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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (9417)	10/14/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

>>> Try telling that to the families of the innocent hostages Reagan saved. That it was a constitutional crisis? Since they were professional foreign service types I'm sure most of them had the political education to appreciate that. And since the Reagan campaign was probably, according to the accounts from the time, talking to the Ayatolla before they were in office, undercutting the Carter efforts, and since the Ayatollas regime has stated in any case that they were waiting for Reagan to get in, I wonder if the hostages appreciated the extra time in lockup. Besides that, you don't seem too concerned about actual constitutional crisis. Hypocrisy, maybe? This was a case not only of the Boland amendment being violated, but a variety of other laws having to do with misappropriation of government funds, giving technology like stingers to terrorists, lying under oath to congress (remember, Ollie admitted that as did others, after the Republican Senate gave him immunity), destroying government paper and computer records in the cover up, illegally assassinating foreign officials, conducting a war not sanctioned by congress, in fact opposed by congress, which is all by itself a constitutional crisis. Hundreds of laws were broken by hundreds of people, in a conspiracy run from the White House and we know this in detail despite the fact the the cover up was mostly successful in covering up the actions of the top players. I guess one definition of a right-wing prude would be that they think fellatio is a big deal but murder can be overlooked. Or that semen stains are the moral equivalent of treason. But if individual circumstances justify these laws being broken (and the argument about presidential powers is baloney, BTW, then how many children did coddling contra drug dealers kill? Perhaps the torture of priests and the tens of thousands killed by death squads or the assassination of elected officials is a proud Republican moment for you? I don't think it is. Cheers, Chaz