The President and an intern have sex, or 4,000 dead GI's in a Illegal, falsely justified, unecessary war. ....

Question

Which would you rather have.?

Notice how conservatives put such a spin on their answers that they never get around to dealing with the original question?

Answer 1

I'd rather not have a lying president at all, but I'm not sure that's an acceptable answer, so I'll take the sexual dalliance over the disastrous war for a number of reasons:

1) the war in Iraq hasn't made us any safer, in fact terrorism has gone up several thousand percent since our invasion.

2) tens (if not hundreds) of thousands have died due to Bush's irrational invasion of Iraq, and Al-Qaeda now has a base where it had none before (and boy, have we given them new motivation!!). Clinton screwed up, all right, but he didn't cost American servicemen their lives, or order events to be initiated that will cost our soldiers their lives for years to come.

3) the president's little fling cost us plenty in investigative expenses and lost congressional productivity, but it was nowhere near the $800 BILLION we have now spent in Iraq.

4) the president's little fling cost us but a little international prestige; whereas the war in Iraq has put us on the wrong side of international law, which states that nations may only go to war when they are actually under attack, or specifically authorized by the UN Security Council (like the coalition to liberate Kuwait was).

Answer 2

I wouldn't forget The Somalia affair I guess you might know it as Black hawk down or something. Where as Army Rangers died so Bill could act like he didn't have nothing to do with it and blame someone else. Or maybe you'd rather mention that administration sending tactical helicopters over to fight the Serbs with a concept that would have put then totally out of there element and tactical deployment configuration. So they sat over there never did nothing but train. I guess another feel good gesture from Bill. Lets not forget his efforts to go after alqeda deploying Cruise missles on desert huts and an aspirin factory

I'll go with PLGray on this
"Must be nice in your world where you can so neatly compare such dissimilar events."

Answer 3

First of all the President and sex out of marriage has not got a damn thing to do with it. What we had is a president who lied under oath to a grand jury. That is a high crime and a misdemeanor as defined by the Constitution. Second I listened to the administration of that same President claim that Iraq was trying to develop nuclear weapons and claim to be violating UN resolutions that allowed him to fire enough cruse missiles that the military had to re-task nuclear war-birds for traditional warheads.
As for illegal the President followed all the rules under the war powers act so that is a flat out lie. Unnecessary I might grant you because I am a freaking radical and would have give Iraq and Iran the Nuclear weapons they were pursuing although not in the manner that they wanted.

There would either be a full scale war world wide today or the Mullahs would be trying to crawl up their own rear ends to avoid notice by the USA.

If you do not like the USA then go live some where else. People like me will not allow people like you to take over our country.

Do you think that the vets in this country will not put enough of you down to stop it if you go to far?

If you do then you push for a real war. A war most of us do not want but will fight, and fight to win, fight to the knife.

Answer 4

How about the American president who had sex with an intern signs a couple of laws that restrict your fundamental rights as a citizen. And, living in a big city and never exercising those particular rights, you are not wise enough to know the difference.

Now compare that to a president who has sacrificed 4,000 lives to keep your city from getting nuked by terrorists sometime in the future.

Which would YOU rather have?

Answer 5

I will give you a conservative answer! Had Clinton just had relations with Monica and lied about it it wouldn't have been so bad. But, he sells us out to China, he didn't take care of any of the other terrorists attacks and a whole lot of people ended up with 'accidental deaths' under him, not to mention all the other scandals. Had he taken care of buisness when all of this started including getting rid of Bin laden when he had the chance WE WOULDN'T BE AT WAR NOW! You call the war what you want but the facts remain it could have been prevented!

Answer 6

The president and an intern have sex - the president then lies to a grand jury - impeachment proceedings are initiated - the office of the president is demeaned beyond any sensibility. These are all facts, the rest of your question is nothing but far left rhetoric and you know it.

Answer 7

Well having sex I don't think was the issue. I think it was the lies he told to congress and to me, as he pound his fist on the podium. "I did not have sex with that woman,... Ms Lewinsky" (He had to add the who on to the end for clarity)

So if we compare telling lies to congress .. well I think they are even.
But when interpreting intelligence, determining security risks, and assuring the USA will not endure another attack. I think "W" is in the clear.
Oh and wait, congress voted to allow the attack. So it does not matter, we are in it with approval.

Answer 8

Well if the President who had sex with the intern had been focusing more on his job and not the intern we would not have gotten in such deep poop to have to go to war.

If the 1st would not have happened, the 2nd would not have happened.

Answer 9

Must be nice in your world where you can so neatly compare such dissimilar events.

Must be nice to be a liberal without the ability of abstract thought.