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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (26881)	1/5/2003 2:53:34 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Democracy died in America on the Federal level when the Reagan Administration decided to circumvent the authority of Congress back in 1986, when Congress passed the Boland Amendment to restrict funding to the Contras in Central America. The Reagan Adminstration, instead of submitting to the authority of the Congress, decided to secretly fund the Contras anyway and we got the Iran/Contra scandal. Gulf War I, back in 1990/1991, was another blow to American democracy. Bush I pushed the war resolution through Congress after he had already built up troops in the Persian Gulf and war was inevitable. Bottom line, Republicans don't care much for democracy, especially when it gets in the way of their imperialist ambitions to control the world's resources.