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

To: jlallen who wrote (40453)	3/29/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

There was nothing out of bounds in what you said, in fact it was quite dignified and articulate. Even your reproof of Schuh for not acknowledging the problem was measured. Schuh would say that it is obviously going overboard to speak so darkly of the effect on society, but that is a matter of legitimate speculation. I myself think that if the House had not treated it seriously, it would have been very bad. The damage was limited because there was at least a partially appropriate institutional response. Also, I think you are right to underscore the hypocrisy of the "judge not" crowd when it comes to their issues.

To: jlallen who wrote (40453)	3/29/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 67261

U.S. Rejects Albanian Plea for Ground Force (Found this on NetJaz) Kosovo rebels issued a demand to NATO today for ground forces to protect unarmed civilians against Serb attacks, but U.S. officials said no. At a news conference in Brussels, representatives of the Kosovo Liberation Army thanked NATO for four days of air strikes against Serb targets, but said that killing, maiming and intimidation of civilians in Kosovo has increased and that women and children are being rounded up and forced across the border into Albania. ''The United States has no intention of sending ground troops to fight in Kosovo, and the Department of Defense is not doing any planning that would enable such a deployment,'' Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said in Washington. However, NATO announced today that it will begin conducting low-level flights over Kosovo to take out tanks and artillery that are being used against ethnic Albanians. President Clinton, during his weekly radio address today, said NATO will continue its airborne attacks until President Slobodan Milosevic accepts peace ''or we have seriously damaged his capacity to make war.'' Yugoslavian TV reportedly showed the movie ''Wag the Dog,'' a thinly disguised fable about a U.S. president who stages a war to distract the nation from his own troubles. An advisory accompanying the movie said it depicted what American presidents are capable of doing. CNN said Serbian news commentators are comparing Clinton to Hitler. Two Yugoslavian jet fighters were shot down Friday by missiles fired from U.S. aircraft after the Yugoslavian planes entered Bosnian airspace. Officials said Serbs may be trying to extend the war into Bosnia, perhaps by attacking peacekeeping forces there. The independent Belgrade radio station B92, which was forced off the air by Yugoslav authorities when the NATO air strikes began, has moved onto the Internet. It's available as streaming audio from RealGuide, at realguide.real.com. Some of the content is in English. A Minneapolis political consultant has set up a web page at egroups.com for those in the Kosovo/Serbia/Yugoslavia region to post email reports for the world to see. Said one message: ''Just half an hour ago (4:30 p.m.) there was a huge explosion heard in Belgrade, after which the air raid sirens went on. I wish that we have broght down some NATO planes... Our guys say so far 4-5, but no pictures or pilots... So far we only had promises of our guys to produce pictures or show captured pilots.'' The writer dismisses as a fake the report that NATO downed two Yugoslavian planes.