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

To: halfscot who wrote (3613)	9/3/1998 3:00:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Respond to of 13994

Does this have a terrorist signature ? SWISSAIR 111 - crashed after leaving JFK bound for Switzerland Wed evening. DEJA VU ? #reply-5264832 << Bill Davidson is a retired U.S. Navy Commander and a trained aircraft accident investigator. Davidson spent 15 months conducting his own investigation into the causes behind the crash of TWA 800, and his conclusions differ greatly from the official story put forth by the National Transportation Safety Board. When Davidson opened his briefing yesterday he said "Somebody came into our waters and shot down - for the first time ever - a flag carrier of the United States." >>

To: halfscot who wrote (3613)	9/3/1998 3:27:00 AM
From: dfloydr	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 13994

As I see it, Clinton has really lost this country a big opportunity due to his awful performance over the years. Think of it: if a Reagan or FDR or Kennedy or Eisenhower or Churchill had gone to Moscow at this time in world history they would have done something substantial to change the course of events along the following line. 1. The US has a surplus of wheat and low farm prices. Russia has just instructed all their army divisions to start foraging for food on which to survive the winter because there will be none coming from Moscow. Employees all over Russia have gone unpaid for months. So we give some money, not to Russia, but to American farmers and buy their wheat and ship it to Russia. The farmers vote for the President in November and their banks get off their backs. The Russians get to eat. And the US economy gets a solid uptick. Russian relations improve big time. Communism goes into retreat again in Russia. Good stuff. 2. Russia has lots of oil and some US companies have charged in to help get it developed. It must happen if Russia is ever to stabilize. The US companies have found themselves in the midst of a mess of politics and countries they little understand that are boiling with trouble. All those places ending in xxxxistan around the Caspian Sea. Writers say those troubles are all religion. Feathers! It is money and religion, money and food, money and water! For now the world does not need that oil on world markets, but it will probably take at least a few years to get that oil moving and by then it will be needed. In the meanwhile, those nearby oil producing countries are probably pumping more than they would like in fear of all the turmoil to the north. Pull together a coalition to give some other funds to Russia to pay salaries to productive companies only and collateralize that money with Russian oil, a la Mexico. As part of the deal, the Russian Army can go south for the winter and cool all that trouble around the Caspian Sea thereby guaranteeing the collateral. Iran, Kuwait, etc. can ease up on oil production, oil prices tick up a few bucks and lots of oil countries stabilize. Sure there are unfinished parts of this sort of deal. But with the oil producing nations going bust, Russia collapsing, Japan and Asia in a mess, all Clinton could pull off was to talk to some college kids and hug, kiss and dine with that other world looser. To crown this useless effort, on the way home his wife has proposed all homekeepers go on strike for a day. Wow! Is she in touch with the world? And people worried over George Bush's naive surprise when he saw the bar code reader in that Georgetown supermarket. At least George was learning while he was gawking. For that matter, remember how Bush was able to pull together that incredible coalition to go into Kuwait ... and Clinton can barely get the Brits to agree with us in that part of the world today. No, this may well be the worst Presidency ever when one realizes what he has not been able to do because of what he has done to himself - and it is not just Monica - it goes back to include all the weasel deals and slime ball spin meisters and jail birds that he has brought with him - he has destroyed his ability to do anything useful for this country. Given the power this country wields, that has taken a lot of doing. Here we've "won the cold war" and this President has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The economic system that prevailed is starting to rot for lack of a credible proponent. This guy just does not have enough of a foreign policy to cover one small island let alone the world in its current condition. And the world will be paying the price for the next couple of decades. One could hope he would just go away. Before he does, I wonder whether anyone will bring up the matter to treason? As in missile guidance systems being conveyed to the Chinese who will put them in rockets that can knock off a US aircraft carrier ... As in hindering the continuation of the Iraqi inspection teams to the point that they are quitting. With this kind of stuff we might yet see some of our kids coming home in body bags. Floyd