Ronald Reagan was an evil man and we should never forget that.

[givemebackmycountry]

From our friends at AmericaBlog.com

Reagan's reputation 30 years after the El Mozote massacre

When you hear some Republican waxing lyrical about Reagan the fearless champion of democracy, tell them about the El Mozote massacre which took place 30 years ago today. 733 civilians were mudered in cold blood by an army unit trained and supported by the US government. The Reagan administration bears as much blame for the attrocity as the soldiers who comitted it.

El Mazote was only one of many massacres perpetrated during the civil war in El Salvador. It is the most well known because there was a survivor, Rufina Amaya, whose eyewitness account describes a massacre organized in the same manner of the NAZI holocaust massacres.

The men were separated from the women and taken for torture, interrogation and execution. Then the women were raped, then executed using machine guns. Finaly the children were murdered.

The death squad that carried out the massacre were units from the army's Atlacatl Battalion, a rapid reaction force trained in counter terrorism by the US. Reagan supported the Salvadorean government with arms and weapons, apparently indifferent to the numerous attrocities that the army was perpetrating.

read the rest here:

http://www.americablog.com/2011/12/reagans-reputation-30-years-after-el.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Oh hell yes.

K & R

[russspeakeasy]

2. I agree 100%.

..but double bolt your doors and don't answer the phone.
Ollie is still out there.

[indepat]

3. Democracy at work

Bringing the gipper's brand of liberty and freedom to Central America.

[roody]

4. Rufina died a few years ago of a heart attack.

Support School of the Americas Watch to end this disgusting policy.

http://www.soaw.org

[Dawson Leery]

5. Reagan was and will always be a representation of the worst in nature.

[jakeXT]

6. His statues are popping up everywhere

Poland Unveils Statue of Ronald Reagan in Warsaw

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/21/poland-unveils-statue-ronald-reagan-in-warsaw/


Ronald Reagan monument unveiled in Tbilisi

http://en.rian.ru/world/20111123/168975588.html

[Maccagirl]

7. He deserves a statue for one reason only

A bathroom for the pigeons. Someone please remind America and the media about his Central America policy. This shiouldn't die on a liberal discussion forum.

[jakeXT]

8. The HBO Reagan docu delved into it

On the downside, Reagan also probes into his administration's horrific and illegal dishonor of Iran-Contra, as well as his blind eye to such calamities as the
AIDS epidemic of the '80s.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sundance-review-reagan-74826

[Jester Messiah]

14. It would be a great candidate for pulling down, like they did that statue of Saddam.

Or like the Russians did with the statues of Lenin and Stalin when they were finally free to do so. That'd be a touching moment indeed!

[Odin2005]

9. He was a doddering, senile idiot who what the frontman for folks like...

...Poppy Bush, Cheney, and Rummy.

[sufrommich]

10. The GOP is hoping every new generation will forget

a little more about the real Ronald Reagan. Don't let them get away with it. That smiling,benevolent old grandpa character was perfectly happy with the carnage in El Salvador, including murdering nuns. God, I hated that man.

[Solly Mack]

11. K&R

Reagan worship = short memories and mutally agreed upon 'shared narratives' (aka lies )

[LWolf]

12. I'm not likely to forget him, or his brutally destructive administration.

Evil, though? Was he really evil, or just a puppet controlled by the real evil?

In the end, the outcome is the same.

[Jester Messiah]

13. I always thought he was more of an oblivious tool.

Just a feeble sap who was good at reading things put in front of him. In any case, it hardly matters. St. Ronnie has become a mythical figure to the idiots calling themselves "conservatives", a fable spun up out of pure fantasy, bearing little to no resemblance to the actual man.