Bill Clinton's Choo-Choo

		   by J. Orlin Grabbe

	Jimmy Carter is so disgusted with the Clinton 
administration that, he says, he will not attend the 
Democratic Convention.  This didn't make the headlines 
in my town.

	The ground-swell of non-support for Clinton is 
evidenced in his "whistle-stop" tour.  His choo-choo train 
is scheduled to pause for a political speech in Ashland, 
Kentucky.  But the advance men discovered they couldn't 
assemble a crowd.  So all state employees in the area were 
ordered to attend the Clinton rally during the weekend.  It 
kind of reminds you of all those organizations that were 
ordered to buy copies of Hillary's book *It Takes a Village*.  
	

	The train will arrive in Ashland from Huntington, 
Virginia, then head on to Chillicothe, Ohio, for the next 
stop.  Today's *Washington Post* quotes Clinton as saying, 
"Deadly criminals don't stay within state lines, so neither 
should law enforcement's tools to stop them."  But 
fortunately for Mr. Clinton,  the national registry for sex 
offenders will not be operational for another six months.

	This registry will be set up at the FBI.   The FBI 
will thus be able to enhance the quality of the information 
they sell to lobbying organizations, or feed into the White 
House Big Brother data base (WHODB).  

	Why did Clinton choose to travel by train?  
Presumably it wasn't fear of a missile attack on his plane.  
But the FBI cover-up of  the cause of the downing of 
TWA Flight 800 is unraveling anyway.  One news report 
this week ran an interview with Michael Demas, among 
others, who describes what can only be a missile traveling 
upward and intersecting with TWA 800.  Another news 
report showed a photograph of the missile's flight path.

	Why did the missile glow as it ascended toward 
the plane?  Because the ordinary warhead of the Stinger 
had been replaced with a phosphorous warhead.  (This 
replacement is not difficult.)  Phosphorous incandesces as 
it travels through the atmosphere at high speed. Analysis 
of the photos shows that it was the *head*, not the tail, of 
the missile that was glowing.  A spectral analysis shows 
the head was phosphorous.  

	Why did the missile hit the belly fuel tank and not 
an engine?  Because the phosphorous head is not heat-
seeking.  The Syrian-trained terrorists *wanted* to hit the 
fuel tank in the belly of the plane.  So they changed the 
missile head.  The missile's microprocessors, once locked 
on target, keep the missile on course until it reaches its 
destination.

	One rather suspects that the real "terrorists" that 
Mr. Clinton has to fear will show up in Chicago. Poor 
Chicago.  They so wanted to change their image as a place 
where Democratic conventions turn into disaster, as 
happened in 1968.  Oh, well.  (Aside to Chicago: *Don't 
sweat it.  Keep up the good work*.)

	As I reported in "Clinton and Iran",  Robert 
Strauss lead a delegation of high-level Democrats asking 
Bill Clinton either to resign, or to withdraw his name as a 
candidate for the Democratic nomination.  Otherwise, the 
delegation said, they would attack him from the floor of 
the convention.  We shall see if Mr. Strauss has the 
cojones to carry out his threat. 

	But whether Mr. Bill survives the Democratic 
convention or not, the track ahead is secured by rotten 
cross-ties and missing spikes.  Apparently Clinton made a 
deal with the Israelis:  They are supposed to whip up war 
fever in the media against Iran, and then he will 
bomb the suckers come October.  Isn't every red-blooded 
American ready to die to make the re-election safe for Mr. 
Bill?

	The problem is no one can come up with any 
evidence that Iran was involved either in the Dhahran 
bombing or the downing of TWA Flight 800.  Some of 
the individuals involved in the Dhahran bombing have 
been captured.  They are Saudi nationals without ties to 
Iran.  Thus if Bill Clinton insists on bombing Iran, he will 
escalate the very problem he is claiming to solve.  We 
already have enough problem with Syrian-inspired 
terrorist actions on U.S. soil without adding Iranians to 
the list.  But Mr. Bill doesn't care.  He's so wants to bomb 
those Iranians.

	Hopefully Mr. Clinton will find sufficient energy 
to get through the trials and tribulations ahead.  (Hint to 
Bill:  take L-phenylalanine.  It helps rebuild the brain's 
noradrenaline, which is depleted by excessive use of 
certain stimulants.) 

	A railroad track cut through one corner of the 
ranch I grew up on in West Texas.  When I was very 
young, the Southern Pacific still operated a steam 
locomotive on that line.  The engine fireman would keep 
the boiler pressure up by stoking the furnace with coke.  
When Mr. Bill decided to take the train to Chicago,  I 
think he was confused about the operational fuel involved. 
	 

August 24, 1996
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