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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (153906)	12/13/2004 4:37:22 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In 1981 the US Government stopped all aid to Nicaragua as intelligence sources had clearly proven that they were conspiring with the Soviets and the Cubans to export arms to Marxist rebel armies throughout the area including El Salvador and Honduras. In Nicaragua a rag tag army of anti-communists, the Contras, attempted to counter the Ortega putsch. This army lived a hand to mouth existence and spent an inordinate amount of time in the jungles hiding. The Boland Amendment was a clearly unconstitutional usurpation of the president’s clear authority to conduct foreign policy. The Reagan Administration balked at taking the measure to the Supreme Court because, given its political agenda, the Court could not be trusted to find merely on the facts of the case, which were and are clear cut. Wanting to be sure above all, that the Court did not have an opportunity to permanently and improperly rule on the matter, the US Solicitor General was not given the instruction to challenge the amendment legally. Adding to the overwhelming correctness of a president having the constitutional authority to deal with an aggressive enemy power operating within the Americas, the Monroe Doctrine had declared over a hundred and fifty years previously (President James Monroe’s message to Congress, Dec. 2, 1823) that it was not only the presidents right but his hallowed duty to oppose ANY foreign power trying to establish itself in the Western Hemisphere, our most important zone of influence and concern. Reagan refused to allow a left leaning Congress to restrict his obligation to run foreign policy. To fail to do so would have overturned 150 years of consistent and successful American foreign policy. It would have resulted in the Soviets using Ortega as a conduit for spreading “wars of liberation” throughout Central and South America. Since Congress had denied funding through the normal channels, Reagan issued a challenge to his staff. He wanted Ortega out and the Contras backed and he wasn’t going to ask many questions about how it got done. pipelinenews.org