🚀 go-pugleaf

Tracey*Levin wrote:
> 
> Heidi Halstead wrote:
> >
> > CALL TO ACTION!
> >
> > After 4 years and $40 million of public money, Kenneth Starr's
> > investigation of President Clinton's private affairs has yielded
>   a doomed presidency.
> 
>   Though people like Heidi Halstead cant stand it, Ken Starr has done a
> fine job of catching criminals over the past four years.  He has
> convicted 14 to 16 of Clintons close friends (the ones that are still
> alive) and associates, and now he is about to close the case on the big
> fish.

True, Ken Starr did a great job at what he was appointed to do -- catch
criminals in the White House and on Capitol Hill.  But I frankly don't
think he'd have managed to catch Bill Clinton's lies if he hadn't been
given a unlimited budget of tax money to do it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think Clinton lied
originally in a botched attempt to end the thing.  It would have worked
in the private sector, where the party opposing him was a private
citizen with a limited budget. If Ken Starr had been limited to, say $5
million for the whole investigation, Clinton could have lied, kept the
matter quiet, settled out of court, and been merrily along his way (and
Lewinsky, Tripp, and Jones might have come out with a few million
dollars in their pockets).
> 
>   The left is mad, but even they are now realizing that Clinton has gone
> way over the edge, and may now be bringing America to the brink of war
> to pull attention away from his doomed presidency.


I don't think we're at the brink of war any more than we were before we
dropped the bombs.

I cringe at the thought of us going to war with anyone, and I'm sure
everyone does, but we've been at war with terrorists now since the
1970s, it's just that they've been the only aggressors until now.

My personal worry is that Sudan and other countries where terrorists
will be bombed in the future might take the bombings personally, and
then go to war with us.  This could happen if any of our missiles go off
target and result in civillian casualties.  I thanked God when the early
reports of civillian casualties in Sudan were proven false. 

This is why I oppose the missile attacks; not because they're part of
some scheme dubbed by Craig Killborn "Operation Desert-Shield Me From
Impeachment", and not because some bomb toting terrorist just "declared
war" on us.

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