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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (9756)	10/15/1998 9:27:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

This thing with the sex scandal is all just a coverup for the crap happening in asia. If Starr were really to investigate goings-on in and about the white house, a bunch of republicans would probably go down too. Andy! Want to fill us in on the latest from the grassy knoll? Did you just watch JFK on video? Sounds like Who Killed Vince Foster was just the tip of the iceberg, eh? Then, there's always the Mena drug running, but pinning the blame on Clinton for that when he was a penny ante governor, William Casey was running the CIA, and the NSC was doing whatever it could to fund the Contras, it's all a bit bizarre. Not that I'd deny happenings in Asia, but that's a very long-running saga. Henry Kissinger, secret diplomacy through Pakistan in the original China opening, which required us to stay on the wrong side of another really stupid war that killed a few million, created a few tens of millions of refugees. Concert for Bangladesh and all that. Or is Bill Clinton really the Manchurian Candidate? You might recall from elsewhere that China is a topic I try to follow, but the current "human rights" interest from the Republicans is odd. George Bush didn't exactly go out of his way to express moral outrage over Tianamen Square, and he wasn't pressured much from Republicans to do so. U.S. business interests push for China's agenda here as much as Chinese business interests. Like Japan before them, China mostly sees the U.S. as a big export market, and is quite focused on pushing that agenda. There are too many competing interests on the U.S. side for a coherent agenda to be formed to counter that. I don't like that, but I don't think it's any more sinister than the rest of usual "government for sale" campaign funding mechanism we've evolved. And that funding mechanism is hardly an exclusively Democratic scandal, though you'd think that from the congressional investigations. I hate to say this here, but as far as Monica Lewinsky goes, as Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Cheers, Dan.