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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (21024)	10/22/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Dear Ms Mary--- Great letter... In my world of sophistication my chidren will be back in the house at 7.00 P.M in Paris. In my world of sophistication my children are told to have sex only if they are interested to get married to that girl. In my world of spohistication my children are told that sex entails responsibility as parents we will see to it that privacy and sanctity of our friends daughters are not encrouched by my sons , we are conservative and winking is something we just don't do, it is this duality of character where sleeping around is way of life that I get shocked with people reaction to Clinton. Henry Hyde 'statue of limitation is over kind of remarks' make me feel sick and this is that double standard I refer too. However, I can have best of standards for my self but I know one thing to err is human, I just think forgiveness is in order when someone as known a offender as Clinton errs. I voted for him because he looked good his only foreign policy experience was running Tyson Food's chicken exports to ME, helping his sugar daddy out.. In my world of sophistication I tell my children that although you don't have a sister but never deflower any girl and last but not least I got married to Nasreen at the age of 28 in my world of sophistication I was virgin, sex outside marriage is something unthinkable for me I never wink and I came to Paris at the age of 20- but my parents imparted that respect for woman which I still cherish I don't wink, but even with these conservative standards I think forgiveness is a blessing of highest order, I am fully capable to throw the first stone because for me human nature is prone to mistake hence I wink because I think we are all human and prone to error. I would have never voted for Clinton at the first place, it is this 'taleban ' like inquisition the search of ultimate truth that I call double standards, for me I have standards and I vote ofr a guy who meets my standard when I choose a creep I get what I crave for. Democracy and freedom is something we all like and everone us fight for it, we in East are unlucky to be denied this luxury but Saddam, Pinochet if I am not wrong are products of world largest democracy, we fight against them all the time. Expediency is the name of game and I just don't play it...

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (21024)	10/22/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: Bruce Tiemann	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

"It was my White House that the president begrimed with his seedy trysts and my confidence the he betrayed with his dishonest declarations and my system of justice he mocked with his wormy lies". That may well be... but let's see who REALLY besmirched the white house: Bush disobeyed a DIRECT ORDER from congress to not continue to fund the Contras, but he did so anyway, COUNTLESS PEOPLE DYING in the battles in the Nicaraguan forests, to say nothing of drug smuggling and arms to Iran that paid for it. Nixon was trying to undermine the Democratic party, trying to destroy the political structure of the US. Johnson lied about a non-existant attack as the "reason" why we should get involved in the Viet Nam war, sending tens of thousands of Americans - and many, many more Asians than that, to their deaths in the following years. Clinton has diddled a few women, one half his age, and he has repeatedly denied it. Under oath. Does this really deserve the same level of outrage from the American people, or the world? I don't think so, not by a long shot. But sex sells, and I guess you are a buyer. As are many others. Perhaps a whole new level of sophistication is needed to appreciate the difference between actions and false denials between consenting adults on the one hand, and starting or continuing wars - in which many DIE - based on lies, or manipulating America's democracy itself. Who is ready for this new level of sophistication? Are you?