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Elephants &: Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
"We need star schools, not star wars."
Babbitt, the only Trilateral Commis­
sion member in the crew, declared that
Theodore Shackley, had frequent con­
pouring gasoline on the fire. Simon
Donald Gregg-Bush's main security
Biden claimed it was "bankrupting our
nection has come up repeatedly during
strategic defense is tantamount to
called the program a "disaster," and
Who's the dumbest of
them all?
That could well have been the theme
intellectual capital."
So
much
for
the
Democrats'
of the first official debate of the Dem­
vaunted new "pro-defense" image.
took place in Houston, Texas July
date who has a program for dealing
ocratic presidential primaries, which
2.
Broadcast on national public tele­
vision, the event-which featured­
National Review's William Buckley
and
Democratic
Robert
Strauss
Party
as
kingmaker
interviewers­
proved beyond any doubt that the can­
Rodriguez, a longtime operative
of former CIA Director of Operations
Not surprisingly, the one candi­
tact with another Shackley operative,
adviser. The Rodriguez-Gregg con­
the course of the probe.
The cocaine trafficker, Ramon
Milian-Rodriguez, told the committee
that the purpose of the drug cartel's
payoff to the Contras was to bribe the
with AIDS, and who not only is the
CIA and through it, the Drug Enforce­
United States, but one of its architects,
drug runners. He said he acted on be­
event. Obviously, the contrast be­
controls roughly
principal defender of the
sm in the
was deliberately excluded from the
tween Lyndon H. LaRouche and the
ment Administration, to go easy on
half of the Medellin Cartel, which
75% of the cocaine
entering the United States.
didates (at least those sanctioned by
dwarfs would have been too much.
label "the Seven Dwarfs."
pundits and columnists differ. Dukak­
the cocaine-Contra link, this could
more than the participants-Sen. Joe
thing he said, but because he appeared
who has been deeply involved in the
Paul Simon, Massachusetts Gov. Mi­
wife's diet pills.) Babbitt "lost," again
drugs." Not only did Gregg meet with
the
party officialdom) truly deserve the
The "debate" consisted of little
Biden, Rep. Richard Gephardt, Sen.
And who won the debate? The
is was given high marks-not for any­
"relaxed." (Maybe he's borrowing his
Should it tum out that Gregg knew
of Felix Rodriguez's alleged role in
spell very bad trouble for his boss,
Reagan
administration's
"war
on
chael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, Arizo­
not because of anything he said, but
Rodriguez on a regular basis, to dis­
Gore-taking the expected pot shots
continuously for the duration. What's
but Bush himself met with Rodriquez
na Gov. Bruce Babbitt, and Sen. Al
at the Reagan administration, and
talking endlessly of "leadership." But
of substantive solutions to the nation's
major problems, this gaggle had little
to say.
How to cure the country's eco­
because his head bobbed up and down
eminently clear is that the real loser of
the debate was the American elector­
ate, which is once again being pre­
"cut defense spending." How to deal
with the AIDS epidemic? The candi­
dates carefully skirted this political hot
the "best."
Bush linked to Contra
drug-running
It was only a matter of time before
George Bush's connections to Iran­
In the discussion on the Strategic
to-with a vengeance-in late June,
Defense Initiative, they vied with each
clared him
a
"patriot."
Gephardt: absolutely no
mandatory AIDS testing
potato-leadership apparently doesn't
extend that far.
several times, and has publicly de­
sented with fools, and told to select
nomic ills? The standard response
ranged from "balance the budget" to
cuss operations in Central America,
gate caught up with him. They began
when a convicted cocaine trafficker
Democratic
presidential
hopeful
Richard Gephardt seems to believe that
courting the homosexual lobby, is
more important than protecting the
health of the American population.
During a July
6 visit to New York
City-the AIDS capital of the United
States-Gephardt denounced those
who advocate mandatory AIDS test­
other to come up with the strongest
told a Senate subcommittee that he had
who has been endorsed by Soviet agent
from the notorious Colombian co­
rected toward research and education
friend, termed the sm "profoundly
iers for the dirty money were provided
real challenge of education and re­
"conceptually flawed." Dukakis said,
ez).
told Mayor Ed Koch.
denunciation of the program. Gore,
Armand Hammer, a long-time family
mistaken." Jesse Jackson said it was
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supplied
$10 million to the Contras
caine cartel, and disclosed that cour­
by Felix Rodriguez (a.k.a Max Gom­
ing, saying that energies should be di­
instead. "Testing diverts us from the
search," the Missouri Congressman
National
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