Reagan lied about what our foreign policy was.
Secretly sold advanced weapons to the country which paid for the barracks bombing in Lebananon (which had caused Reagan to pussy-out and remove our troops, the single act which Osama BinLaden said inspired him to attack us because it meant we were weak).
Sold advanced weapons to a country which (still) hold an annual "death to America Day".
And then used the money to fund a group of murdering thugs who had assassinated a journalist on-camera and were murdering Nicaraguan peasants.
But this is the president who invited Jonas Savimbi to Washington and feted him as a 'freedom figher' when his record was of serial rape and murder and was a plague on humanity:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/feb ... iabrittain
"... Jonas Savimbi, who has died aged 67, was, for 20 years, a figure as important in southern Africa as Nelson Mandela, and as negative a force as Mandela was positive. For the past 10 years, using the proceeds of smuggled diamonds from eastern and central Angola, he fought an increasingly pointless and personal bush war against the elected government in which hundreds of thousands of peasants were killed, wounded, displaced, or starved to death. His death in fighting in the eastern province of Moxico was greeted with celebrations in the Angolan capital, Luanda.
It was a long fall from his heyday in the 1980s, when Chester Crocker, the longest serving US assistant secretary of state, and the Reagan administration's top official for Africa described him as "one of the most talented and charismatic of leaders in modern African history". Savimbi was the toast of the Reagan White House, feted by the rightwing establishment in many countries and a friend to African tyrants. He was a willing tool of the cold war, the key figure in America's and apartheid South Africa's destruction of independent Angola's nationalist ambitions, and responsible for suffering and death on a scale barely comprehensible outside his ruined country. ...
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With Unita publicly discredited by its links with the apartheid regime, the CIA and the mercenaries, Savimbi's political career appeared to be over. But he was saved by the cold war and his usefulness to the US and South Africa. His intelligence and charisma made him easy to sell to international audiences as the democratic leader Africa needed.
By the end of the 1980s his proxy army, supplied and funded by the CIA and aided by numerous South African invasions, had sabotaged much of Angola. Swathes of the countryside were cut off from agriculture by minefields, mine victims and malnourished children swamped the hospitals and tens of thousands of children were also kidnapped by Unita troops and taken to Unita-controlled areas in the south around Savimbi's capital at Jamba.
Appalling rites, such as public burning of women said to be witches, characterised the reign of terror in which many of Savimbi's close associates were imprisoned or killed on his orders. "
This is not to mention the warm support Reagan the Traitor gave to Pinochet who said "Democracy is Dead in Latin America" after coming to power by murdering 10,000 people and torturing 30,000 more.
There is hardly a bloodthirsty dictator who Reagan would not support. He also supported Saddam Hussein ...
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