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At the impeachment hearing last Friday, Barney Frank, D-Mass., tried to spring the perjury trap, but Starr thwarted him by repeating that he didn't do any illegal leaking (he didn't add "by my definition") and that he couldn't discuss the matter because it was "under seal" (he didn't add "at my request").
Anti-Semitism, thwarted erotic desires.
It also thwarted a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and thank God for that, for the entire course of history might have been different had the Great Emancipator been cut down.
Both sides will now replay their old game: The United States will seek international support for sanctions and perhaps a military strike, probably to be thwarted by a last-minute Iraqi retraction.
Clinton and Gore thwarted them and defeated Dole by convincing voters that Republican budget cuts threatened Medicare.