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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (12864)	9/27/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

He's a mere hedonist looking to gratify his appetites. Well there you go. Make my point. Hedonism is no crime. The country will not remove him from office for that or the thinly constructed perjury and obstruction charges. If he had tried to take money or subvert the government in any way, I guess he would be a goner. But this? Every one is guilty of hedonism. Give me an unlimited budget and I bet I could indict you on that. (My inquiry would not cost the taxpayers much at all, as I confess.)

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (12864)	9/27/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<Benedict Arnold was the hero of Saratoga>> Not entirely. The British plan at Saratoga was for General Burgoyne to march west from Boston and rendezvous with General Gates, who was to bring his troops north from New York. In a rather stellar example of the inefficiency that plagued the aristocrat-ridden British bureaucracy, the orders were never sent to Gates. Burgoyne moved, Gates didn't; Burgoyne's forces were outnumbered and in hostile country and had very little chance. The real hero of the American revolution was British ineptitude, and the fact that many of the competent people in the British armed forces had no interest in fighting the colonists. Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly" has a superb essay on the subject. Steve