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You guys are forgetting the thousands upon thousands of lives that were taken in result of our servicemen serving in the wars that the Conservatives started and got us into.
Why no outrage from the right when all of this happened?
What makes a few diplomats special and worthy of the continuous blame on Obama?
Benghazi was not handled correctly, which is a given.
But it does not excuse the actions of Conservatives that are used for political gains, lack morale, and respect towards those who sacrificed their lives for this country.[/quote]
Well, then....I'm certain you can't wait to give credit to the great conservative President Reagan who saved countless American lives by defeating the Evil Empire without firing a single shot.
Then, there's this:
"ReaganÂ’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, ReaganÂ’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years,[B] AmericaÂ’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. [/B]That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President ClintonÂ’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because[B] the defense budget [/B]is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down."
[url=http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/who-balanced-budget]Who Balanced the Budget? | Cato Institute[/url]
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1 The Democratic Congress funded the military in the 80's, not Reagan, if you want to claim that military buildup as a good thing (which I don't btw).
2. The peace dividend? The GOP/conservatives bitched about military cutbacks in the 90's every step of the way. Had the GOP been in control in the 90's, there would have been no 'peace dividend'.
3. The so-called evil empire was not defeated. Russia has essentially the same capability of wiping us out that they had 30 years ago.[/QUOTE]
" The Democratic Congress blah blah blah....."
"Reagan was made from far sterner stuff than was his Soviet counterpart. His genial grin and wise-cracking demeanor concealed a spine of steel when push came to shove. Yet at their next meeting in [B]Reykjavik in 1986, where Gorbachev would not budge on the "Star Wars" question, Reagan was decisive and unforgiving. He recalls in An American Life how he stood up from the table to proclaim that the meeting was over. Then he turned to his Secretary of State: "Let's go, George. We're leaving." [/B]Like any good diplomat, Shultz was crushed by so much roughness, but Reagan was completely unfazed. Later on, he explained: "I went to Reykjavik determined that everything was negotiable except two things, our freedom and our future."
[url]http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_77/ai_n6353166/pg_3/?tag=content;col1[/url]
So....how many members of ' The Democratic Congress ' did you see mentioned in the above quote?