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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (4153)	1/31/2001 9:41:02 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I am inclined to beleive his version since he didn't act like a guilty man a la Bubba and his henchmen. There are various ways of acting guilty. Denying all knowledge and letting your subordinates take the fall is one of them. It does not surprise me that you are more inclined to excuse the wrongdoings of a relative conservative than those of a relative liberal. That goes along with your ideological predisposition. My own ideological predisposition leads me to believe that both of them are guilty. I also believe that both of them are probably guilty of a good number of things that we didn't find out about. There is no doubt in my mind, for example, that Iran-Contra was the tip of the iceberg. There is no doubt in my mind that drug money was used to fund the Contras, and that the drug dealers running these operations received protection from US agencies under executive control (the same was done in SE Asia and Afghanistan; it is not a new tactic). I also don't doubt that RR had no specific knowledge of any such events, but I'm not sure that's much of an excuse. If you give someone an objective and a blank check, you're not relieved of responsibility for what they do with that blank check.