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Unity, New Hampshire, June 27, 2008

The present election campaign of the Democrats in the US has led to unpleasant mud-wrestling mainly driven by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. But in pleasing or appeasing her potential voters Clinton recently used too strong expressions on what she would do with Iran if becoming the next president. It is a conditional phrase, of course. If…, then…. So, the question in an interview in ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 was what she would do if Iran would attack Israel with nuclear weapons. "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel). "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them. "That's a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic." In the meantime, Tehran h...

About 10 years ago, the infamous impeachment attempt of former President Bill Clinton took place. The public scandal started when Linda Tripp provided Kenneth Starr with her surreptitiously recorded tapes of talks with Monica Lewinsky. On February 12, 1999 the attempt to remove Clinton from office eventually failed. Clinton’s impeachment was based on an alleged, negligible sin; not of having sex with a trainee, but rather not admitting that in public. His prosecutor Kenneth Starr as well as Monica Lewinsky later vanished from the scene. Starr himself was applying the morals of a hypocrite. When focusing on tackling foreign affairs, Clinton was certainly one of America’s weakest presidents. Only 5 weeks after his inauguration, on February 26, 1993, the New York’s World Trade Center was shaken by an enormous bomb blast in the underground garage. The explosion yielded a 60 meter wide crater in the car park. One may wonder what Clinton would have done if the Twin Towers had actually co...