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To: Monty Lenard who wrote (2365)	12/20/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

White House at bay in mistress of all battles telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000387808654031&rtmo=Q39OHaOR&atmo=99999999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/98/12/20/wclin220.html&pg=/et/98/12/20/wclin220.html As one of America's most distinguished pornographers, Mr Flynt was affronted to discover Mr Clinton being given the credit for such sleazy behaviour. But that is what it has come to in the Lyin' King's Washington: you can't tell the difference between the President of the United States and the publisher of Hustler. Somehow all political life has now taken on the character of Mr Clinton's sexual proclivities. "There is going to be a trial," declared Gloria Borger on CBS News. "It may not go to completion." "Completion" is not a legal term but the Starr Report's formulation for what the President, er, rarely reaches. Likewise, for a couple of days we had a war, but that too is not going to completion. That's why Saddam, also taking his cue from Mr Clinton's sexual behaviour, declined to reciprocate. Why waste your own men and resources when the Great Satan's just going through the motions for a few nights? Though both men would be insulted by the comparison, they're not dissimilar: one scoffs at Unscom inspection requests, the other at the Independent Counsel's subpoenas. One pretends to be surprised when chemical weapons suddenly turn up, the other when Whitewater billing records or White House coffee-morning videos suddenly turn up. The only difference is that Bill Clinton's weapon of mass destruction has been turned against him and that Saddam isn't so foolish as to let UN inspectors come across a cocktail dress with a telltale anthrax stain. ........ Meanwhile, Mr Clinton is running out of distractions. What was interesting this week was how quickly the novelty of bombing Saddam wore off. Forced to choose between air strikes on Baghdad and the ongoing consequences of his glandular urges, caught between Iraq and a hard place, most news organisations quickly decided the real story was the impeachment.