"Tear down the wall!" Pink Floyd, 1979

[Cetacea]

Ronnie didn't have an original bone in his body.


"Reagan provide an amiable face to cover years of human horror and budgetary madness..."

"...It also was a tragic by-product of the Reagan narrative on “winning the Cold War” that the argument was used to rationalize some of the most barbaric actions ever committed by the United States and its allies, especially in support of right-wing “death squads” that terrorized the countries of Latin America and other parts of the Third World in the Reagan era.

Without the rationale of fighting the "Evil Empire," these acts of Nazi-like brutality would have been easily judged as indefensible war crimes, with Reagan and other right-wing American apologists viewed as accomplices.

But none of this ugly reality is likely to find its way into the U.S. news media’s adulation over the late Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday.

Instead, the American people will get a steady dose of Reagan shouting, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” – and the Wall magically coming down.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/012911.html