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Hillary
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Torture? What Torture!
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Telling
it like it is
Torture? What Torture!
It all depends on what you mean! As a child I remember the famous BBC program 'The Brains Trust' being aired on Friday night. The most famous member of the trust was Professor Joad. The format was not unlike ESPN question and answer sessions of today. Rather intellectual for its time, it drew an audience of millions, including my father and myself. When the good professor was asked a 'difficult' question he would respond with his catch phrase. ''It all depends,'' he would say, ''on what you mean.'' Now where have we heard that before? Seems like only yesterday we heard a certain William Jefferson Clinton spout something similar when asked some difficult questions about what constituted sexual intercourse.
Only the other day Presidential hopefuls were quizzed about torture. One would imagine they'd never heard the word before. Hillary R. Clinton seemed indignant. The record shows that HRC has certainly flip-flopped on this issue. Her statements have varied in rhetoric and content quite considerably over the past months. At one point she was heard to cry something to the effect that it was almost insulting to have to answer that question. More recently she has been much more evasive. Now she would permit whatever is ''lawful' and might stomach activity in the ''ticking time -bomb' scenario. Why has she changed her tune?
'Eardleyfactor' believes it knows the answer.
In our last article we shared our premonition that matters could not be allowed drag on in the Middle East. The enemy was at the gate and the 'dogs of war' were getting restless. When Rudi Giuliani was equally evasive about 'waterboarding' (simulated drowning), and he was allowed to get away with it without too much fuss. John McCain was let off the hook for his tasteless parody of the 'Beach Boys' 'Barbara Ann'. Remember 'Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran' ? A mild rebuke was all that he received.
Why is it different for Senator Clinton? The factor analysis demonstrates that she is already the unstoppable Democratic candidate for President. We forecast this more than a year ago and we have never wavered. The truth is that the situation is now so serious for our country that even liberal HRC needs to present a warlike image. Any suggestion she would be soft on terror would scupper her chances of landing the big prize. She knows that the Republicans have all been briefed on the seriousness of the situation and the inevitability of action against Iran and possibly Syria. However, that bit of the equation may be left to the Israelis.
We repeat our forecast that there exists still a high probability for
an 'event' taking place in the USA in the not too distant future which
would act as the trigger for such operations. Today's non farm payroll
numbers will not be enough to stem the tide. The dollar's inexorable slide
continues. When Citibank can't make it, who can? Merrill Lynch ex- boss
O'Neal certainly couldn't. He was lucky. He walked away with more than
$150 million. All the people who will have their properties repossessed
won't be so lucky.
Even Mrs. Clinton may have to face this unpalatable truth. When times
are this bad almost anything goes, even torture.
Robert Jack Eardley, M.D.
Robert Francis Eardley, Cert. Ed., B.A.
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