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To: JDN who wrote (147734)	11/19/2005 2:56:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793677

JDN, special prosecutors are great fun. Without trying to find out what Bill Clinton was doing in the sex department, we wouldn't have found out about the blue dress, cigars and had the performance of his confession, wagging of fingers, definition of "is" and so on. Similarly with King George II. Bear-baiting is great fun and it's a democratic tradition to harass the Big Boss to keep him on the straight and narrow. Bill Clinton's "crime" was to fancy a bit on the side, which it turns out lots of the RRR were doing too. Sure, sure, there was the technical matter that he didn't want to be caught in the act so, unsurprisingly, tried to stop his wife and daughter finding out, so told some white lies to the nosey parkers. King George II is so sanctimonious, smug, smirking and generally know-it-all that of course we want to sic a special prosecutor onto him. Anyway, disclosing a CIA agent is a LOT more serious to the national interest and public security than fiddling with cigars and a girl in the Oval office. Just who did give out that secret "Plame is a CIA agent" information? Fox-hunting is outlawed, and that's understandable, but it's still on to catch the big bosses in the act and have a lot of fun seeing them in trouble. Watergate was entertaining for a long time, complete with melodramatic helicopter departure from White House. Seeing Air Force One zoom off into the sunset back to the ranch would be fun too. George II has had a pretty good innings. Fresh blood is needed. What's fascinating is how there's a never-ending queue of egocentric megalomaniacs who want to be boss of everything, grab the loot and the girls and strut around like a bantam rooster. One day a rooster, the next a feather duster. This is the Year of the Rooster. Let's enjoy it. Yes, it is taxpayer money going down the gurgler on the special prosecutor, but we get a lot more entertainment for our money than the $billions that goes on overpriced military specification toilet seats, hammers, fun-flying and firing of expensive rocketry which is old-hat and we don't get to see most of the time. Mqurice