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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (708518)	10/24/2005 10:17:24 AM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

As we all learned during Watergate, we are a nation of laws, not men. When it comes to laws on lying under oath, Perjury, etc., there is no distinction between individuals. Nowhere in the statute or case law does it say: "This law does not apply to person of a certain importance". There are defenses to some laws, such as executive privilege, but that defense did not apply to Clinton and it certainly does not apply to the fellows in trouble now. All men are equal under the law. If not, let's go back to King George where the sovereign could not be charged with a crime. Principled conservatives will agree with me, as they regularly ask not for new laws but that the laws on the books be used in an equitable manner.