Actually, the issue here is not Bush, and not Republicans. The issue is the principle of equality before the law, and government by the consent of the governed. It must be informed consent, or the consent is tainted. And the consent is not informed, if we never got told the real reasons for going to war, and if the (endlessly repeated) publicized reasons were not the real reasons.
Both parties have gotten caught in lies, and both parties' Presidents got away with it. If the next President is Democratic, he will feel free to act as if he is above the law. Why not, when the examples of Clinton and Bush2 show there are no consequences, when you get caught? The damage, the very basic damage to the rule of law, to honesty in public affairs, is the same no matter who wins the next election. |
