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

To: BORIS BADENUFF who wrote (26890)	1/10/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: jimpit	Respond to of 67261

If the SOB did sell us out, he ought to be drawn and quartered... after he's removed from office by the Senate.

To: BORIS BADENUFF who wrote (26890)	1/10/1999 1:55:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Respond to of 67261

Wow. Looks like Clinton might be a treasonous liar. The only thing I'd wonder about all of this is whether it's more about Clinton's quest for money and disdain for national security, or the United States military-industrial complex's need for an enemy to justify a new round of military buildup just in time to correct a flattening economy. People tend to forget that the Reagan years boom was due more to the largest peace-time military buildup in history than anything else. And that boom and the confidence it inspired (combined with the boom in the computing industries) probably has more to do with our current economy than anything Clinton has done. But nothing lasts forever. Continued prosperity seems to require overpaying as many executives as possible. Since the computer industry seems to have at least slowed its growth, and is probably about to start eating its own tail, this will once again best be accomplished by building multi-billion dollar weapon systems. But to justify that, we have to have a viable enemy. Iraq obviously isn't going to fill the bill, and Russia is in too much disarray to pose the sort of constant, ongoing threat necessary to make enough people scared enough to pay for more boondoggles. So along comes China. Or maybe Clinton's just a lying money-grubbing opportunist. Either way, 1999's going to be an interesting year. -BLT