Both the timing and the policy are subject to question. It was immediately clear that Lott should not have said this. So on Thursday, Lott declared that he did support the action, did not suspect any connection with the impeachment process, and had not meant to imply otherwise merely by uttering words whose plain meaning and universal interpretation was the exact opposite. What made the Lott incident especially enjoyable is that Republicans all rallied round the obvious meaning of his original statement even as Lott himself was denying it. Paul Gigot, for example, got trapped midspin-cycle.
Hawks are now doves and vice versa.
Clinton is thus responsible not only for his own lies and hypocrisies but also for those of his enemies. No doubt he is somehow to blame for Iran-Contra too. The Web is an ocean of material about the Clinton scandal, of course, and a sizable lake of Iran-Contra stuff as well. Here is the full final report of Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. Here is the home page of the National Security Archive, a nonprofit organization that specializes in discovering and analyzing historically important government documents.