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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RJC2006 who wrote (2913)	8/24/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

<<And this is a BAD thing?>> <<Well yeah I suppose this would be the position of Jane Fonda, but for most sensible people it would be viewed as poetic justice.>> I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble with this sentiment. Sudan may not be our best friend, but we're not at war with them, and they haven't been accused of being a terrorist nation. They kicked bin Ladin out of the Sudan in the past. We've signed treaties to not use nerve gas, even in war. Poetic justice for what? What did the people in the building next door, or a mile away do? Are you taking a "screw the world, we can do whatever we want" attitude, or did I miss something about the Sudan?

To: RJC2006 who wrote (2913)	8/24/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

And this is a BAD thing? Yes. How many of the ordinary people in Sudan the gas would have killed or maimed do you suppose had the ability to stop the production of nerve gas components at the factory, assuming even they were being produced there? Suppose Cuba had firm evidence that a shipping container on a jumbo jet travelling between New York and Miami contained arms which were to be used by Cuban exiles (terrorists) to attack Cuba? When they shoot down the jet with a Stinger and 300 people on the jet and 500 on the ground are killed, and somebody complains that it is a terrible destruction of innocent life you are going come out and say "and this is a BAD thing"? Right? Get a life.