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In his letter to the ROTC commander, Clinton admitted "loathing
the military,"  yet now he is about to send the military into the
most dubious kind of battle - air raids against a
pain-in-the-butt little country in a big volatile region.
You'd think a man who hated the Vietnam War would have learned
about the uselessness of air raids and their tendency to kill
civilians.
It would be nice if this all works out without finding out what
happens when a 2,000-lb. bomb blows up a bunker full of anthrax.
The war hasn't even started, and already we have a new military
toy with the name  "bunker buster," which is cute unless you
happen to be a civilian told by Saddam to take shelter in the
bunker.
Perhaps the bombs won't have to be dropped. Perhaps Clinton can
bring Saddam to his knees voluntarily - a highly developed
Clinton skill, apparently.  Which brings up that  "Wag the Dog" 
thing.
There doesn't seem to be any urgency to destroy Iraq's "weapons
of mass destruction"  (as if we don't have any).  Why not wait
until the woman in the beret goes away before bombing the bad guy
in the beret?
Never mind Clinton's saber-rattling. Presidential spokesman Mike
McCurry was on to something this week when he said that Clinton's
relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky may
turn out to be a  "very complicated story."
McCurry said:  "We are not in a position to provide a full and
complete account, so the art is to make sure everything we say is
truthful and credible." In other words, Lewinsky hasn't spoken
yet, so Clinton doesn't know what lies to tell. Meanwhile,
there's nothing like a nice little war to preempt the Monica
Show.  "No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary
democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and
kill and die in a war they may oppose, a war which even possibly
may be wrong, a war which, in any case, does not involve
immediately the peace and freedom of the nation."
The young Bill Clinton wrote that. When an older Bill Clinton
comes to Stanford on Feb. 26 for Parents' Day, perhaps he should
see what a good Bay Area anti-war demonstration looks like.
The only ones he took part in 30 years ago were in England.
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Interesting opinion coming from San Francisco.
T.E. - San Diego Ilks (Sgt. at Arms)
... Liberal Rule  #2 - When caught lying, go into hysterics
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