He slashed the social safety net, and introduced deregulation leading to the savings and loan meltdown and contributing to the current crisis.

He promoted extreme anti-environmental policies and appointments, gave us the Iran-Contra scandal, advanced costly fantasies of a perfect missile defense.

It is difficult to conceive how anyone imagines that Reagan "stood for peace." "Our military forces are standing tall!" Reagan told us after the United States invaded tiny Grenada in 1983.

From the beginning, he enthusiastically promoted the MX missile, deployed in 1986 and cynically renamed the "Peacekeeper" - the most accurate and deadly multi-warhead nuclear weapon ever built.

Reagan's offici...

He slashed the social safety net, and introduced deregulation leading to the savings and loan meltdown and contributing to the current crisis.

He promoted extreme anti-environmental policies and appointments, gave us the Iran-Contra scandal, advanced costly fantasies of a perfect missile defense.

It is difficult to conceive how anyone imagines that Reagan "stood for peace." "Our military forces are standing tall!" Reagan told us after the United States invaded tiny Grenada in 1983.

From the beginning, he enthusiastically promoted the MX missile, deployed in 1986 and cynically renamed the "Peacekeeper" - the most accurate and deadly multi-warhead nuclear weapon ever built.

Reagan's officials insisted, and he himself may have believed, that our missiles and bombs were peaceful and defensive, while theirs - they were, after all, the "evil empire" - were aggressive and offensive. Other nations did not find this distinction credible.

The United States rejected peaceful coexistence with Nicaragua and subjected its people to devastating economic warfare and years of bloody terrorism from the CIA's "contra" army, a campaign that cost at least 50,000 lives.

Many authors are trying to rewrite history by painting a rosy picture of Reagan’s regime, but those of us who lived in and are firmly based in reality know the guy was a war hawk that George W Bush modeled himself after. The biggest distinction between Bush and Reagan is that Bush justified torture and he authorized spying on fellow Americans.

If you think Reagan was such a great humanitarian and one of the best presidents the US ever had, read the article for more truth and don’t be swayed by these ‘historians’ rewriting history in true ‘Big Brother’ fashion.