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SARAH McCLENDON, McClendon News: Sir, the Republicans are trying to blame you for the existence of a small airbase at Mena, Ark.

Typical revisionism from McClendon. That airbase existed for decades before Clinton. The "Mena scandal" started with Democrats trying to portray Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Oliver North and the CIA as cocaine smugglers.

When Bush lost the election, a couple of guys (Terry Reed and Gene Wheaton) came up with the bright idea to shift substitute Clinton as the culprit in this phony scandal.

The net result of the Mena scandal was to provide a cover for the Tyson cocaine-smuggling operation in Arkansas, where Clinton received most of his money while he was governor. The whole mess was buried when Clinton pardoned everyone who was successfully prosecuted by Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz. But that led to the Pardons for Sale scandal...

republicans ... ... democrats ... ... the only serious question about them seems to be 'which one is worse?'. Seriously, these two parties don't serve us. The reason why we are being treated as peasants or slaves by a ruling class that is behaving likes kings did 500 years ago is because we elect about 98% of the republicans and the democrats whenever they run for re-election. If we re-elected only 30%, then it would be a whole different ball-game.

Everyone knows McClendon was a very biased liberal. But she had a sense of right and wrong, she was sincere, she had the integrity to ask a question where she knew she was confronting the corrupt about their evil deeds. We used to have a whole country of people who would diligently protect us from this corruption. Now, we have people who pretend it doesn't exist, who wink at it, who are happy if the party they're loyal to is involved in the corruption if only the other party is punished. We are being treated like peasants or slaves and our interests manipulated by our rulers who don't even show their faces to us.

For those who are unaware: At Mena, Arkansas our own government brought in not just large quantities of cocaine, but actually around 80% of all the cocaine that came in during the 80's. To those who are skeptical, why have so many people with real CIA ties say that this happened? Why do so many authors quote un-named sources in important places who confirm it. Why do different ex-CIA people tell corroborating stories? Ex-LAPD people say they remember when CIA came to them and told them they were going to show black gangs how to make crack cocaine. The CIA itself released info in late 98 and in early 99 saying themselves that they had been involved in smuggling drugs into the US for 20 years.

The people who tell these dark stories say that George Bush was the guy in charge. It was done in Clinton's Arkansas because that was the easiest place to get away with it; Clinton was involved as a person who covered up and took payoffs, but he did not create that corruption. A nation that accepts these types of leaders (the Bushes) is a nation headed for big trouble.

Bush/Clinton/Bush, they're all on the same team.

There is always Larry Patterson's testimony which blows away Clinton's "I know nothing" attitude.
"Attic dust"...The Crimes of Mena (Penthouse Magazine - July 1995 issue)
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Clinton made his first public statement on Mena at a press conference in 1991 in which he said " there are apparently linkages to the federal government", he also said, "there are all kinds of questions as to whether Seal had any links to the CIA and whether that banked into the Iran-Contra deal".
Snip...Of Clinton’s reticence to discuss the Mena case, Bill Plante and Micheal Singer of CBS news have written "That a Republican administration was apparently sponsoring a contra aid program in his state and protecting a smuggling ring that flew tons of cocaine through Arkansas was indisputable". One thing is certain, that is that Bill Clinton, on most occasions, has an unusually keen faculty for sniffing out political advantage. It stretches the boundaries of plausibility that he would have missed the possible political bonuses inherent in the Mena situation, that is unless he unless he had a good reason for missing them.

My own reading of the situation is that V.P. George H. W. Bush and Oliver North conducted a cocain-smuggling operation in order to raise money to fund the Contras, who were defunded by an act of a Democratic congress who preferred having a Communist regime in Nicaragua. Noriega was also involved. It was probably a grievous mistake, but their reasons, at least, were patriotic. It was the only way they could come up with to continue their war against a Communist takeover of Latin America that was threatened by Castro and the Sandinistas, absent congressional funding. Ronald Reagan doubtless gave his approval but was not directly involved.

Bill Clinton, governor of Arkansas at the time, took a rakeoff and supervised the operation locally. He seems to have been behind the killing of the boys on the railroad track. It has also been said that $100,000,000 in drug smuggling money disappeared, and that clinton probably was the guy who took it.

Tyson was also heavily involved in smuggling operations at the time, possibly in connection with Mena.

Finally, I don't think George W. Bush is the same as George H. W. Bush. At least I hope not, and so far I have been encouraged by his actions.