Bush Bashing

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Sorry, maybe I'm just missing something here but.. how can you argue that circumstances don't matter? Bush's lies aren't just a wee bit worse than Clinton's, their of such more severity that it is like comparing ants and elephants.

Edit: Again Bush has not been shown to be a lair - that is only opinion as of right now. So yes indeed we are comparing ants and elephants. Bush supposed lies (ant) CLinton proven lies (elephant).

Circumstances matter only in how the punishment will be dealt out for the actions of the President once he is impeached and convicted . So no circumstances do not matter for imposing the impeachment or the conviction. Because the principle of the activity - ie the crime that warrants an impeachment is based upon set conditions being meet. Clinton meet those conditions in the eyes of the Congress at the time as was impeached - the Senate did not convict him.

Circumstances, the situations, and how to midigate the punishment comes into being after the trail and conviction take place. Circumstances can be used to state an aquital of a crime. For instance the individual under prosecution shows that in order to defend their life they had to kill in self defense. Clinton can not show that type of circumstance now can he?

However you seem to be wanting to give Clinton a complete pass on his behavior - while saying Bush is wrong for (in your opinion) for doing the exact same thing Clinton was proven to have done. That is a hypocritical arguement - or in this case do what I say to do, not as I do.