Zitat:Europe Recalls Reagan Fondly; Arabs Don't

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By JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - Former President Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) was remembered across Europe for his role in breaking down Cold War divisions and opening the path to independence for Soviet bloc nations. Arab nations recalled the Reagan days as a dark period.
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Zitat:DUTCH COURAGE
Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004

All Saturday across the networks, media grandees who’d voted for Carter and Mondale, just like all their friends did, tried to explain the appeal of Ronald Reagan. He was “The Great Communicator”, he had a wonderful sense of humour, he had a charming smile… self-deprecating… the tilt of his head…
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Unlike these men, unlike most other senior Republicans, Ronald Reagan saw Soviet Communism for what it was: a great evil. Millions of Europeans across half a continent from Poland to Bulgaria, Slovenia to Latvia live in freedom today because he acknowledged that simple truth when the rest of the political class was tying itself in knots trying to pretend otherwise. That’s what counts. He brought down the “evil empire”, and all the rest is fine print.
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Zitat:vorallem bei den Geruechten das Gaddafi irgend einen Verwandten verloren haben soll.

Zitat:schlammtreiber postete

Zitat:vorallem bei den Geruechten das Gaddafi irgend einen Verwandten verloren haben soll.

Nicht Gerüchte, Tatsache.

Wenn mich nicht alles täuscht war es sogar eine Tochter.

Zitat:A Troubling Presence at a Funeral

By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 11, 2004

Patriotic Americans will always cherish their memories of Ronald Reagan’s strong and courageous leadership during the Cold War. However, his funeral at the National Cathedral may uncap different emotions. Among those the Reagan family has invited to the ecumenical service is Mohammad Magid, a D.C.-area Muslim imam with disturbing ties to suspected terrorists.
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Zitat:REMEMBERING REAGAN

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

BY LECH WALESA
Friday, June 11, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT

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.

Poles fought for their freedom for so many years that they hold in special esteem those who backed them in their struggle. Support was the test of friendship. President Reagan was such a friend. His policy of aiding democratic movements in Central and Eastern Europe in the dark days of the Cold War meant a lot to us. We knew he believed in a few simple principles such as human rights, democracy and civil society. He was someone who was convinced that the citizen is not for the state, but vice-versa, and that freedom is an innate right.
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Zitat:Kerry on Reagan
The Massachusetts senator is saying all the right things now, but what did he say about Reagan before?
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
06/07/2004 5:45:00 PM

SENATOR JOHN KERRY issued a respectful and respectable statement in response to the news of President Reagan's death on Saturday. "Ronald Reagan's love of country was infectious," he said. "Even when he was breaking Democrats' hearts, he did so with a smile and in the spirit of honest and open debate. Despite the disagreements, he lived by that noble ideal that at 5:00 p.m. we weren't Democrats or Republicans, we were Americans and friends." This was an appropriate, even deft, statement--followed by the announcement by Kerry that he was canceling campaign events this week.

But it's worth taking a look back at what Kerry said about Reagan during and after his presidency. Reagan was president when Kerry was elected to the Senate, and their ideological clashes were colorful and frequent. That's to be expected. Occasionally, however, during Reagan's presidency and in subsequent years, Kerry crossed the line into strident invective:
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Zitat:Thomas Wach postete
dafür hat er zu viel "geleistet", so wohl positiv wie negativ...
im kalten krieg war seine policy riskant

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Du sitzt still auf Deinem Arsch, ganz egal, was auch passiert;
denn wer nichts wagt, kann nichts verlier'n!
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Zitat:und wohl auch manchmal am guten diplomatischen geschmack vorbei, aber er hat die SU sich totrüsten lassen bzw. dieser entwicklung, die schon lange seit den 50gern und 60gern im gange war, den endgültigen tödlichen Höhenflug verpaßt mit seinem unsinnigen SID, diesem star wars programm usw.

Zitat:Allerdings hat er scih auch dafür so manche andere sachen geleistet..die sozial schwachen in den usa werden sich so gern sicher nicht an den namen reagan erinnern, denn da hat er das geld abgezapft ( wie immer in den usa)..

Zitat:er war sicher ein großer politiker, aber man sollte es nicht übertreiben..an seiner seite hatte er auch fähige leute und er war in erster linie leitfigur.

Zitat:Reagan's lessons for Islamism
Diana West (archive)


June 14, 2004 | Print | Send

With the 60th anniversary of D-Day and the nearly coinciding death of Ronald Reagan, Americans have been compelled to reflect on the past, seeing rocky, bloody eras fall into the clean arc of history that appears only in a flash of hindsight.
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Zitat:Reagan's Early Victory in the War on Terror
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
June 15, 2004
French version of this item
The first American victory in the war on terror was won by Ronald Reagan, and it happened on Jan. 20, 1981, the first day of his presidency.

That was when the jihadists running the Islamic Republic of Iran released 52 American hostages precisely as Reagan took the oath of office. After 444 days of humbling Jimmy Carter, the rulers in Tehran decided to conclude their drama at the U.S. embassy before they had to face the new president. This marked the first of Reagan's foreign policy successes.
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