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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Gamble <pgamble@xxxxxxxxx>
To: RealTraders Discussion Group <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, December 19, 1998 12:32 AM
Subject: Current events.
>For what it is worth, here is the last paragraph of the leader from the
>London Times of
>Friday 18 December. It could probably be duplicated across the world. Last
>time I
>put a European point of view, it was not appreciated by some. But it might
>be worth
>listening to the residual wisdom of a country whose world dominance was not
>so long ago
>the equal of America's today, and just might be worth reflecting that the
>rest of the world
>thinks that America has gone mad.
>
>'Yesterday's decision by Republican leaders to go ahead with the Clinton
>impeachment hearings today is, in this grave context, highly irresponsible.
>Whatever his views on Mr Clinton, it is folly for Trent Lott, the Senate
>Majority Leader, implicitly to have questioned the integrity of his fellow
>Republican William Cohen, who as Defence Secretary has sworn that the only
>factor at stake in this decision was the national interest. Norman
>Schwarzkopf, the Gulf War commander, endorses that military judgment.
>President Clinton's necessary authority as Commander-in-Chief has been
>called in question just when it is most required. This untimely display of
>partisan politics serves neither justice, nor respect for the American
>Constitution, nor American leadership in the world. '
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