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_______________REACTIONS TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH (01/20/99)
	Not all of us spend 24/7 trying to find new ways to insult our president. But apparently Elaine Donnelly, from the Center for Military Readiness, does. When given a chance to put aside her personal feelings and intelligently address the specifics of Clinton's defense spending proposal, she instead insists that our military readiness is compromised by the attempts of a middle-aged man to hide an illicit affair. If this scary assertion is true (she says it is, and she's the expert), I'd suggest she direct the efforts of her "Center" toward hard proof. I don't know how we can face vicious dictators and soulless terrorists if our troops are trembling at the lies of an adulterer. Of course, if she had really been able to take what was proposed and prove it bad, she would have done so; and to the intellectually lazy, ad hominem rant must substitute for reason. I do hope that she will study the issues until she is capable of addressing direct questions with informed opinion, even against a backdrop of personal enmity. She might even take a cue from the most publicly reviled man in recent history, President Clinton, for that strength of character. -- Bob Wands
_______________CLINTON'S STAR WARS BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS (01/19/99)
	Just a brief thank you for the Christopher Hitchens article against the Nazi war machine. The fascist gangsters running the Evil Empire should not only be defunded, they should be arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law for their massive war crimes (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Panama, Iraq) and crimes against humanity (CIA death squads). Not to mention the acts of war against the American people (JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations). Hitchens, Alan Nairn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman and Michael Parenti are among the greatest journalists and intellectuals that we have. Publish more of their writings. -- Greg Durka SALON | Jan. 25, 1999

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