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To: Ilaine who wrote (131674)	5/5/2004 9:36:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

CB, I think Pres. Bush is probably a lot more annoyed than I am. I'm not all that upset because I'm not the slightest surprised. I'd have been surprised if something as bad or worse wasn't happening. It's what happens when people enthuse about power being much of a solution to human relationships and problems. I'm surprised that people are surprised. Electorates and enemy aliens don't put too fine a point on who was responsible. They take it from the top. Lt Calley gave the USA a bad name. Sure, he was the only American soldier who did anything like that, [yeah, right], but the taint flows all over. Bush is the commander in chief with a straight line to the lowest ranked military operative. He sets the rules. He enforces the rules. That's what he has to do. If he can't do it, then he's not good enough [if the issue is important enough]. That's executive responsibility. It's tough and lonely at the top and as the cliche has it "With great power comes great responsibility". How he handles it will be Bush's test. The electorate and aliens around the world are watching. He doesn't want too many becoming enemy voters or "against us" aliens. <the world doesn't happen on Internet time. > Actually, it does [increasingly]. Mqurice