Starr Investigation

Re “Records Give Rare Glimpse Into Cost of Starr’s Probe,” Oct. 29:

Enough already on the liberals and Clinton backers blaming Kenneth Starr for the $40 million spent by the taxpayers to investigate Bill Clinton. The blame solely belongs to the First Liar, sitting in the White House. If he had told the truth from day one and cooperated with the independent counsel, the investigation would have been over long ago. Clinton is not the innocent victim in this scandal, he is the cause.

ART AMASAKI

Torrance

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Your article adds to my growing outrage and frustration. Neither Clinton nor Janet Reno can fire Starr without being accused of gross partisanship. It’s time for the American people to revolt. Poll after poll has shown that the American people clearly want to drop the entire surreal persecution. Yet the American people are steadfastly ignored as Starr continues without time limits or financial limits.

What can we the people do to end this bizarre misuse of our money, this abuse of the democratic process? Won’t someone start a march on Washington--or whatever it takes? In the meantime, all we can do for now is to vote Democratic on Tuesday. Is this our only way to protest?

LOUISE D. LILLIARD

Los Angeles

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Clinton said “that he hopes Americans have noticed ‘inner changes’ in him” (Oct. 29). How are we to notice these “changes”? It would seem that if he were truly repentant he would be aghast at his behavior and see resignation as his only recourse.

MEDABELLE BRIDGER

Apple Valley

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Congratulations to Larry Beinhart (Commentary, Oct. 27) for writing what has to be the most ridiculous, intellectually challenged argument yet in defense of Clinton’s indefensible acts. Let’s sum up his argument. Exploitative, adulterous sex with a 21-year-old government volunteer in the Oval Office--good. Repeated, calculated perjury to protect himself from liability--good, at least if it is just about “sex.” Clintons’ marriage--excellent.

Larry, if you want to emulate that “excellent marriage,” go ahead. Crazy me. I always thought fidelity, honesty and trust were more important than the Clintons’ “more noble reasons for marriage.”

STEVEN H. TAYLOR

Valencia

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I, too, am a nobody who “denies that what the president did was wrong.” The protesting Puritans pretend that sex is not a force in the affairs of men (and women), but merely a factor in the marriage equation. The president did the manly thing; denying it was the honorable thing. Tennessee Williams said mendacity is the system we live in. The Puritans’ mendacity surpasses that of the president.

MALCOLM C. YOUNG

Culver City

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As a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps (retired), I was disgusted and appalled by the Oct. 22 Michael Ramirez cartoon depicting Marines thumbing their noses at their commander in chief. No Marine, regardless of his personal feelings, would ever do such a thing, and for your cartoon to imply otherwise is an insult to the Marine Corps and to its tradition of semper fidelis.

GEORGE M. CRALL

Newport Beach