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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
What Clinton did was wrong. Period.
It was about sex, Starr was out of control -- I saw this notwithstanding my deep personal admiration for the man, with which you are familiar -- and the GOP tried to use his mistake for political reasons.
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I don't understand this. Why is sex relevant? Is there a special sex related category of perjury? If not, why qualify it? Its perjury and its wrong, regardless of the subject of the perjury, right?
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It wasn't grounds for impeachment, but what he did was wrong. Period.
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so what you are saying is that perjury does not at least raise the issue of whether or not the Chief Executive officer of the country, the man ultimately in charge of administering the laws of the nation is fit to serve in that capacity? I don't believe he should have been removed from office (although maybe censured), but I think he should have been impeached to examine what he did. Publicly.
If what you saying holds for all, then any lawyer who knwolingly files a false affidavit or presents other false testimony to a judge should have no consequence (other than social sanction). Right?
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Clinton suffered consequences, and I find it odd that conservatives now seem to feel that there has to be a legal sanction because traditional social sanctions apparently count for nothing.
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so social sanction replaces punitive measures. Does that work across the board, maybe we have pedophiles wear a large a P on their chests instead of jail time?
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Tommy Franks told Bush that they had been looking for WMD for years without finding any. Bush told reporters two days later, categorically, that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Maybe it's not a lie only in the sense that Bush had some sort of religious-like conviction that Hussein was a bad man and that an invasion would turn up the evidence,
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Maybe he was relying on his predecessor, who said Saddam either had WMDs or was trying to get them and thus would be a danger unless removed. Clinton's word should be sufficient.
