- This letter was written to President
Clinton by a retired Army Officer...
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- Dear Mr. President:
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- 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 the
Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene McKinney,who though found not guilty,
was forced to resign amid accusations of sexual abuse.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- "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.
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- It's about you selling overnight stays
in the White House to any foreigner or other contributor with untraceable
cash.
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- 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 countless others.
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- 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.
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- 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 country through the dark days of wars that
threatened the very existence of our nation. But we excused you and looked
away.
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- It's about hiding evidence from Ken Starr,
refusing to testify, filing legal motions, coaching witnesses, obstruction
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 God
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.
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- Your supporters say that you've confessed
your wrongdoings and asked for our forgiveness. Listen, what you said
on TV the night you testified to the grand jury was not a confession.
Confession in the face of 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.
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- Maybe someday you'll confess more, but
probably not. You've established such 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.
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- When a leader's actions defame and emasculate
our country as profoundly as yours have, it no longer a personal matter,
as you claim. It's no longer a matter among you, your family and your
God.
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- 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 wrongdoings 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- ____________
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- Eric Jowers, a retired Army Officer,
served as public affairs officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991. He
lives in Ozark, Alabama.
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