celebrate impeachment?

Sharon Winsatt ([email protected])
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:11:20 PST

Thanks for the note of confidence in our system...I get rather tired of
hearing 'Americans are so puritanical'and other accusations. It's a bit
refreshing to hear something positive once in a while. No we're not any
more Puritanical that anyone else...it's just that the people who are
make the most noise. The rest of us pretty much live and let live and
we're not all that loud..
We've suvived the deaths and resignation of presidents and so on..I'm
sure we will survive this...I just wish Clinton would have told the
truth back in January or whenever. Yes there would have been jokes on
the late show and so forth but as long as he made peace with his family
most of us wouldn't have cared.
I'm not celebrating...it is a strange time in our country but like I
said...we've survived worse. We'll get through.

Concerning the war in Bosnia... No one wanted people to suffer but just
one tiny mention of involvement and someone would say "Vietnam"...the
memory of being involved in a internal civil war of another country was
just to fresh. People were afraid of another black wall with thousands
of names...and a divided country.
Of course the situations were different(this time around there was no
draft, for instance) but some would not relent. People were afraid of a
repeat performace I guess. I don't think the people of Europe realized
this when they were asking us to get involved...the American public had
to reassured that we would not be involved in an unending undeclared
conflict..and no one could promise that. That's just one of many
reasons why took so long for the government to do something. The
American people had to be convinced that it would be a limited
involvement.

I beleive Bono will stand by his friend. A real friend doesn't cut and
run at the first sign of trouble and I somehow don't see Bono doing
that.

                             Sharon W.

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