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To: Srexley who wrote (287196)	8/15/2002 4:21:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: "'treasonous' is selling out your country imo and not helping two enemies pound each other into submission. >>> Actually, in American law treason has a very specific definition... requiring for example two witnesses, I believe.... Re: "Loral is the company, and they had Clinton's approval, which bypassed the normal approval process." >>> I'm not sure 'bypassing the normal approval process' rises to the level of treason... especially since the Government brought charges against Loral for lying to it, and not following the export rules... and won a conviction; and considering the Special Prosecutor examined the contribution issue and brought charges - just not against the person you say should be charged with 'treason' :) >>> Take it up with the Prosecutor, I guess. Re: "It was his biggest donor too. I think I mentioned that." >>> I'm pretty sure Loral was NEVER Clinton's 'biggest donor' :) Re: "Whether it is treason or not, the Iran/Iraq missile thing does not bother me like the Clinton/political donor Loral/Chinese missile technology issue does. You view them as equal, and we'll let it go at that." >>> Actually, I don't view them as equal. I think the entire Iran/Contra mess of arms for hostages, then arms sales to prohibited countries to raise illegal funds for a prohibited war, then leveraging some of those funds to grow profits by flying coke on some of those CIA charters into the states... was a lot WORSE. >>> Death and distruction followed that entire series of events like stink on four day old roadkill: hundreds of thousands killed in Central America, thousands gassed from American-sold aircraft in Iraq, hundreds of thousands more killed by goosing up the war between Iraq and Iran... then even more in Desert Storm, and a decade of sanctions... none of which would have been occured if we hadn't propped Saddam up to begin with.