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Topic: Letter to Clinton
This letter was written to President Clinton by a retired Army Officer.
It is well worth reading.
Dear Mr. President:
It's not about sex. If it were about sex, you would be long gone. Just
like a doctor, attorney, or teacher who had sex with a patient, client, or
student half his age, you would have violated the ethics of your office and would
be long gone.
Just like a Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene McKinney, who, though
found not guilty, was forced to resign amid accusations of sexual abuse.
Remember the Air Force General you wouldn't nominate to be Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff because he freely admitted to an affair almost 15
years before, while he and his wife were separated? Unlike you, he was never
accused of having a starry-eyed office assistant my daughter's age perform oral
sex on him while he was on the phone and his wife and
daughter were upstairs.
If it were about sex, you should be subjected to the same horrible
hearings to which Clarence Thomas was subjected because of the accusations of
Anita Hill. The only accusation then was that he talked dirty to her; he didn't
even leave semen stains on her dress. No, it's not about sex.
It's about character. It's about lying. It's about arrogance. It's
about abuse of power. It's about dodging the draft and lying about it. When
caught in a lie by letters you wrote, you concocted a story that nobody
believed. But we excused it and looked away.
It's about smoking dope, and lying about it. "I didn't inhale," you
said. Sure, and when I was 15 and my buddies and I swiped a beer from an
unwatched refrigerator, we drank from it, but we didn't swallow. "I broke no laws
of the United States," you said. That's right, you smoked dope in England or
Norway or Moscow; where you were demonstrating against the U.S.A. You lied, but
we excused it and looked away.
It's about you selling overnight stays in the White House to any
foreigner or other contributor with untraceable cash. It's about Whitewater, and
Jim and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, and Vincent Foster,
and Gennifer Flowers, and Paula Jones, and Karen Willey, and nearly countless
others.
It's about stealing records from Foster's office while his body was
still warm, putting them in your bedroom and "not noticing them" for two years.
It's about illegal political contributions. It's about you and Al Gore
soliciting contributions and selling influence at Buddhist temples and in
the same Oval Office where Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt led their
countries through the dark days of wars that threatened the very
existence of our nation. But we excused you and looked away.
It's about hiding evidence from Ken Starr, refusing to testify, filing
legal motions, coaching witnesses, obstructing justice, and delaying Judge
Starr's inquiry for months and years, and then complaining that it has gone on
too long. The polls agreed. Thank goodness that Judge Starr didn't read the
polls, play politics, or excuse you and look away. He held on to the evidence
like a tenacious bulldog.
Your supporters say that you've confessed your wrongdoing and asked for
our forgiveness. Listen, what you said on TV the night you testified to the
grand jury was not a confession. Confession in the face of overwhelming
evidence is not a confession at all. Not that it would
make a lot of difference. A murderer who contritely confesses his crime
is still a murderer. When your "confession" didn't sell, even to your
friends, you became more forthcoming. Maybe someday you'll confess more, but
probably not. You've established such a pattern of lying that we can't believe
you anymore. Neither can your cabinet, the Congress, or any of the leaders of
the nations of the world. When a leader's actions defame and emasculate our
country as profoundly as yours have, it's no longer a personal matter, as
you claim. It's no longer a matter between you, your family, and your God.
By the way, speaking of your family, I don't believe for a minute that
Hillary was unaware of your sexual misadventures, abuses of power, and
pattern of lying. She has been a party to your wrongdoing since Whitewater and
Gennifer Flowers, just as surely as she lied about the Rose law firm's
billings and hid the Vincent Foster evidence in your bedroom for two
years.
Why? So she could share in the raw power that your office carries. The
two of you probably lied to Chelsea, but that is a matter among you, your
family, and your God. Remember the sign over James Carvill's desk during the l992
campaign? It said, "It's the economy, stupid!" Well, you should now place
this sign over your desk: "It's about character, stupid!"
No, it's not about sex, Mr. President. If it were, you would be long
gone. It's about character; but we have to live with your filth, lies, and
arrogance for a while longer. Your lies, amorality, and lack of character have been
as pervasive as they have been despicable, so we have no reason to believe
that you will quietly resign and go away .
You'll count on half truths and spin doctors to see you through - the
country be damned. It has always worked before. We excused you and then looked
the other way.
But, no more - we've had enough. You have betrayed us enough. You have
made every elected official, minister, teacher, diplomat, parent, and
grandparent in the country apologize for you and explain away your actions. Now, go
away and let us show them that our country is not without morals. It is just
that you are. Let us show them that America is not the problem - William
Jefferson Clinton is.
Go away, Mr. President - leave us alone. And when you leave, know that
your legacy to the United States of America will be a stain on the Office of
the President, that is as filthy as the stain on Monica's dress. It will take
a lot of scrubbing to make it clean again.
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Eric Jowers, a retired Army Officer, served as public affairs
officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991. He lives in Ozark, Alabama.
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