Was Reagan's "War on Drugs" a great way to downsize government?

--Especially creating such a gigantic criminal justice infrastructure and government jobs sucking off the tax payer teat?

Was this at odds with his "Welfare Queen" and "government bad" speeches?
-Welfare reform would have to wait over a decade later under Clinton.
But thank goodness for all those extra government, tax payer funded jobs and the poor tucked safely away in tax dollar prisons...continuing for decades.

While spending countless billions funding puppet regimes and CIA coups abroad.

oh Brother, Clinton was just doing the Reagan Bush regimes a favor pardoning all those cocaine dealers,
Importing coke to the US is a great way to fund Contras, don't you know?

No politician under the current system will ever reduce the size of government. And Bush's "veto everything" policy will ensure that there will be no change for at least the next 2 years.

Yes. Ronald Reagan was great.

That electoral vote is something else that needs to be flushed. All it's good for is rigging elections.

You've got to be kidding. Research before you post. Clinton vetoed the Welfare reform Bill three times. He only signed it kicking and screaming because Congress was going to over ride his veto. Clinton fired more DEA agents than any President and pardoned more cocaine dealers, including his brother that was caught on the DEA tape of his arrest saying" My brother is going to love this stuff. He has a nose like a Hoover."

The botched "War on Drugs" proves again that Reagan wasn't a true conservative. I don't know why these so-called conservatives around here like him so much.

That was ONE of his great achievements: the war on "drugs" (the war on freedom) did cost a few zillion dollars, but how about 3 of his other claims to greatness:

(1) said he would remove the obligation of the very poor to pay income taxes;
(2) said he'd abolish the dept. of education (which did and does nothing),
(3) established a new dept. of energy, which is actually just a division of the DoD, controlling nuclear energy.

Long live the bureaucracy. Hail to the people who control your lives.