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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey even threw little Jimmy Baker out there today to rewrite St. Ronnie history
On CBS of course, the new Faux snooze.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/12/baker-reagan-regret-over-south-africa-veto-179107.html?hp=r7
Former Secretary of State James Baker said on Sunday that the late President Ronald Reagan had expressed regret over his veto of sanctions on South Africa's government during apartheid.
"I'm sure he did regret it, Bob, in fact, I'm certain that he did," Baker told host Bob Schieffer on CBS's "Face the Nation". "It was after all, I think, the only time a veto of his had been overridden in two terms. And so, certainly, he regretted it."
After Congress overrode the veto, Baker said Reagan made an effort to reach out to South Africa's anti-apartheid leaders.
(snip)
"Had it not been for Nelson Mandela, and by the way, F.W. de Klerk, there have been blood flowing through the streets when apartheid ended in South Africa," Baker said.
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What really happened:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/52029/the-surprising-republican-civil-war-that-erupted-over-nelson-mandela-and-apartheid
(snip)
He vetoed it.
Reagan took his case directly to the people on a live TV broadcast. He echoed Crocker in urging Americans to be patient with South Africa's apartheid government. Reagan argued that sanctions would disproportionately hurt black South Africans without significantly undermining apartheid, and blamed black extremists for contributing to the violence. Change, if it were to come at all, would happen incrementally. He believed he had sold his case effectively, and considered the matter closed.
(snip)
Reagan issued a tersely worded response:
"I deeply regret that Congress has seen fit to override my veto of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986. Punitive sanctions, I believe, are not the best course of action; they hurt the very people they are intended to help ... [T]his will not solve the serious problems that plague that country."
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No, Jimmy. Ronnie Rayguns only regretted that Congress had blemished his disgusting record.
Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)Reagan was only sorry he didn't get his way. They should stop trying to re-write history.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)I am NOT looking forward to that festival of revisionism.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Maybe there will be some Margaret Thatcher type remembrances...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Yeah, the general public is just that ignorant...
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)but still convinced that they are going to be right some day.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)..in the same mold as Meese, Reagan, the Bushes, Rumsfeld, Cheney,Stalin, Hitler.
Psychopaths, all.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)dick cheney.
I don't know if he did or not.. they're all a pack of Liars..
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)That's about right. Asshole.
spanone
(135,874 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)What a joke.
spanone
(135,874 posts)reagan should have been impeached, at least.
malaise
(269,157 posts)particularly after what he and his goons did to Carter. Can you imagine what would happen if 200 plus marines were slaughtered anywhere in the world while Obama is President?
They don't even mention it when they speak of St Ronnie and they never mention that he vetoed against sanctions in South Africa. Ronnie was no Saint.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Now where're our trophies?
malaise
(269,157 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)to the USA will be cut off?
malaise
(269,157 posts)overturned. That was his only regret.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Are you sure there isn't an ice floe you could be set adrift on, Jim?
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Piss on all thieves and liars just like him.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)doesn't even ask for the absolute basic evidence for his claim. Did he ever express his regret publicly? Privately?
No, Schieffer just lets Baker channel Reagan supernaturally on his supposed news show.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)He was embarrassed his veto was overridden, not embarrassed for doing it in the first place.