[Lancey Howard]

I maintain it's the former, and if by exposing the OKC-Iraq connection harm is done to the Presidency by implicating the traitor/rapist/murderer Bill Clinton, then so be it.

I agree. The failure of the Republicans to talk about Scumbag's crimes, and even the stuff some of them bothered to review in the Ford Building, makes you wonder what kind of dirt the Clintons are keeping handy.

[Sal]

And considering that Clinton seems completely unconcerned about even the possibility of Bush letting the cat out of the bag leads one to wonder, as the Freeper Lancey Howard suggested above, what sort of dirt on Dubya the former scumbag-in-thief has in his own possession.

Make that both Clintons, and I don't necessarily think the dirt is on Dubya. Remember that President Bush #41 has made statements VERY often in public about how our intelligence organizations have to associate with "bad people" and sometimes do "bad things" in order to keep the country safe. (Current events make that look a lot more reasonable than it might have in the past.) Now remember that during the #41 administration Governor Clinton was involved in an operation to help the Contras in their fight against South American Communists.

Pretty unusual for a lefty rat, but it turns out there was money in it for him. The report on the CIA that came out at the beginning of #42's impeachment trial made it clear that certain Contra officials had been raising money by selling dope during the '80s. The report also mentions that during #41 the CIA was given dispensation to turn a blind eye to things like allies' selling dope if the success of such allies was critical to national security...

Bottom line IMO is that weapons were moving south out of Mena, Arkansas and the planes were coming back with a payload. I believe Clinton personally profited from that trade. I also believe that #41 believed that this had to be ignored in order to defeat Communism. Whether this is right/wrong or good/bad can be argued, but it's certainly different from the Scumbag.

I absolutely think that the report on the CIA was released to tell the Republicans that if they actually convicted #42, that he'd spill all the information, and that #41 and other Republicans would pay a price for KNOWING ABOUT the trade (even though the Clintons were PROFITING FROM same).

I think this is still the hang up on President Bush #43's ability/willingness to expose the Clinton mafia's many crimes including treason. I think he should and I wish he would, but this is a guy who values loyalty above most things and I doubt he's going to expose his own father to this much trouble.