Ronald Reagan actually said...

I offered to put off deployment for a decade, and I coupled that with a 10-year plan for eliminating all Soviet and American ballistic missi...

Now, the Soviets have made a strategic defense program for years.

First of all, I'd pledged to the American people that there was no way that I would give away SDI.

I think he believes sincerely their propaganda about us: that we're beholden to industrial and military complexes.