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Originally Posted by stevo
No. This has nothing to do with Iraq and isn't even meant as an attack on Clinton. I'm merely pointing out that the effort to make bush out to be some master criminal that should be tried and hung is disturbing and I felt the need to remind everyone what the last president did. And while the wrongs of one do not negate the wrongs of another, I feel that a lot of the animosity toward the current administration is quite overblown and out of proportion when our past president's administration is consitered. But of course when Clinton was prosecuted it was just a right-wing conspiracy attack, but when bush is attacked its because of legitimate reasons, since the guy is such a criminal. Do you get where I'm coming from here?
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Fair enough and I agree. I think zen_tom puts it best.
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Originally Posted by zen_tom
Don't think this is limited to Bush and Clinton - corruption and elitism (i.e. being above the law) in the US government's corridors of power is evidently rife, institutional, you might even say, and I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon.
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I see this extending into other corridors of power as well (Enron for example).
Ultimately, I don't think it is anything new. We now have an increasingly aggressive media as well as increasingly agressive prosecutors. Since Watergate, there has been a growing (and I'd argue healthy) lack of respect for governemental institutions.
The key is finding a balance between oversight and needlessly hassling.