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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (137940)	6/25/2004 1:01:32 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

"But what I (Monica)was hoping, and did expect was for him (Bill Clinton) to acknowledge and correct the inaccurate and false statements that he, his staff and the Democratic National Committee made about me when they were trying to protect the presidency," she said" And that, dear Noel, is the crux of the matter. This post has got a lot to do with F.A. During the days, weeks, months, and years of post-Monica activities described above, the Presidency, for all practical purposes, was in captivity. It was in bondage: to the Press, to Ken Starr, to Hillary, to all of the muck-raking gossipers and scandal sheets whose daily existence and personal glee depends on the kinds of salacious activity in which Clinton in his White House sought to pleasure himself, not only at the expense of a young and naif pretty girl but the country itself. Why did Clinton do it? ". . .because I could" he blithely confessed. Meanwhile, the world kept on turning. Clinton found himself for the most part helpless to respond in any meaningful way to that turning, consumed by his need to devote all of his time and attention to the overriding necessity to avoid impeachment. His administration was in thrall, crippled by the moral turpitude of the man who would lead. The Sudan, (bomb the aspirin factory); ben Laden (lob a few missiles into an abandoned al Queda training camp); Iraq (take out those radar sites that interfered with US Air Force overflights while continuing the UN mandated oil for food program); Weapons of Mass Destruction (forgeddaboutit) Monica Lewinski (oh, that pretty girl who pursued me? (forget about her too). Am I claiming that Clinton's affair with M.L. is part of the cause of Bush II's Iraq adventure? Well, perhaps it did. Maybe Clinton's little tryst (it's nobody's business but mine) and its aftermath merely delayed the necessary American involvement in Iraq until a more responsible White House with a more responsible leader emerged capable of repairing the damage from the moral and political disaster left by the Clinton dalliance, a disaster that had not only personal but domestic and national and international consequences. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it in his essay, Self-Reliance, "Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."