RR was an actor who played the role of nice guy. And did it well. And, there is a very dark, shameful side to his administration. Among other things, it supplied Saddam with WMD and helped him gas Iranians. Using many of the same cast of characters in office now.

Just in Central America, much of this illegally -

"An estimated 300,000 people died in Central America's civil wars, about half during Reagan's two terms in office. Many were civilians tortured and murdered by army troops or death squads linked to armed forces that received heavy U.S. support, human rights groups say.

"A lot of extremely nasty things were going on ... and the Reagan administration really defended and even actively supported some of the worst human rights violators in the hemisphere," said Daniel Wilkinson of Human Rights Watch in New York."

Reagan's dying does not make him a saint or remove the stains from his administration.

Arf