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Current Events » in reply to re: Who said anything about Bush?

If we elect our government, our government represents us.
Mary Anne — (archived)

Even those of us who don't vote (which is a vote of sorts), and those of us who vote for those who don't win. Our government is our government is our government. It incidentally includes people who oppose actions taken or proposed by the Executive branch, because many of them are elected to office as well.

To say that "It's the State Department's fault" is to abdicate our responsibilities as a self-governing people. We are responsible for the activities of those who work for us. We are not necessarily personally culpable for individual acts of others, but we are certainly guilty of being accessories after the fact if we fail to hold our employees accountable for their actions.

That is what I meant, what I mean, and what I will continue to mean.

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