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   From: anarcissie@gmail.com   
      
   In article   
   <59idnZxZ159rKKzWnZ2dnUVZ_oti4p2d@posted.carinet>,   
    "5295 Dead, 428 since 1/20/09"  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:16:53 -0800, Dänk 1010011010 wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Dec 23, 10:48 am, "*Anarcissie*"  wrote:   
   > >> The Americans who supported Pol Pot were the Reagan administration, by   
   > >> the way, not usually considered leftists.   
   > >   
   > > That's interesting, since Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were deposed in   
   > > 1979, and Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.  It is true that the   
   > > American government supported the Khmer Rouge (they were enemies of the   
   > > communist Vietnamese we lost the war to), but their reign from 1975 to   
   > > 1979 coincided mostly with the Jimmy Carter administration.   
   > >   
   > > Leftists like to blame Ronald Reagan for lots of things, including the   
   > > first cases of AIDS that appeared in late-1981, a disease cause by a   
   > > virus with a two to five year incubation period (meaning all those cases   
   > > of HIV/AIDS were contracted during the Carter administration).   
   >   
   > Another lie from Danky. You'll never find any instance of a leftist   
   > blaming Reagan for the AIDS epidemic.   
      
   Are you sure?  You can usually find one of anything.   
   There used to be a conspiracy theory about how HIV   
   was invented by the U.S. Department of Defense in   
   order to wipe out Gays and Black people, or something   
   like that.  If you define Gays and Blacks as automatic   
   leftists, which many do out in the hinterlands, then   
   you can say 'leftists like to blame', etc.   All 38 of   
   them.   
      
   (The term 'leftist' can be expanded and contracted at   
   will, since it has no settled definition.  Thus, if 38   
   'leftists' believe that Ronald Reagan invented HIV in   
   his basement laboratory, this proves the entire   
   Democratic Party, the state of Massachusetts,   
   and the population of New York City believe that   
   Ronnie invented HIV, because they're all the   
   same.  And they probably do look the same from   
   the suburbs of Topeka.)   
      
   > What you will find is a lot of people who were critical of Reagan for   
   > never making any public mention of the AIDS epidemic.   
   >   
   > As long as he thought it only affected gays and minorities, he didn't   
   > give a shit.   
      
   Assuming he was aware of the situation at all.   
      
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