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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (169993)	8/10/2001 5:43:04 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Sorry, the discretion of the president in the conduct of foreign affairs is practically unlimited. The Boland Amendment was unconstitutional, but before it was litigated it was overturned by Congress. In any case, although the spirit of the amendment was violated, the letter was not: the National Security Council was not excluded from funding the Contras. Finally, Iraq was an antagonistic state, but it was not an enemy. We were neither in a formal state of war with it, nor were we engaged in current military operations against it. No one at the time floated such an absurd notion as charging anyone with treason, because it did not apply.......

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (169993)	8/10/2001 6:01:16 PM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"He should have been jailed for treason along with Cap Weinberger and friends for selling weapons to an enemy and conducting an illegal secret war" Regardless of the propriety of the arms sales they were made to free americans, as I recall. Whether the American participation was illegal has never been detrmined. In fact if you can read the Bolen Amendment and explain what it means you should be on the Supreme Court. Remember, all they did not convict Ollie North of conducting an illegal war. He was convicted of lying to Congress, if memory serves me. Little joe