Big Mick, I'm sure that DougR can speak for himself, but when I read Guests contribution, I regarded it as a complete thread creep and totally bogus on the facts.

1. Just to name a few, it was a complete lie to state that the previous Special Prosecutors were investigating crimes and Starr was not; lying to a Federal Grand Jury is a crime. Thus the lie.

2. The statement that Reagan admitted to Walsh he had authorized the Iran-Contra exchanges is a lie. He never did, and numerous others testified to that issue.

3. His extensive use of the words "extra legal proceedings" is a lie. Virtually everything Starr did was approved by the Supreme Court, after extensive litigation by the Clintonites on every issue. That's called legal.

4. His discussion of the Boland Act is a complete lie; the Sandanistas were never duely elected, and once the elections were held, they lost. You might want to rethink the words "patently offensive" in light of this...

5. The most patently offensive thing done during the Iran Contra affair was the requirement that a person under indictment by the Federal Government, should be compelled to by a Democrat Congress to testify in front of the Nation, against his own Constitutional rights. I personally cannot think of a more egregious abuse of power than that, and as we both know, the Supreme Court said as much.

Again, we are not talking about a view or opinion here; you yourself call them facts. I see no reason why any one would want to spend the time attempting to answer patent lies, and it is that this point, I go to spend my holiday...