Greg Palast ...GOOD RIDDANCE, GIPPER

[LibertyorDeath]

From one of the Best Investigative Journalists on the Planet

KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN
GOOD RIDDANCE, GIPPER ...
MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
Sunday Jun 6, 2004
by Greg Palast

In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.

People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there had elected.

Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while they buried the mother of three.

http://www.gregpalast.com/

[physioex]

1. No he is completely wrong...

He forgot Chickenhawk, and Arm Chair Warrior....Was the term Chickenhawk invented back then?

[burrowowl]

2. Not really

RayGun was a real hypocrite and complicit in the murder of 200,000 Guatemalan Indians, among others ....

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. I realise "Armchair Warrior" is your favourite phrase right now

but Palast is hardly "completely wrong" if he fails to use it.

[abracadabra]

3. let'm eat jellybeans

rest in...oops-- I mean squirm in hell Reagan

[quispquake]

6. I still have that album "Let Them Eat Jellybeans"

A GREAT punk comp out on Alternative Tentacles in the early 80's...nice Raygun cover too...

[NewHampshireDem]

4. Got Palast in my in-box this morning ... alll I can say is "Wow!"

The "Great Communicator" was really "The Mean Prevaricator." I'm glad Palast (and others) has the balls to say it like it really was.

I wonder why none that I've read have touched on my major complaint about St. Ronnie ... that many of us kids who grew up in the 1980's thought we'd never see our 20's, thanks to the impending lauch of Soviet nukes or His Forgetfulness accidentally hitting the button.