right claims his grace...we're not alone!!
We gathered outside...Leftists, you know just what we're here for!!
RATS're scair't 'cuz they're thinkin'...our Nation ain't listenin' to FOOLS anymore!!
Show a little faith, there's passion on the Right!!
RATS're poltroonish...we'll win the Big Fight!!
Folks, FReedom's all Right to me!!

Left ain't Right...we'll recover...RATS' loss is our gain!!
Right's awestruck...cut Big Guv'ment...shed programs to the States!!
Wasteful Guv'ment is FReedom's Bane!!
Righteous saviors, conspire...help US FReep!!
Normal folks...not "heroes"...we fight fer Good!!
At each election, VOTE Fer FReedom, World!!
Liberty is always Good!!
It's our chance to fight RATS' Lust Fer Power!!
Dutch, what else can we do now?!!
We'll educate Dem Lib'rals...reject Left's spin...show that Right cares!!
'Cuz the Right's future's hopeful...this Nation rejects Left's feeble fears!!
We've got one more chance to seal the deal...
Let's make that City on a Hill!!
Right's on track...Heaven's callin' "Dutch" Reagan back!!
Oh oh...come join our stand!!
Fightin' fer what's Right...come hear our Righteous band!!
Oh oh...Dutch is home...folks, Dutch is Home!!Yeah, 'neath the Dome!!
Standing out here, gettin' scorched by the sun...
Still, we'll stand and wait...we love Reagan like his sons!!
Lord, Dutch is Home!! We're Right...we're Bold!!
Dutch is Home!!

Yes, Reagan was our star...he outsmarted Ol' Gorbachev!!
Got the Country on track...now Gip's ready to take that long walk...
To where folks, they live in Peace!!
The gates're open...say "Howdy" to Saint Pete!!
We know Nancy's lonely...her loving heart is broken!!
But tonite Ronnie's FRee...after Righteous words were spoken...
There are tears in our eyes...fer all the dreams he liberated!!
We'll honor Gip's memory 'til we're olde...by rededicatin' our lives to Reagan's aims!!

[We'll] revere his name each time when we FReep!!
Ron's Revolution's grown...fight DemRATS 'til we're FRee!!
'Cuz all Dem Leftist fools don't know Ron...
RATS fear the RightWing's soaring dawn...
'Cuz when we fight righteous wars, Left's gone!!
Fight RATS' spin...John Kerry can't win!!
DeeCeeTowne's full of LOSERS...but, fer the Gip, the RightWing Shall Win!!

Mudboy Slim (06/12/2004)


18 posted on 09/28/2004 5:29:15 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (Girleymen HATE Bush!!)
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To: The Mayor; ForGod'sSake

Well lets give credit where credit is due, eh!

A tip of the alfa6 lid to you, ForGod'sSake, on the cool coffee cup. I wonder where I could get some of these made up at, hmmm?

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


19 posted on 09/28/2004 6:16:02 AM PDT by alfa6 (Never Try To Outstubborn A Cat)
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20 posted on 09/28/2004 6:24:46 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (When candy bars are outlawed, only outlaws will have candy bars.)
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