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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Neocon who wrote (37573)3/10/1999 9:20:00 AM
From: iandiareii  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
neocon--

Senator Rudman may be a windbag, but he's was on much firmer Constitutional ground than was the Reagan administration. Remind me, which Supreme Court ruling found the Boland Amendment unconstitutional, and when?

Presidential "leeway" in foreign policy ends precisely where Americans say it does. The American people made clear their wishes -- no further aid to the Contras. The congress enshrined this wish in law. The Reagan administration continued to fund the Contras in direct violation of both of those settled facts.

Extra legal killings are devoid of the recognized justification that wars, for instance, allow, and become strictly murder. The Reagan administration's continued, illegal arming of the Contras bore no valid governmental imprimatur -- neither democratic nor republican, lowercase -- and the killing that this enabled cannot be thus justified.

"The people in this country just don't think [aiding the contras is] a very good idea ... The American people have the constitutional right to be wrong. And what Ronald Reagan thinks or what Oliver North thinks ... [means] not a whit, if the American people say, 'Enough.'" -- Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., at Iran-contra hearings

Signing off

ian
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