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Edwynn -> RE: Should W be tried for treason (3/22/2011 11:48:40 PM)
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Every president has lied about something or another, but reasons and consequences are what matter.
Nixon resigned because he not only was about be impeached, but he knew there would be a conviction in the Senate also (the latter meaning removal from office). He lied as part of the cover up concerning Watergate, though he didn't order it and didn't know until after the fact. He did however order a couple of other break ins. In any case all those events had to do with his classic paranoia, and nothing to do directly with national interests per se, and concerning that he didn't lie any more than other presidents had in the past about whatever war might be going on at the time.
Clinton was impeached for lying about a strictly personal issue. Dumb as he might have been for what happened, the matter had even far less to do with any national interests than Nixon's lying. And for a silly matter such as that, a president was impeached. This says more about the true national embarrassments in congress at the time than anything, and history will show that.
The W's administration told a large book's worth of lies, starting the first week on the job. All very deliberate, very intentional, and not to cover up but to purposefully induce others into a war under false pretense, and willfully instigated actions they knew full well would cause long term damage to national interests, all for sake of profit for a very few. Those lies have cost well over 100,000 lives so far, and the final number of trillions of dollars/pounds/euros/dinar etc. to all the countries involved will not have a final tally for years to come.
I don't care about GW, all he did was sign whatever they put before him and read to the public what they handed him.
The fact that Ceyney, Rumsfeldt, Wolfovitz, and Rove, at the least, are not swinging from the gallows, not even charged with treason, not even charged with war crimes, makes a mockery of any past or future sanctions against presidents for "lying."
Especially for those in the rest of the world knowing about a previous president being impeached for a blow job, we have to look like a frikkin' joke of historical proportions, and a rather sick one at that.
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