Posted by discusted with events on February 13, 1999 at 11:05:49:
I recieved this in my mail and thought I'd share this with you.
This letter was written by Eric Jowers, a retired Army Officer, who
served as public affairs officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991. He
now lives in Ozark, Alabama.
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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 that Clarence Thomas
was subjected to 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, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker
and Vincent Foster and Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones and Karen Willey
and nearly countless others. It's about stealing the records from
Foster's office while his body was still warm and 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 wrong doings and asked for our forgiveness. Listen, what
you said on TV the night you testified to the grand jury was not a
confession; 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 among
you, your family and your God.
By the way, 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 wrong doings since Whitewater and Jennifer
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! 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 looked the other way. No more, we've had
enough. You 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 was not without morals. It was just that you
were.
Let us show them that America was not the problem. William
Jefferson Clinton was. 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.
If you agree with this letter send it to as many people as
possible. If you don't agree with this letter, delete it and go bury your
head in the sand like millions of other selfish Americans.