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To: one_less who wrote (44658)	5/3/2004 2:11:04 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

JotW, Re: AGENDA ... = not hot, not interested, not anything That's quite a stretch. If there was an agenda for that era, it was probably for all of us to get rich on the wings of the stock market and the Internet/tech bubble. Few people paid attention when, in 1997 or so, Leslie Stahl questioned then Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright if the sanctions regime could be justified in view of the horrible conditions of the Iraqi people. Albright said the untimely deaths were "acceptable" to U.S. policy. I didn't see that particular 60 Minutes episode. I wasn't even aware of it until much later when my research turned up a citation for the interview. I'm not sure what the point is that you are trying to make by obsessing over the Clinton Administration. This seems to be a hobby-horse of George Bush supporters. I had a similar moment in conversation last evening with my sister, a Bush supporter. After I made some disparaging comments about the truthfulness of the Bushies, she pointed out that Clinton was a big liar. I told her that one of my favorite new bumper stickers reads: "When Clinton Lied, No One Died." After a pregnant pause, she had no reply. So I continued my disparagement of U.S. imperial foreign policy....