CptStern
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a lot has been said about Ronald Reagan lately. Much has been said about his diplomatic prowess, his statemanship, his great leadership that brought down the berlin wall. There's another side to Reagan, one that has been all but ignored in the press lately. He was more than a little paranoid, consulted astrologers, fabricated stories, and almost brought us to the brink of armageddon on 2 seperate occasions.
Reagan had a tendency to make up stories:
"Yet, Reagan had a hard time distinguishing fantasy from reality – twice telling Israeli leaders that he helped liberate Nazi death camps when he spent the war in Hollywood. Even Newsweek’s recent hagiography admits: “He invented stories and then believed them. He thought trees produced pollution, confusing carbon dioxide with carbon monoxide. Welfare was bad because of a mysterious Chicago ‘welfare queen’ who drove a Cadillac while on relief.”
Reagan harried the soviets who thought he was preparing for war:
"Reagan was a commonplace nut, but one with his finger on the big red button. In 1984, he said on live radio that he had signed legislation outlawing Russia, announcing, “We begin bombing in five minutes.”
The Soviets responded to this “joke” by putting their nuclear forces on alert."
"Cold War historian Martin Walker writes that by 1983, “Reagan’s loose talk about fighting and winning nuclear war” had so frightened the Soviets that they believed a NATO exercise that November was “in fact not an exercise at all but an actual Western nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.” During the exercise “the Soviets put their military forces on alert and prepared for a Western strike.”
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Are we really at the mercy of one person? can there really be a "red button" that can launch armageddon? What do you all think...will the end of the world come about quickly? (Reagan with his finger on the red button consulting astrological charts) Or will it come about slowly in a less direct way...through the destruction of the enviroment? Nostradamus predicted that armageddon would be brought about by one man; the man in the blue turban...I think he meant the man in the Blue Stetson
Reagan had a tendency to make up stories:
"Yet, Reagan had a hard time distinguishing fantasy from reality – twice telling Israeli leaders that he helped liberate Nazi death camps when he spent the war in Hollywood. Even Newsweek’s recent hagiography admits: “He invented stories and then believed them. He thought trees produced pollution, confusing carbon dioxide with carbon monoxide. Welfare was bad because of a mysterious Chicago ‘welfare queen’ who drove a Cadillac while on relief.”
Reagan harried the soviets who thought he was preparing for war:
"Reagan was a commonplace nut, but one with his finger on the big red button. In 1984, he said on live radio that he had signed legislation outlawing Russia, announcing, “We begin bombing in five minutes.”
The Soviets responded to this “joke” by putting their nuclear forces on alert."
"Cold War historian Martin Walker writes that by 1983, “Reagan’s loose talk about fighting and winning nuclear war” had so frightened the Soviets that they believed a NATO exercise that November was “in fact not an exercise at all but an actual Western nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.” During the exercise “the Soviets put their military forces on alert and prepared for a Western strike.”
source
Are we really at the mercy of one person? can there really be a "red button" that can launch armageddon? What do you all think...will the end of the world come about quickly? (Reagan with his finger on the red button consulting astrological charts) Or will it come about slowly in a less direct way...through the destruction of the enviroment? Nostradamus predicted that armageddon would be brought about by one man; the man in the blue turban...I think he meant the man in the Blue Stetson
