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

To: DD™ who wrote (9622)	12/20/1998 9:59:00 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 13994

Another impeachable offense if this is true. JLA

To: DD™ who wrote (9622)	12/20/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: Jack Be Quick	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13994

>> "I'm telling you this was a preordained conclusion. This inspection was a total setup by the United States," Mr. Ritter said. "The U.S. was pressing [the U.N.] to carry out this test. The test was very provocative. They were designed to elicit Iraqi defiance."<< Interesting point for the republicans to be making: it was entrapment. After hearing for months the republican legalisms and legal hair splitting about how it is "legally impossible" for the state to entrap someone in a perjury case, we now learn that the U.N. has an obligation to Iraq not to be "provocative" in its weapons inspections. Looks to me like a little of the old "accuse the accuser" thing going on. >>Mr. Ritter cited two inspections as proof that Mr. Butler wanted to provoke Saddam. Mr. Ritter said Unscom demanded access to Ba'ath Party headquarters, even though an intelligence report that ballistic missile parts were inside was three months old and, as sources told him, no longer accurate.<< Hunh? We provoked them by looking for the prohibited missile parts in a place from where they'd already moved them?! Hunh?? >>Mr. Ritter also said inspectors chose to inspect the building of the Iraqi commission overseeing weapons development even though intelligence reports said it was empty. Indeed, he said, nothing was found.<< Gee, the U.N. inspectors wanted to conduct a weapons inspection in the building housing the Iraqi weapons development commission -- what a provocative idea!! All in all another powerful republican argument for impeaching the president of the United States. (Great job of journalism too.)