Perhaps had Reagan openly threatened the poor and impoverished mountain dwelling Mayan communities of Guatemala with extinction, the UN could have helped them flee before the Reagan-supported, -funded, and -directed Guatemalan army actually carried out actual, literal, UN-investigated genocide against them.

And the fact that Lieberman was elected against all the wishes of people like you and Glenn is a perfect example of what you guys hate about our election process.

Exactly right. God knows, you never heard conservatives whining about President Bill Clinton when he was elected and then re-elected, nor did the right wingers ever do anything to get in the way of his agenda or Cabinet.

No, the conservatives of this country talked about nothing during Clinton's 2 terms than how honorable, and noble, and representative of Our Nation he was.

You see, when George H. W. Bush was issuing his end-of-office pardons for some of the criminals from the Reagan administration for their Iran-Contra dealings (but not for their war crimes such as facilitating genocide in Guatemala, for which they were not investigated), he not only gave his and Reagan's friends the get out of jail card, he actually went further, to justify their criminal behavior in the name of "patriotism":

Bush said Weinberger -- who had been scheduled to go on trial in Washington January 5 on charges related to Iran-Contra -- was a "true American patriot," who had served with "distinction" in a series of public positions since the late 1960s.

"I am pardoning him not just out of compassion or to spare a 75-year-old patriot the torment of lengthy and costly legal proceedings, but to make it possible for him to receive the honor he deserves for his extraordinary service to our country," Bush said in a proclamation granting executive clemency.

The president also pardoned five other persons who already had pleaded guilty or had been indicted or convicted in connection with the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages investigation. They were Elliott Abrams, a former assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs; former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane; and Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, and Clair George, all former employees of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Explaining those pardons, Bush said the "common denominator of their motivation -- whether their actions were right or wrong -- was patriotism." They did not profit or seek to profit from their conduct, Bush said, adding that all five "have already paid a price -- in depleted savings, lost careers, anguished families -- grossly disproportionate to any misdeeds or errors of judgment they may have committed."

http://www.fas.org/news/iran/1992/921224-260039.htm

Right wingers keep proclaiming that anyone who opposed their lunatic right wing policies around the world must be a surrender monkey, a jihadist, or in the older days, a COMMIE!!!

And because some of them wrote a book with the name "Venona" in it, they expect everyone to accept their words as pure gospel.

In the immortal words of Dana Carvey's George Bush Sr., Na Ga Da It.

From 'The Attack on I.F. Stone': An Exchange

By Herbert Romerstein, Martin Garbus, Reply by Andrew Brown"

Arguing with Herbert Romerstein is like trying to shake hands with a lamprey, but here goes:

He has erected a monstrous inverted pyramid of speculation on one fact: that Oleg Kalugin was reported by me in the London Independent as having used the phrase "an agent" to describe someone who turned out to be I.F. Stone. I understood this, in context, to mean "a contact," or "someone who proved useful"; Romerstein insists that it must mean someone who took orders from the KGB and collaborated with them secretly. Clearly, there is an ambiguity here. Good journalistic practice would dictate that we try to clear it up by asking Kalugin what he meant.

When I did, Kalugin told me that Stone was not and never had been a Soviet agent, had not taken money from the KGB, and that to suppose otherwise was "a malicious misinterpretation."

I reported this to Romerstein. He replied that I had asked the wrong questions. I should have asked, in terms, "Was he your agent?" "Was he paid."

So Martin Garbus asked Kalugin those questions, in front of witnesses. He repeated his denials.

Where does this leave Romerstein? Still, lamprey-like, sucking at the now empty word "agent."

He had promised us further anonymous KGB evidence if Kalugin let him down. There is not even any of that in his letter. Instead, we have a couple of stories from I.F. Stone's Weekly. Even by Romerstein's standards, these could not be evidence of secret, conspiratorial collaboration, which is what he is trying to prove. Nor could they be evidence—either way—that Stone accepted money from the KGB.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2734

What we should really put on the U.S. - Mexico border is a continuous chain of 300 foot tall Ronald Reagan audio-animatronic statues.

Ordinarily the Ronnies stand tall and rigid and beam sunlight from super-powerful lamps within His head, golden beams emanating from His eyes, as the creator of all Freedom and Liberty and Macho Virtues.

If someone approaches from the South, though, the sunlight from His eyes disappears, and the appropriate Reaganoid bends down over the violators and breathes pure liquid fire all over them, whilst emitting a powerful roar mixed from the patriotic cries of all the heroes of Ronald Reagan's Cabinet and also lots of lions and cougars and Harley-Davidsons and Chinook choppers.

If Our Commander In Chief cannot simply think any of us into dungeons for any reason or label whatsoever, then the Terrorists Win.

It's taken us a long time to finally get over the lessons left to us by the Founding Fathers, but, By God, the Reagan Junior Movement will do everything it can in its power to make sure there are no freedoms left for the Terrorists to hate us for.