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Dear Mr. President: 


It's not about sex. If it were about sex, you would be long gone. Just 
like a doctor, attorney or teacher who had sex with a patient, client or 
student half his age, you would have violated the ethics of your office 
and would be long gone.
Just like a Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene McKinney. who, though found 
not guilty, was forced to resign amid accusations of sexual abuse. 

Remember the Air Force General you wouldn't nominate to be Chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff because he freely admitted to an affair almost 15 
years before, while he and his wife were separated? Unlike you, he was 
never accused of having a starry-eyed office assistant my daughter's age 
perform oral sex on him while he was on the phone and his wife and 
daughter were upstairs.

If It were about sex, you should be subjected to the same horrible 
hearings that Clarence Thomas was subjected to because of the accusations 
of Anita Hill. The only accusation then was that he talked dirty to her. 
He didn't even leave semen stains on her dress.
No, It's not about sex. It's about character. It's about lying. It's about 
arrogance. It's about abuse of power. It's about dodging the draft and 
lying about It. When caught in a lie by letters you wrote, you concocted a 
story that nobody believed. 
But we excused it and looked away.

It's about smoking dope, and lying about It. "I didn't Inhale," you said. 
Sure, and when I was 16 and my buddies and I swiped a beer from an 
unwatched refrigerator, we drank from it, but we didn't swallow. "I broke 
no laws of the United States," you said. That's right, you smoked dope in 
England or Norway or Moscow, where you were demonstrating against the 
U.S.A.
You lied, but we excused it and looked away.

It's about you selling overnight stays in the White House to any foreigner 
or other contributor with untraceable cash. It's about Whitewater and Jim 
and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Vincent Foster 
and Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey and nearly 
countless others. 

It's about stealing the records from Foster's office while his body was 
still warm and putting them in your bedroom and "not noticing them" for 
two years.

It's about illegal political contributions. It's about you and Al Gore 
soliciting contributions and selling influence at Buddhist temples and in 
the same Oval Office where Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt led 
their countries through the dark days of wars that threatened the very 
existence of our nation.
But we excused you and looked away.

It's about hiding evidence from Ken Starr, refusing to testify, filing 
legal motions, coaching witnesses, obstructing justice and delaying Judge 
Starr's inquiry for months and years, and then complaining that it has 
gone on too long. The polls agreed. Thank goodness that Judge Starr didn't 
read the polls, play politics or excuse you and look away. He held on to 
the evidence like a tenacious bulldog.

Your supporters say that you've confessed your wrong doings and asked for 
our forgiveness. Listen, what you said on TV the night you testified to 
the grand jury was not a confession. Confession in the face of 
overwhelming evidence is not a confession at all. Not that it would make a 
lot of difference. A murderer who contritely confesses his crime is still 
a murderer.
When your "confession " didn't sell, even to your friends, you became more 
forthcoming. Maybe someday you'll confess more, but probably not. You've 
established such a pattern of lying that we can't believe you anymore. 
Neither can your cabinet, the Congress or any of the leaders of the 
nations of the world. When a leader's actions defame and emasculate our 
country as profoundly as yours have, it's no longer a personal matter, as 
you claim. It's no longer a matter among you, your family and your God.
By the way, I don't believe for a minute that Hillary was unaware of your 
sexual misadventures, abuse of power and pattern of lying. She has been a 
party to your wrongdoings since Whitewater and Gennifer Flowers just as 
surely as she lied about the Rose law firm's billings and hid the Vincent 
Foster evidence in your bedroom for two years. Why? So she could share in 
the raw power that your office carries. The two of you probably lied to 
Chelsea, but that is a matter among you, your family and your God.

Remember the sign over James Carville's desk during the 1992 campaign? It 
said, "It's the economy, stupid!" Place the sign over your desk "It's 
about character stupid!" 

No, It's not about sex, Mr. President. If It were, you would be long gone.
It's about character, but we have to live with your filth, lies and 
arrogance for a while longer. Your lies, amorality and lack of character 
have been as pervasive as they have been despicable, so we have no reason 
to believe that you will quietly resign and go away.
You'll count on half truths and spin doctors to see you through, then be 
damned. It has always worked before. We excused you and looked the other 
way.

No more we've had enough. You have betrayed us enough. You have made every 
elected official, minister, teacher, diplomat, parent and grandparent in 
the country apologize for you and explain away your actions.
Now go away, and let us show them that our country was not without morals, 
it was just that you were. Let us show them that America was not the 
problem, William Jefferson Clinton was.
Go away, Mr. President. Leave us alone. And when you leave, know that your 
legacy to the United States of America will be a stain on the Office of 
the President that is as filthy as the stain on Monica's dress. It will 
take a lot of scrubbing to make it clean again.

By Eric Jowers, a retired Army officer, served as public affairs officer 
at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991.