Background Reference articles:
Liberal or Conservative? by June 
Consevative vs. Liberals and Other Truths by Average American 
Reply To Average American by fasteddie 
 
RE: Point 2.

Snippet: "... the United Nation's lack of strength to enforce it's (sic) own demands created the necessity of the United States to intervene on their behalf."  Average American
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_____________ made me do it!
(fill in the blank)
Kofi Annan
Bill Clinton
God

Snippet: “Where I come from, the buck ends at Bush's desk!”  fasteddie

The Letter below was written early in the Bush Regime's reign, but nothing is new under the son (son of Bush).  Those Bush Bucks are still flying back and forth over Bush's desk without even so much as a touch-and-go on it surface , let alone a landing.  He is the Champion "clean desk" CEO and that may have convinced him that there are no bucks.

Bubble Boy Bush had a rude awakening at the Correta Scott King funeral, however.  It was the first time the Bubble Boy has been exposed to public opinion in the raw without his handlers and a screened applaudience that has signed a pledge of allegiance to him.

The look on his face as he had to sit there and be confronted with all those outstanding bucks circling around in a holding pattern was priceless.  I think it was dawning on him that those bucks were not simply going to fly off the Average American's radar screen.  It was My Pet Goat revisited. 
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Letter to the Editor:
 
Bush apologist:  “Do you really believe the president makes all decisions and runs all agencies?”
 
Bushwhacker:  No, of course not. In this presidential vacuum Carl Rove does. 
 
Bush apologist:  “How many other high level positions are there? He does not run everything.”
 
Bushwhacker:  He does not “run” anything.  Nor should he, but … 
 
Bush apologist:  “When you are the top dog, you have others who are responsible for running their respective agency.”
 
Bushwhacker:  You said it.  The president, however, must staff those positions with competent people, never an issue before this administration.
 
Bush apologist:  “Stop pointing fingers at the president and look a little further down the chain of command.”
 
Yawn.  So there it is - that robotic Bush apologist’s mindless mantra.  Dubya isn’t responsible.  Pass the buck down the chain of command to the lowest possible level.  Sacrificial Buck private, front and center!
 
Dubya’s old whipping boy Kofi Annan, U.N. secretary-general, accepts responsibility for the Iraq Oil-for-food fiasco, even though the investigation, led by U.S. official Paul Volker, exonerates him.

Wow!  A leader who is accountable for his organization's actions? What a novel idea, at least in this Bush administration.
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