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To: Amy J who wrote (190962)	6/19/2004 11:59:11 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1573678

Amy You don't find me complaining about Arnold's weird stuff he was reportedly doing when he was an actor. I don't think you can compare Arnold's behavior when he was an actor with Clinton's when he was president. Not only is the power imbalance much more profound, it does seem to me we ought to hold our presidents to higher standards than our actors. David, where are the WMD? Prison abuse? No-bid contract with Halliburton? No, don't bother. I am going to bother. No-bid contracts with Halliburton happen in every administration. But what is important here is that there is not one shred of evidence to connect any Halliburton contract to Cheney. And, Cheney has not one tiny financial interest in Halliburton. There cannot be any conflict of interests when there is not any interest, which is the case. Amy, you are simply consuming the Left's anti-Bush argument without thinking. While the WMD argument makes good political fodder for the Left, the reality is it shouldn't be an issue. Why? Because the Gulf War's ceasefire was based on certain criteria, which were met while Bush 41 was president, but which were not met after Clinton took office. Bush 43 simply chose to enforce those criteria. At that point Saddam refused. The ceasefire ended at that point. It should have ended in 1998. I believe this failure to enforce the terms of the ceasefire will ultimately be remembered in history as one of Clinton's worst failures (although, the mishandling of North Korea will probably be remembered as a bigger one). Saddam had WMD. There was an obligation for him to PROVE they had been destroyed. There is no evidence that they were. That's all that is required. Bush's failure to articulate this position is a failure of the administration IMO. Prison abuse? This is a military scandal, not a political one. Has nothing, whatsoever, to do with the White House.