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Subject: Re: CLINTON JOINS LIST OF GENOCIDAL SOCIALIST LEADERS
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
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In article <1ra0i5$h69@transfer.stratus.com>, cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D.
Tavares) wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you've been under a rock since, say, the turn of the century. How
> > in the #$^& is one man supposed to review every single freaking
> > governmental action, every day? That's why we have an executive branch. HE
> > reviewed the plan and said "go," but he wasn't the architect and he wasn't
> > there, bullhorn in hand, implementing it. Yes, he was responsible in the
> > sense that he was briefed. So what! Shit happens. 
> 
> Hey, joe -- assuming you're old enough to remember it -- how did you feel
> about presidential responsibility every time Reagan said "I don't recall" 
> about his arms-for-hostages meetings with the Ollie North gang?
> 
> How did you feel about it when Bush said he "was out of the loop on that
> decision" when he was right there in the thick of it?
> 
> Oh, right.  "He was responsible in the sense that he was briefed, but so
> what -- shit happens!"  Is that what you said?

Of course not. There's more than a little difference between formulating
foreign policy and overseeing the ATF's handling of a scenario involving a
group of religious fanatics. Why do people compare apples and oranges?

joe.kusmierczak@mail.trincoll.edu
