Eric Jowers, a retired Army Officer, who served as
public affairs
officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991, wrote this
letter. He now
lives in Ozark, Alabama.
Dear Mr. President:
It's not about sex. If it were about sex, you would be
long gone. Just
like a doctor, attorney or teacher who had sex with a
patient, client
or
student half his age, you would have violated the
ethics of your office
and would be long gone. Just like a Sergeant Major of
the Army, Gene
McKinney, who though found not guilty, was forced to
resign amid
accusations of sexual abuse. Remember the Air Force
General you
wouldn't
nominate to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
because he freely
admitted to an affair almost 15 years before, while he
and his wife
were
separated? Unlike you, he was never accused of having
a starry-eyed
office assistant my daughter's age perform oral sex on
him while he was
on the phone and his wife and daughter were upstairs.
If it were about
sex, you should be subjected to the same horrible
hearings that
Clarence
Thomas was subjected to because of the accusations of
Anita Hill. The
only accusation then was that he talked dirty to her;
he didn't even
leave semen stains on her dress. No, it's not about
sex.
It's about character. It's about lying. It's about
arrogance. It's
about
abuse of power. It's about dodging the draft and lying
about it. When
caught in a lie by letters you wrote, you concocted a
story that nobody
believed. But we excused it and looked away. It's
about smoking dope,
and lying about it. "I didn't inhale" you said. Sure,
and when I was 15
and my buddies and I swiped a beer from a
refrigerator, we drank from
it, but we didn't swallow. "I broke no laws of the
United States," you
said. That's right, you smoked dope in England or
Norway or Moscow;
where you were demonstrating against the U.S.A. You
lied, but we
excused
it and looked away.
It's about you selling overnight stays in the White
House to any
foreigner or other contributor with untraceable cash.
It's about White
water and Jim and Susan McDougal and Arkansas, GOV.
Jim Guy Tucker and
Vincent Foster and Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones
and Karen Willey
and
nearly countless others. It's about stealing the
records from Foster's
office while his body was still warm and putting them
in your bedroom
and "not noticing them" for two years. It's about
illegal political
contributions. It's about you and Al Gore soliciting
contributions and
selling influence at Buddhist temples and in the same
Oval Office where
Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt led their
countries through the
dark days of wars that threatened the very existence
of our nation.
But we excused you and looked away. It's about hiding
evidence from Ken
Starr, refusing to testify, filing legal motions,
coaching witnesses,
obstructing justice and delaying Judge Starr's inquiry
for months and
years, and then complaining that it has gone on too
long. The polls
agreed. Thank goodness that Judge Star didn't read the
polls, play
politics or excuse you and look away. He held on to
the evidence like a
tenacious bulldog. Your supporters say that you've
confessed your wrong
doings and asked for our forgiveness.
Listen, what you said on TV the night you testified to
the grand jury
was not a confession; overwhelming evidence is not a
confession at all.
Not that it would make a lot of difference. A murderer
who contritely
confesses his crime is still a murderer. When your
"confession" didn't
sell, even to your friends, you became more
forthcoming. Maybe someday
you'll confess more, but probably not. You've
established such a
pattern
of lying that we can't believe you anymore. Neither
can your cabinet,
the Congress or any of the leaders of the nations of
the world. When a
leader's actions defame and emasculate our country as
profoundly as
yours have, it's no longer a personal matter, as you
claim. It's no
longer a matter between you, your family and your God.
By the way, I
don't believe for a minute that Hillary was unaware of
your sexual
misadventures, abuses of power and pattern of lying.
She has been a
party to your wrong doings since Whitewater and
Jennifer Flowers just
as
surely as she lied about the Rose law firm's billings
and hid the
Vincent Foster evidence in your bedroom for two years.
Why? So she
could
share in the raw power that your office carries.
The two of you probably lied to Chelsea, but that is a
matter among
you,
your family and your God. Remember the sign over James
Carvill's desk
during the l992 campaign? It said, "It's the economy,
stupid!" Place
this sign over your desk: "It's about character,
stupid!" No, it's not
about sex, Mr. President. If it were, you would be
long gone. It's
about
character; but we have to live with your filth, lies
and arrogance for
a
while longer. Your lies, amorality and lack of
character have been as
pervasive as they have been despicable, so we have no
reason to believe
that you will quietly resign and go away. You'll count
on half truths
and spin doctors to see you through, the country be
damned. It has
always worked before. We excused you and looked the
other way. No more,
we've had enough. You betrayed us enough. You have
made every elected
official, minister, teacher, diplomat, parent and
grandparent in the
country apologize for you and explain away your
actions. Now go away,
and let us show them that our country was not without
morals. It was
just that you were. Let us show them that America was
not the problem.
William Jefferson Clinton was. Go away, Mr. President.
Leave us alone.
And when you leave, know that your legacy to the
United States of
America will be a stain on the Office of the President
that is as
filthy
as the stain on Monica's dress. It will take a lot of
scrubbing to make
it clean again.
If you agree with this letter send it to as many
people as possible.
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