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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: iandiareii who wrote (37578)3/10/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
>>Remind me, which Supreme Court ruling found the Boland Amendment unconstitutional, and when?

Which Boland? There were so many. None of which could Constitutionally tie a president's hands in the conduct of foreign policy. It's called "separation of powers". Congress can say anything it wants in areas of presidential prerogatives, but the president is not bound. Congress's only recourse would have been impeachment, hardly something they could pull off. Reagan calculated that and won.

>>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.


Ridiculous. Congress cannot dictate foreign policy through acts other than declaring war and indirectly by defunding initiatives. They tried the latter and Reagan went around them for good reason.

Reagan had the power and authority under various Cold War executive orders to do what he did and the American people trusted Reagan, not the Dem loons in Congress, to make foreign policy. That was determined in two landslide elections.

>>Extra legal killings are devoid of the recognized justification that wars, for instance, allow, and become strictly murder.

And Clinton is clearly guilty of that when he bombed the Sudan pharm plant and killed all those innocents when he was trying to drive Monica off the news.

>>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.


It was not illegal. And it worked, saving many many more lives in the process.
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