For example,

Reagan is credited with the defeat of the “Evil Empire”, the Soviet Union. Reagan had many friends and helpers in his fight against evil around the world, including Saddam Hussein of Iraq and the fanatical Muslim extremists in Afghanistan that founded the Taliban regime and spawned al-Qaeda terrorism. Now, the U.S. is asking Russia for help in the war against Reagans’ former “brave freedom fighters”. Reagan’s robber baron bosses had another befuddled but likeable puppet leader under their influence. The Bush regime includes former members of the Reagan administration. They have succeeded in turning the U.S. into the new Evil Empire. Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and other holdovers from the Reagan admimistration helped to set the stage for the “War on Terror”. Reagans’ “brave freedom fighters” became Bushs’ “evildoers” who “hate our freedoms”. Colin Powell was there too, he played important behind-the-scenes roles in missile shipments to Iran, arms to Iraq and in the coverup of the Iran-Contra scandal.

Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the blueprint for American global dominance, was founded by none other than Cheney, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, and other former Reagan and Bush administration hawks. The plans for the invasion of Iraq were made years before 9/11/2001. The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon simply provided the perfect rationale to implement existing plans.

The Reagan-Bush bunch armed and supported the Afghan Islamic fundamentalists in order to “bleed the USSR white”. The monster they created grew too big to control, and now the U.S. is bleeding white trying to stop it. Now the U.S. is seen by people around the world as the “Evil Empire”.

Afghanistan 1979-1992: America’s Jihad
by William Blum

His followers first gained attention by throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil. CIA and State Department officials I have spoken with call him “scary”, “vicious”, “a fascist”, “definite dictatorship material”.

This did not prevent the United States government from showering the man with large amounts of aid to fight against the Soviet-supported government of Afghanistan. His name was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. He was head of the Islamic Party and he hated the United States almost as much as he hated the Russians. His followers screamed “Death to America” along with “Death to the Soviet Union”, only the Russians were not showering him with large amounts of aid.

The United States began supporting Afghan Islamic fundamentalists despite the fact that in February of that year some of them had kidnapped the American ambassador in the capital city of Kabul, leading to his death in the rescue attempt. The support continued even after their brother Islamic fundamentalists in next-door Iran seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran in November and held 55 Americans hostage for over a year. Hekmatyar and his colleagues were, after all, in battle against the Soviet Evil Empire; he was thus an important member of those forces Ronald Reagan called “freedom fighters”.

A “favorite tactic” of the Afghan freedom fighters was “to torture victims [often Russians] by first cutting off their noses, ears, and genitals, then removing one slice of skin after another”, producing “a slow, very painful death”. The Mujaheddin also killed a Canadian tourist and six West Germans, including two children, and a U.S. military attaché was dragged from his car and beaten; all due to the rebels’ apparent inability to distinguish Russians from other Europeans.

Like I said, there’s always more to the picture than meets the eye. Also, did you see that all but 7 of the Tea Party Caucus members (44 I believe) voted to continue illegal spying via the Patriot Act? I love the idea of the Tea Party, but let’s face it. there are many riding the movement who couldn’t care less about liberties. Thanks for all you do, and remember, the majority on both sides of the isle are traitors…Donnie…