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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (56737)	10/2/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

The contra war is a stain on the conscience of the country. Those who were consistently opposed to it, I applaud. Those who created it, concealed it, sold it to the Congress and to some part of the electorate, I don't applaud. They are complicit. At its inception and for the entire period up to the Boland Amendment, the war was clearly illegal. There is an argument to be made about the status of the war after the passage of the Boland Amendment, which I don't know enough about to reproduce here. Both you and Michael M seem to believe that for me to be unilluded about Reagan, I have to be a fan of some other creeps. I shouldn't be here, in fact I'm not, until Monday or Tuesday. This is my evil twin typing. [Edit: From the Garry Wills book I quoted earlier, something to keep in mind: "When Nicaragua took the CIA's mining of its harbors before the International Court, the United States Government refused to recognize the Court's jurisdiction, though America has used and emphasized the Court's authority in the Iranian hostage crisis... even though America's own representative on the Court's panel of judges voted to proceed with the case. " I was reminded of this by the constant invocations of Reagan as a man of iron principle. But really, I think he was, in the sense that whatever he needed to believe, or wanted to, he did, poor thing.]