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Conservatives, was Reagon among the presidents making terrorists?

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  • 7 years ago

    Making terrorists? No. However, to be fair, during the days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was the big enemy. Reagan (not Reagon) supported some groups that the Soviets considered terrorists. Support of the Contra rebels in this fight might have been over the top though.

    If you expound on your question more. Your misconceptions could be cleared up, provided that's what you want.

  • sb
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    Reagan was selling arms to Iran to fund the illegal war in Central America. Handling all of this was then CIA director George HW Bush. I'm sure that Republicans now don't consider that helping the terrorists but I think it qualifies.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Reagan practically created every modern terrorist organization we are fighting today.

  • 7 years ago

    no

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  • 7 years ago

    Wish the asker could say how this was, supposedly true. With out that I cannot make the connection from Reagan to modern terrorist. So no.

  • AmberP
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama are all in the business of arming and training terrorists, yes.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Liberals elect them into the U.S. government. Bill Ayers is calling Obama now and saying good job ,son.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No they didn't even know about shake and bake back then.

  • 7 years ago

    Why are Liberals sooooooo ignorant?

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I wouldn't put it that way but he certainly was presiding amid some of the worst terrorist attacks on the US in it's history ...

    1982–1991

    Lebanon: Thirty US and other Western hostages kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah. Some were killed, some died in captivity, and some were eventually released. Terry Anderson was held for 2,454 days.

    1983

    April 18, Beirut, Lebanon: U.S. embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; 63 dead, including 17 Americans. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

    Oct. 23, Beirut, Lebanon: Shiite suicide bombers exploded truck near U.S. military barracks at Beirut airport, killing 241 marines. Minutes later a second bomb killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut.

    Dec. 12, Kuwait City, Kuwait: Shiite truck bombers attacked the U.S. embassy and other targets, killing 5 and injuring 80.

    1984

    Sept. 20, east Beirut, Lebanon: truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. embassy annex, killing 24, including 2 U.S. military.

    Dec. 3, Beirut, Lebanon: Kuwait Airways Flight 221, from Kuwait to Pakistan, hijacked and diverted to Tehran. 2 Americans killed.

    1985

    April 12, Madrid, Spain: Bombing at restaurant frequented by U.S. soldiers, killed 18 Spaniards and injured 82.

    June 14, Beirut, Lebanon: TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome hijacked to Beirut by Hezbollah terrorists and held for 17 days. A U.S. Navy diver executed.

    Oct. 7, Mediterranean Sea: gunmen attack Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro. One U.S. tourist killed. Hijacking linked to Libya.

    Dec. 18, Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria: airports in Rome and Vienna were bombed, killing 20 people, 5 of whom were Americans. Bombing linked to Libya.

    1986

    April 2, Athens, Greece:A bomb exploded aboard TWA flight 840 en route from Rome to Athens, killing 4 Americans and injuring 9.

    April 5, West Berlin, Germany: Libyans bombed a disco frequented by U.S. servicemen, killing 2 and injuring hundreds.

    1988

    Dec. 21, Lockerbie, Scotland: N.Y.-bound Pan-Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight from a terrorist bomb and crashed into Scottish village, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground. Passengers included 35 Syracuse University students and many U.S. military personnel. Libya formally admitted responsibility 15 years later (Aug. 2003) and offered $2.7 billion compensation to victims' families.

    http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html

    And these righties trying to blame Obama for what the terrorists did ... that's folly but it's understandable because that's what the righties do ... they think attempting to make the dems look bad makes them look good. That's the same level as 3rd grade.

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