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

To: Les H who wrote (7632)	10/2/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Not exactly Les. Clinton himself obviously has little to do with world economies, however, the world is in the midst of a severe financial crises and we now have the specter of a presidential impeachment process looming. The last thing this economy needs right now is having the Congress' attention directed away from passing for example, much needed tax cuts to help stimulate our economy as it continues to suffer from global financial woes. It is apparent that Bill Clinton thinks the congress will give him a pass on his impeachable offenses in the hope that the country will blame them for "fiddling" while their 401K's "burn". This country's best hope is a Republican landslide in November to embolden the Democratic "leadership" to force Clinton to hand over the WH keys. Markets will respond favorably to Republican gains even if Clinton somehow manages to slither on his belly to the end of his term. If he continues to veto needed legislation, he'll be view as a mortally wounded obstructionist president and that will have serious repercussions for the Dems in 2000. Hey, I'm starting to like the guy more and more! Hang in there Bill! <g> bp

To: Les H who wrote (7632)	10/2/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 13994

>> Clinton has little to do with the stock market, up or down. LT that's true. But ST Clinton's inability to lead and status as an object of universal derision is undermining confidence in the US and that's reflected in the market. Only his removal can end that so we can move on.

To: Les H who wrote (7632)	10/2/1998 11:44:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 13994

electronic Telegraph 9/24/98 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Former Clinton CIA Chief blames Clinton for foreign policy failure that may lead to world crisis: In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Woolsey gave a caustic assessment of the President he served until his abrupt resignation in January 1995. Dismissing Bill Clinton as a "tactician", he said the foreign policy of the administration was driven by opinion polls, short-term PR calculations and the spin-cycle rhythm of an election campaign. "If you want to know how they make decisions, all you need do is watch the War Room," he said, referring to the documentary of Mr Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. During his two years as Director of Central Intelligence, Mr Woolsey managed to secure only two conversations with Mr Clinton. "It wasn't that I had a bad relationship with him. I just didn't have any relationship," said Mr Woolsey. He believes the damage to the American national interest has been substantial, though largely hidden from view. Mr Woolsey compared the global scene to the late 1920s when inchoate foreign threats were ignored, played down, and ultimately allowed to escalate. He said US policy towards Iraq was "feckless and flaccid". Mr Clinton's midnight bombing of an empty building in Baghdad in 1993 was a "laughable" gesture, an inadequate response to an Iraqi assassination plot against former President Bush. "We should have hit the instruments of state power," he said. "It was exhibit number one of a paper tiger." Exhibit number two was the failure to intervene to stop the Erbil massacre in northern Iraq in 1996. Exhibit number three had been the collapse of the UN weapons inspection regime, blamed by Mr Woolsey on the capricious manouevres of the Russians and the French, as well as the incompetence of the Clinton administration. "We've not been willing to take on the biggest bully in the Mid-east playground, and you can't keep giving the bully a free pass." The danger was growing because Saddam Hussein had wrapped himself in the flag of Islam. Mr Woolsey compared the gambit with Stalin's tactical exploitation of Christianity during the Second World War. Cementing an alliance with Sunni fundamentalists, Saddam was successfully invoking the idea of a "new Caliphate". To complicate matters further in the Islamic world, Mr Clinton had damaged relations with Pakistan by firing missiles at five camps in Afghanistan in an anti-terrorist strike last month. Two of the camps were training Pakistani guerrillas for operations in Kashmir. Mr Woolsey said Yevgeny Primakov, Russia's new prime minister, a former KGB boss, was "terrible". Calling him an antediluvian, "zero-sum" communist, he said Mr Primakov could be expected to "kowtow to the most unreconstructed elements of the military industrial complex" and would seek to hurt Western interests wherever possible. Mr Clinton had staked everything on Boris Yeltsin and was now inextricably associated with this grand failure. The risk was that Russia would turn increasingly nasty and xenophobic. "I'm troubled by the parallels with the 1930s. I can see Russia playing the role of Weimar Germany," he said, adding that the Weimar Republic, a democracy under the rule of law, with a viable economy, was in far better shape than Russia today. "The 1930s were not inevitable, they could have been avoided. But not even Churchill could see what was happening. He was cutting the Royal Navy budget when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. "And here we are now, cutting the devil out of our defence budget. We need to be careful." telegraph.co.uk:80/