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The Clinton Presidency Americas Darkest Hour

400,000 and rising, Clinton said, “We cannot solve everysuch outburst of civil strife or militant nationalism simply by sending in our forces.” (Kelly). One may ask, if he considers a million corpses a “civil strife”, does he really careabout the world and the human race at all? Then, one may look at what happened with Mena, and the two teenage boys, DonHenry, 16, and his friend Kevin Ives, 17. In August of1987, while Bill Clinton was stillgovernor of Arkansas, the two boys told their parents that they were going to go “deerspotting”. The next morning they were found on the railroad tracks close to Shobe Roadnear Alexander, Arkansas. They had been run over by a Union Pacific train. ArkansasState Medical Examiner Fahmy Malak ruled the deaths of the two boys “accidental,” andsaid that the two boys had smoked too much marijuana and had fallen asleep on the tracks. However, after a grand jury probe, a second autopsy declared it a double homicide, havingfound evidence of a knife wound and beatings. A forensic pathologist by the name of JoeBurton said that prior to being run over by the train, Don Henry had been stabbed in theback and Kevin Ives had been beaten, with what looked to be a rifle butt. So, one may ask, what made State Medical Examiner Malak come to such anoutrageous cause of death? Bill Clinton said that his examiner was “stressed out andoverworked.” (Satter). This then leads to the question of why Clinton would defendMalak, although his rulings of death had been “questioned in more than 20 differentcases.” (Satter), including the case of Raymond Albright, who was obviously shot 5 timesin the chest, and was found with no trace of gun powder on his hands, or any otherevidence supporting a suicide, but yet Malak still ruled it a suicide. However, if one wasto search in Malak’s past, they would find that he was a principal player in cleari...

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