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

To: j g cordes who wrote (9967)	1/3/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: Big D	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Sorry, but I trust Scott Ritter's assessment of the timing and the motive for the bombing. BTW, what's been accomplished? We've spent $3,763,491.32 so far and still counting. Wag the Dog" Just hours before the bombing began, Major Scott Ritter, a U.S. Marine officer who had served in UNSCOM, informed the New York Post that key elements of Butler's report were essentially dictated by Bill Clinton's National Security Council. According to Ritter, U.S. officials had told him that impeachment was among the considerations dictating the timing of new inspections in Iraq. "What ¼ Richard Butler did last week with the inspections was a set-up," insisted Major Ritter. "This was designed to generate a conflict that would justify a bombing." A supplemental report filed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, by way of contrast, contended that Iraq had offered "the necessary level of cooperation" with international inspectors. Major Ritter, who resigned his UN position in disgust last August to protest the Clinton Administration's appeasement of Saddam, told the Post, "If you dig around, you'll find out why Richard Butler yesterday ran to the phone four times. He was talking to his [U.S.] National Security adviser. They were telling him to sharpen the language in the report to justify the bombing." The inspection exercise itself was entirely pointless, according to Ritter: "UNSCOM knew there were no weapons at the sites they were sending their inspectors to. We've been doing this for seven years. We know that when the inspectors leave, Iraq shuffles up the deck, moves the weapons. Why then did the U.S. urge these inspectors to carry out immediate inspections?" Concludes Ritter, "You have no choice but to interpret this as ‘Wag the Dog.' You have no choice."

To: j g cordes who wrote (9967)	1/3/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: Andrew Martin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Jgc. I hear ya but since Clinton blew-up an unguarded Sudanese pharmaceutical factory (which produced 50% of the country's medicines) on the very day Monica Lewinsky testified to the grand jury it's extremely suspect. The intel is not in yet about the Afghan strikes but since that whole country is full of armed militants it'd be kinda hard to miss some 'radical fundamentalists'. Now consider the Fascism-inspired 'Operation Desert Fox' (aka, Erwin Rommel) bracketed the impeachment proceeding and the conclusion is obvious. It should be of interest the Russians recalled their ambassador in response to the latest operation. They don't see the humor in Fascism.