Address To The Nation On Christmas And The Situation In Poland

FirefightnRick · June 23, 2009

For those of you who may have been too young to have witnessed REAL leadership from the White House, take 14 minutes of your time and watch how the great communicator responded to tyrannical regimes and and how he supported the people they oppressed.

Address to the Nation on Christmas and the Situation in Poland (December 23, 1981)

I want emphatically to state tonight that if the outrages in Poland do not cease, we cannot and will not conduct “business as usual” with the perpetrators and those who aid and abet them. Make no mistake, their crime will cost them dearly in their future dealings with America and free peoples everywhere. I do not make this statement lightly or without serious reflection.
We have been measured and deliberate in our reaction to the tragic events in Poland. We have not acted in haste, and the steps I will outline tonight and others we may take in the days ahead are firm, just, and reasonable.

And check out an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, 23 years later from the president of Poland(1990-95), Lech Walesa, on what the support of President Reagan meant to his people during their troubled times behind the communist iron curtain.

In Solidarity The Polish people, hungry for justice, preferred "Cowboys" over Communists

GDANSK, Poland--When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989.

What an amazing contrast to then and now. Then, the U.S. supported those who wanted freedom and liberty. Today, the U.S. under Barack Obama turns it's back on those who wants it and instead invites the Iranian government whose slaughtering those same people in the streets, to our national 4th of July celebration?

Rick

EagleD · June 23, 2009

Reagan's failed Foriegn Policy

I've had enough of Reagan's Foreign Policy.

He tripled the debt by escalating the cold war. He trained and armed Osama bin Laden (That didn't come back to bite us, did it?). And he left office amid the Iran-Contra scandal.

All this while raising taxes 7 of his 8 years. That's not conservative. It's Republican. There IS difference.

Edited June 23, 2009 by EagleD

eulesseagle · June 23, 2009

Comrad EagleD-

I know you are being facious! (facetious-----thanks for the correction emmitt)

You do remember President Reagan took over from the "DISASTROUS" legacy of Prez. Carter??

1. Allowed the current situation in Iran.

2. Failed to get our hostages back.

3. Allowed communism to take hold in Central America.

4. Interest rates up to 21-24%. (purchased a jeep during that time with A-1 credit at 14%).

5. Billy Beer.

6. More socialist liberal spending.

-----this is to name a few-----

Basically, to sum it up......failed at home......failed abroad......he continues to ply his socialist rhetoric even today to the embarasment, of some member, of his own party and probably to all conservatives.

Were your mammy and pappy happy with interest rates, comrad EagleD?? you may want to ask them. Word of caution.....call 'em first because if you confront them, mano y mano, your folk may do some Bruce Lee on you.

Iran-Contra scandal?? It was only a scandal to those who supported communism in Central America like the Socalist Democrats in Congress, who as you know cut off funding for these operations. (these were the same folks who cut off funding for South VietNam.....you know the ensuing communistic tactics: round up dissenters, try to re-educate and execute those who are untrainable.) To the rest of us it was ensuring that the "FREEDOM" loving people of Nicaragua could have democracy over communism. Freedom to say and do anything, like kinda what you are doing on this blog, without fear of reprisals (you know the same type of repression you probably support in Iran when people speak out against the government).

President Reagan's policies "WORKED" at home and abroad, if you a believer of "democracy."

President Reagan's policies "FAILED" at home and abroad, if you a believer of "socalism."

Your article was in the same tone as what Prez Hilton was saying about Prejan......kinda funny left wing rant.

Edited June 23, 2009 by eulesseagle

KingDL1 · June 23, 2009

Reagan's failed Foriegn Policy
I've had enough of Reagan's Foreign Policy.
He tripled the debt by escalating the cold war. He trained and armed Osama bin Laden (That didn't come back to bite us, did it?). And he left office amid the Iran-Contra scandal.
All this while raising taxes 7 of his 8 years. That's not conservative. It's Republican. There IS difference.

Reagan ended the cold war, the costs involved to get there were cheap. The ability to scale back after that was a huge savings.

What non sense some of you people focus on, can't see the forest for the trees.

Censored by Laurie · June 23, 2009

Reagan's failed Foriegn Policy
I've had enough of Reagan's Foreign Policy.
He tripled the debt by escalating the cold war. He trained and armed Osama bin Laden (That didn't come back to bite us, did it?). And he left office amid the Iran-Contra scandal.
All this while raising taxes 7 of his 8 years. That's not conservative. It's Republican. There IS difference.

Outstanding article clearly written by a pragmatist with a deep rich love for America.

God bless Bill Weinberg...and God bless you Eagle D!

emmitt01 · June 23, 2009

I know you are being facious!

I'm confused, were you trying to say he was being "facetious" or were you calling him a "fascist"? Either way, speak and spells are still available at a few thrift stores on the square.

And you always seem to spell socialist so well...hmmm?

UNTLifer · June 23, 2009

God bless Bill Weinberg...and God bless you Eagle D!

This coming from you with that avatar?

Censored by Laurie · June 23, 2009

This coming from you with that avatar?

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. - Ezekiel 34:29

FirefightnRick · June 23, 2009

Reagan's failed Foriegn Policy
I've had enough of Reagan's Foreign Policy.
He tripled the debt by escalating the cold war. He trained and armed Osama bin Laden (That didn't come back to bite us, did it?). And he left office amid the Iran-Contra scandal.
All this while raising taxes 7 of his 8 years. That's not conservative. It's Republican. There IS difference.

Ronald Reagan did more to move America and the world in the wrong direction than just about anyone else in the second half of the twentieth century. The current official hagiography is historical revisionism of the lowest order. Do not eat this vomit.
Fuck Ronald Reagan.

Wow, such a high quality reference to rely on.

Interesting within this trash linked above I noticed this:

The "Star Wars" program was launched, with the US abandoning its commitment to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty--although sheer technical hubris has kept the scheme an empty dream, even in its current down-sized version.

The Libs love to mock President Reagan. Yet as soon as N. Korea threatens the U.S. with a missile strike, the Obama administration responds by sending a missile defense system to Hawaii whose roots began with President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative?

Rick

Edited June 23, 2009 by FirefightnRick

KRAM1 · June 23, 2009

I have mentioned on several occasions recently to my bride how very different and very powerful the response to the Iranian regime would have been under President Reagan. We can only hope and pray that there is another "Ronald Reagan" left in this great nation of ours to help correct all the mistakes being made by the current administration.

Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal today about how Obama is losing the "independents" after only a few months in office. The feeling among this group is that he is WAY more liberal than they felt he was going to be...gee, imagine that!

keith · June 23, 2009

I have mentioned on several occasions recently to my bride how very different and very powerful the response to the Iranian regime would have been under President Reagan. We can only hope and pray that there is another "Ronald Reagan" left in this great nation of ours to help correct all the mistakes being made by the current administration.
Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal today about how Obama is losing the "independents" after only a few months in office. The feeling among this group is that he is WAY more liberal than they felt he was going to be...gee, imagine that!

It's all about perspective, I guess. The left is attacking him as well for not being liberal enough. Bill Maher, especially, has really been going after him hard in the last couple of weeks. Watch out for the Progressives (such a good sounding word, but dangerous philosophy IMHO). They are all complaining that the Democrats have moved way right. I know, go figure.