Author Topic: Reagan Quotes. (Read 2627 times)

ravells · « **Reply #60 on:** June 13, 2004, 05:00:39 PM »

I utterly detsted Regan's policitcs (which Maggie Thatcher adopted) when he was the President of the US. I thought he was a war mongerer par extrodinairre.

After he died, I was driving down from Lancashire to London (about a 3 hour trip) and the Beeb were doing a a very long piece on his life on the radio. The longer I listened to it, the more I thought, 'Hey, the guy might have had a point after all'.

The thing that struck me the most was this:

He may have been clueless (I'm sorry, I thought that Carter was streets more intelligent than he was) , but his heart was in the right place. I think he was a very decent, honest man, and for that, I'm glad.

Ravs

AKcurly · « **Reply #61 on:** June 13, 2004, 05:20:20 PM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
A President coming clean about wrong doing? What a concept. Sure never happened during Slick's service did it?

Would you have preferred he invaded Iran to get our people?

Because I assumed his remarks were on the same order as his lies about military service. You seem to have ignored that one, Iron.

curly

AKIron · « **Reply #62 on:** June 13, 2004, 08:54:37 PM »

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Originally posted by AKcurly
Because I assumed his remarks were on the same order as his lies about military service. You seem to have ignored that one, Iron.

curly

I was hoping you wouldn't notice Curly. Well... uh... well... hey, nobody's perfect.

AKIron · « **Reply #63 on:** June 13, 2004, 09:13:15 PM »

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Originally posted by AKcurly
How about this one, Lazs? Is it out of context? You're old enough to remember him saying it. I both heard and read it.

In November 1983, Reagan told visiting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he had served as a photographer in a U.S. Army unit assigned to film Nazi death camps. He repeated the story to Simon Wiesenthal the following February. Reagan never visited or filmed a concentration camp; he spent World War II in Hollywood, making training films with the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps.

curly

I remember we discussed this one before Curly. After giving it more thought it doesn't have to be a lie or even an attempt to mislead if taken out of context. Consider their conversation may have gone something like this:

Shamir, "So Ronnie, I understand you were in the Army Air Corps during WWII?"

Reagan, "That's right Yitzy. In fact I was assigned to the same unit that photographed the nazi death camps."

I'm not saying it happened this way, only that I consider it possible without further info. I may do a search to see exactly which units did both later.

OK, the 1st Motion Picture Unit definitely had combat camera units. Whether they filmed nazi death camps isn't mentioned in this article but is certainly plausible.

http://www.militarymuseum.org/1stmpu.html

Combat Camera Units

Combat Camera crews were trained by the First Motion Picture Unit at the Page Military Academy, only a half mile from the studio. Each crew was composed of seven Officers and 20 to 30 Enlisted men, depending on the theater of War they were sent to.

The training consisted of very intensive instruction in photography with a variety of motion picture and still cameras. Thorough training in the maintenance of' the cameras, aerial camera work under true flight conditions, often across the country. Rigid physical training, simulating ground combat, as well as the use of combat weapons.

The Camera Units, after training was completed, were sent out to all Army Air Force fronts throughout the World. They were on bombing raids as a matter of routine. The raids took many casualties and percentage-wise were high but many members of the Units received the most commendable decorations.

AKcurly · « **Reply #64 on:** June 13, 2004, 11:27:49 PM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
I remember we discussed this one before Curly. After giving it more thought it doesn't have to be a lie or even an attempt to mislead if taken out of context. Consider their conversation may have gone something like this:

Shamir, "So Ronnie, I understand you were in the Army Air Corps during WWII?"

Reagan, "That's right Yitzy. In fact I was assigned to the same unit that photographed the nazi death camps."
commendable decorations.

Nope. He made a big deal of it. He spoke at some length about the horror of entering the camp & etc.

In a phrase, he lied.

curly

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #65 on:** June 14, 2004, 12:05:51 AM »

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Originally posted by storch
Ah the whimsical and zany euros! it must be terrible to be emasculated. you poor helpless girlymen.

You mean like these guys?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=530990

So....what's it like being a uneducated right wing bigot?

Nash · « **Reply #66 on:** June 14, 2004, 12:14:12 AM »

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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
So....what's it like being a uneducated right wing bigot?

The merciful thing about that particular affliction is that they don't know any different.

To sleep, to dream....

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #67 on:** June 14, 2004, 12:28:19 AM »

The Brits obviously still believe that when it comes to the bayonet
"They don't like it upem!!"

Yeager · « **Reply #68 on:** June 14, 2004, 12:35:31 AM »

Nope. He made a big deal of it. He spoke at some length about the horror of entering the camp & etc.

In a phrase, he lied.
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Ive never heard of this. Were you there? did you hear it yourself or are you just taking someone elses word for it?

Yeager · « **Reply #69 on:** June 14, 2004, 12:41:55 AM »

You better beleive it shredenfraud, laws need enforcers. Stop the crackheads and dopeaddicts. Brown shirts green shirts blue shirts take your pick. Stand on the side of law and order or on the side of anarchy and chaos.

AKcurly · « **Reply #70 on:** June 14, 2004, 12:54:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
Nope. He made a big deal of it. He spoke at some length about the horror of entering the camp & etc.

In a phrase, he lied.
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Ive never heard of this. Were you there? did you hear it yourself or are you just taking someone elses word for it?

Yeager, it happened so long ago, I can't honestly say I heard Reagan make the remark on TV. I think I did, but I might be wrong. However, it was widely reported by *all* newsmagazines as well as the major newspapers.

Heck, I kept the Time issue for years because I thought it was so funny. I still have the Jimmy Carter playboy interview.

There are numerous webpages if you care to use google or yahoo - you can easily find it. Look for something like "presidential blunders"

curly

Nash · « **Reply #71 on:** June 14, 2004, 01:40:50 AM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
You better beleive it shredenfraud, laws need enforcers. Stop the crackheads and dopeaddicts. Brown shirts green shirts blue shirts take your pick. Stand on the side of law and order or on the side of anarchy and chaos.

rofl.

Yes STOP the crackheads and the dope addicts!!!!!!!!!

What a menace to society. Btw... can ya spare any change for a war?

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #72 on:** June 14, 2004, 02:37:42 AM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
You better beleive it shredenfraud, laws need enforcers. Stop the crackheads and dopeaddicts. Brown shirts green shirts blue shirts take your pick. Stand on the side of law and order or on the side of anarchy and chaos.

Schadenfreude...Schaden and then Freude.......misspelling as an insult is well........lame, the only effect it has is to show that the user is really, really dim - but if it makes you feel better about things, carry on - 15 year olds will be jolly impressed.

On a lighter note, still being bothered by the homoerotic fantasy's or are you starting to enjoy them?

I actually do stand on the side of the Law - fortunately in the country I choose to live in the Law would probably lock you up.

storch · « **Reply #73 on:** June 14, 2004, 08:15:08 AM »

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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
You mean like these guys?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=530990

So....what's it like being a uneducated right wing bigot?

Probably similar to being whatever you are today. If you really must know I would suggest you ask one.

Yeager · « **Reply #74 on:** June 14, 2004, 08:17:59 AM »

Schadenfreude...Schaden and then Freude
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Hello SchadenandthenFreude