From: ae642@yfn.ysu.edu (Kelley Miller)
Subject: Re: Kremlin_Gate: Bill Clinton in Moscow during Viet Nam.
Reply-To: ae642@yfn.ysu.edu (Kelley Miller)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 07:06:16 GMT


In a previous article, john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore) says:
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>I find it ironic that I have to defend myself against attacks by literally
>dozens here on the net simply for asking about Clinton's activities, for
>mentioning that he lied about them, and for expressing my opinion that
>his anti-war activities in a foreign country were bad. Why do such things
>bring up so many vitriolic, personal attacks? What's with you guys, anyway?

What's with us?  I can't speak for the other contributors to this thread,
but I can speak for myself.

You have gone on and on and on about Clinton's activities when he was a 22
year old college student.  While I will admit that, at the worst, not
presenting this information voluntarily was a lapse in judgment, you maintain
that his activities were bad.  No such thing is true.  He chose to demonstrate,
he chose to go the the soviet union.  You take the two and combine them into
something that, while it is not a direct accusation, is severe innuendo 
stating that he was involved in nothing less then high treason.  You back this
up by saying, well, if he wasn't, why did he lie?

A clue:politicians lie.  All of them.  It's endemic of the species.  Our job 
as citizens is to pick through the politics and find the truth.  That's the
way the system works.

Now, I asked this before, I ask it again.  Clinton is guilty of deception
by omission.  That is not a lie, it is simply failure to tell the complete
truth.  By that standard, you could accuse him of lying by not telling us all
that he broke a window with a baseball when he was 8 years old, without first
having someone ask him about it.  When he was asked if he had gone to Russia,
he said, he did.  It should have been the end of the issue.  Instead, he was
accused of lying to us, because he did not volunteer the information when he
got in the race, and this "omission" became overblown to the point where he
was being referred to as anti-American, kgb, Tokyo rose, and any number of
similar accusations.  You buy into this line.

Conversely, George Bush has denied for several years any knowledge of Iran/
Contra.  Yet today, he admitted that he knew about it all along.  Now, which
carries more weight, a deception of omission by Clinton, or deception by
deliberate untruth, by bush, and even if you equate them at all, why aren't you
attacking Bush as hard and unrelentlessly as you have Clinton.

Now, you have stated that you are a Viet Nam veteran.  For that I respect
you, and honer your service to our country.  Likewise, I respect and honor
Gov. Clinton for standing up for his belief, and doing what was necessary
to avoid the draft.

But what I see from you, and I mean no disrespect, is that you are so hung
up on the fact that you did what you saw as your duty, but Clinton did not,
and as such, by definition, Clinton should not be trusted to do the job.

The war in Viet Nam is over.  You do no honor to those who did not come
back by raking up this kind of turmoil.

Please, your vote is your own, and you must use it as you see fit.  But don't
try to poison our choice by making false accusations against it.  



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