Adultery, compulsive sexual addiction, an appetite for prostitutes, and children outside of marriage.

Which, of course, causes us to ask an obvious question, which is: why are Americans just as inclined to "elect" adolescent, grossly deceptive men whose endless sexual liaisons cause their wives bottomless shame and humiliation-versus-mature, faithful men who cherish and unabashedly love, their wives?

Coincidence? Not likely.

All but two of the above womanizers were involved in epic military offensives.

By contrast, the twenty-eight presidents who were faithful (by comparison), were far more peaceful.

Which raises another question: as do many primitive tribes and factions, could it be that when a nation is psychologically prepared to go to war they subconsciously choose men based on their ability to conquer women, as well as enemies?

For instance, it was presumed that because former President Bill Clinton, was a "draftdodger" he would never send America to War.

However, even before he ordered missile attacks on (among others), Yugoslavia, such speculation had already proven untrue.

In fact, Ramsey Clark's book, The Children Are Dying: The Impact of Sanctions On Iraq, revealed that Clinton's embargo against Iraq had killed at least one million Iraqi children.

Conversely, few people know that a "devastating series" of U.S. led attacks against Yugoslavia, actually initiated "ethnic cleansing," and virtually decimated an entire country.

All toll, throughout his Presidency, Clinton successfully provided America with scores of "human sacrifices" who in no way aroused its feelings, of guilt.

Translation? By pursuing a foreign policy which invisibly killed Iraqi children, and conducting a propaganda campaign that turned Yugoslavian leader Slobodon Milosevic into Adolf Hitler, incarnate: Clinton provided the United States with suitable "blood sacrifices" to atone for its own immorality, corruption and sins, here and abroad.

Furthermore, his willingness to unconsciously turn himself into a sacrificial lamb was also quite evident.

Weeks before Clinton's sexual dalliances, and ultimately his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Staffers and Aides repeatedly warned him that the "Sacrificial High Priest," Ken Starr, was seeking to nail him on sexual misdemeanors for which he might be caught and convicted.

Nevertheless, Clinton, instinctively sensed the group-fantasy of sacrifice calling on him to voluntarily, if you will, climb upon the public altar.

Consequently, he began a sexual relationship with Lewinsky: during which, at times, he reportedly gazed out of the White House windows while being sexually serviced; secure in the knowledge that Starr's investigators might be watching.

In The Beginning ...

According to his biographer, Clinton served as his family's sacrificial hero, as well as the "caretaker and protector of the family."

This was especially true in the case of his mother, Virginia. In fact, boy Clinton, "twice had to stop real violence when Roger threatened to kill Virginia."

Meanwhile, his alcoholic stepfather was so violent that "little Billy" even remembers him firing a gun at his mother when he was only five.

Worse still, Clinton himself was physically abused by his stepfather during countless drunken rages.

Yet, it was precisely his "Family Hero" role that enhanced his ability to sense the subconscious-emotional needs of others for which he sacrificed his own core values in exchange for considerable adulation and praise.

Moreover, it transformed him into a formidable politician.

Clearly, in retrospect, love was only but an occasional stranger throughout the Clinton household.

As a child, Virginia left little Billy with her mother and moved to another city to study nursing for almost two years. His grandmother who possessed a "fierce temper," and served as boy Clinton's guardian during his formative years, beat him with a "whip" as she had his mother when she was also a child.

As he grew older, his mother frequently left him alone while she went on gambling excursions. "I was raised in that sort of culture where you put on a happy face, and you didn't reveal your pain and agony," said Clinton.

Noted Psychotherapist Jerome Levin, links Clinton's sexual addiction with hundreds of women directly to his lonely childhood:

Virgina Kelly [Clinton's mother] looks extraordinary like Lewinsky. Kelly's hairstyle, heavy makeup, and the overall impression are strikingly similar to Lewinsky's. Bill Clinton, the man who had lost his mother, had found a replacement for her... His legacy as an adult child of an alcoholic compelled him to fill the emptiness of his childhood and to repeat the addictive pattern of both his biological and his adoptive parents...

In fact, after Monica Lewinsky was transferred out of the White House, in a most revealing--surreal-like moment, Clinton said to her, "Why do they have to take you away from me?" It was the same question he had asked his mother when she left him.

You can, if you please, take the case of Juanita Boderick. Mrs. Boderick, (who has recently come forward and accused Clinton of biting, assaulting, and viciously raping her twice), also bares a striking resemblance to his mother; and was, for the record, at one time, a nurse.

In light of the former and the latter revelations, clearly, we have in Clinton, a man who still longs for the love of his mother.

You see, whenever Clinton chooses to betray and shame his wife, he is expressing the subconscious rage he feels towards his mother for her betrayal and abandonment of him during his adolescence.

The only difference is: role reversal! In other words, when Clinton is involved in an affair he becomes the betrayer, and the role of his wife, is that of the betrayed.

Alas, the Clinton affairs are not as much about sex as they are about "loss."

Clinical studies of sexaholics repeatedly show that an insatiable appetite for sex is not necessarily the primary issue at all: but, in fact, a desperate fight against their inner feelings of maternal abandonment, self-fragmentation through the conquests of women, and finally, impotence.

In short--impotence--(not potency), is the source of all sexual addictions; not to mention, war, human carnage, and the death of innocent people. (Excerpted from the best-selling new book entitled: Irresistible Ways To Achieve Your Dreams.)

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James Hart, is chief economic counsel and investment strategist at Credit Suisse Acceptance Trust. He is also an author and monetary scientist. Regarding questions, serious financial matters, or general topics of concern, fire-off an e-mail to: James Hart or go to: efobi.com