I'm sorry man, I just hadn't noticed Bill Clinton getting tough on terrorists, before last week. Whether or not the timing of the missile attacks, on the assets of Osama bin Laden, Islamic fundamentalist and terrorist, was intentionally connected with Clinton's domestic troubles; these two incidents will be forever joined in controversy.

There are two ways to look at the connection of these two events ( both still ongoing ).

One is that the missile attacks were purely staged events, ala' " Wag The Dog ". I sincerely hope that this is not the case.

The other is that, the Clinton administration just timed an existing plan of action to benefit ( the fiction of ) public opinion polls; obviously, they take great heed in the information garnered by these polls.

Either way, these scenarios require his private army of spinmeisters ( liars ) to work overtime. If you believe the first model, then the waggers had to find someone we could all hate ( hopefully, relatively unknown, so we could have our hate grown and cultivated by these spinmeister-wagger-liars ), and a place we could blow up ( hopefully, rather remote, to promote the delay of the release of information on the damage and produce minimal collateral human casualities ). If you believe the second possibility, the job is to defend the suspicious timing of the event, and find ways to change the subject from the President's problems to the " War on Terrorism ".

Finally, and probably the most disgusting part of this whole mess, is; " why do I even think this 'Wag The Dog' thing is possible".

The answer can be found in the Clinton Whitehouse, itself. Clinton has employed an army of representitives to delay, cover-up, and attack the opposition, since the first investigation of his conduct began. As the investigations got closer to the facts ( and closer to home ), the spinning ( lying ) got hotter and heavier, and attacks on the opposition became more personal and vicious. Advisors like David Gergen were replaced with attack dogs like Morris and Carville. Why couldn't Clinton just open up like Jimmy Carter did? It sure makes it look like Clinton has something to hide! The hideous by-product of this is, that we get numb after seeing his attack-dog-spiners lie night after night on national television, and his announcement of the missile attacks, then reak of the " boy who cried wolf " !

- Bongo ( okay, so maybe you believe it was all just a coincidence... )