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[den]

why do people wait for a bloke to die before they list all the bad things he did? Would you have said these things before he died? If so, why didn't you?

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Reagan, redux

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I guess the reason so many of us speak out against him now (and *did* in the past) is to prevent revisionist history from forming around him. The Republicans love synthetic icons, and if we don't learn from the mistakes he made, we'll repeat them. President Bush is currently trying to repeat the nuclear/star wars farce, with nuclear bunker-buster bombs (oh, goody, just what we need: more nuclear pits stored at the Pantex Plant in Texas, with half-lives of thousands of years -- they haven't even "disposed" of the thousands they currently have there, some in rusting containers). I doubt many are gloating about what Reagan died of -- just the hipocrasy of the lionization that's already formed around him.