Wanted to share a few things rattling around in my noggin that seems really ironic re: Bill Clinton and our involvement in Kosovo.
Bill Clinton has tried to assure the American people that Kosovo is not going to become another Vietnam. The same way he tried to explain how sex wasn't really sex? I guess that depends what his definition of "is" is. Good luck here, Bill.
General Wesley Clark, the American Army officer serving as the Supreme
Allied Commander of NATO forces, when asked about pictures of the
captured soldiers: "We've all seen their pictures. We don't like it. We
don't like the way they're treated. And we have a long memory about
these kinds of things." I hope he speaks for himself, and not an
administration whose First Couple can't remember how many gifts were
exchanged with an intern, the number of times they met for sex, what
he told his personal secretary, whether or not he asked Vernon Jordan
to find an intern a job, where Vince Foster's personal records were, how
FBI files found their way to a table in the White House Library, who was
assigned which cases at the Rose Law Firm, where her billing records
went off to, any part of any conversation held between himself and his
Commerce Secretary about Chinese campaign contributions before said
Commerce Secretary's somewhat mysterious death, exactly why they
thought the entire Travel Office needed to be fired to make way for their
own personal friends, and any number of other things that can be
expediently "forgotten" to curtail judicial investigations, Senate reviews,
and grand jury hearings. I hope Bill Clinton isn't including himself in this
royal "we".
We're being told by a President who was impeached for perjury, a draft
dodger, a pot smoker, a liar, a sexual deviant, a possible rapist, whose
personal friends, family, and Cabinet members are now and have been
under investigation for a myriad of charges, that the commitment of our
troops in Kosovo is a "moral" imperative. This is the LAST person I want
trying to define any sort of moral reponsibility or justification.
I think I'm done for a while here. Feel free to add any others you may
think of.
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Don LeHue
The pen is mightier than the sword...outside of arms reach. Modify radius accordingly for rifle.
[This message has been edited by DonL (edited April 03, 1999).]
Bill Clinton has tried to assure the American people that Kosovo is not going to become another Vietnam. The same way he tried to explain how sex wasn't really sex? I guess that depends what his definition of "is" is. Good luck here, Bill.
General Wesley Clark, the American Army officer serving as the Supreme
Allied Commander of NATO forces, when asked about pictures of the
captured soldiers: "We've all seen their pictures. We don't like it. We
don't like the way they're treated. And we have a long memory about
these kinds of things." I hope he speaks for himself, and not an
administration whose First Couple can't remember how many gifts were
exchanged with an intern, the number of times they met for sex, what
he told his personal secretary, whether or not he asked Vernon Jordan
to find an intern a job, where Vince Foster's personal records were, how
FBI files found their way to a table in the White House Library, who was
assigned which cases at the Rose Law Firm, where her billing records
went off to, any part of any conversation held between himself and his
Commerce Secretary about Chinese campaign contributions before said
Commerce Secretary's somewhat mysterious death, exactly why they
thought the entire Travel Office needed to be fired to make way for their
own personal friends, and any number of other things that can be
expediently "forgotten" to curtail judicial investigations, Senate reviews,
and grand jury hearings. I hope Bill Clinton isn't including himself in this
royal "we".
We're being told by a President who was impeached for perjury, a draft
dodger, a pot smoker, a liar, a sexual deviant, a possible rapist, whose
personal friends, family, and Cabinet members are now and have been
under investigation for a myriad of charges, that the commitment of our
troops in Kosovo is a "moral" imperative. This is the LAST person I want
trying to define any sort of moral reponsibility or justification.
I think I'm done for a while here. Feel free to add any others you may
think of.
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Don LeHue
The pen is mightier than the sword...outside of arms reach. Modify radius accordingly for rifle.
[This message has been edited by DonL (edited April 03, 1999).]