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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
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Other than a brief operation in Granada I'm not aware of any Reagan wars those noble Hippies were needed to stop. As popular a President Reagan was I doubt that he felt threatened by Hippies.
Reagan obviously seen drug use as harmful to Americans and a waste of ones life. I agree.
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I'm surprised no one else hasn't jumped on this statement yet. Reagans policies towards Central and South America were tantamount to genocide. There's the matter of the support for the Contras in Nicaragua which was state sponsored terrorism, breaking the US own laws (Iran-Contra). The International Court of Justice actually found the US under Reagan guilty of breaking international law for their actions against Nicaragua.There was support for death squads in numerous different countries throughout Latin America, propping up and supporting murderous dictators/regimes, amongst many, many other atrocities. So ya, there was more than a few things for "Hippies" to be angry about.
Reagan wasn't as popular as you think either. In fact, at many points during his term he was quite unpopular with a much lower approval rating than Kennedy or Eisenhower; often polling at numbers closer to Ford and Carter.
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