Jun
20
When asked why they cared so much about the sex life of President Clinton, to the extent that he deserved to be impeached and booted from office, right wing pundits would pull themself up self-righteously and say “But he lied!”
The worst damage William Jefferson Clinton’s caused by his affair with Monica Lewinsky, was to stain one blue dress. Compare the damage Bush’s war caused – as many as ten thousand Iraqi civilians killed, untold thousands of Iraqi soldiers,a couple hundred American and British soldiers killed, and more dying every day, tens of thousands people wounded, a country’s infrastructure destroyed, billions of dollars spent — and for what?
As Paul Krugman points out: “But he lied!”