American Public Does Pay Attention to the Stink from the Bushies

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WASHINGTON - The recent indictment of Vice President Cheney's top aide has struck a nerve with the American public. Four in five, 79 percent, said the indictment of former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on perjury and other charges is important to the nation, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Pew noted that in September 1998, 65 percent said President Clinton's lies under oath were important. Clinton was impeached over his handling of an affair with Monica Lewinsky, but was acquitted by the Senate on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

Libby was charged with lying to investigators and a grand jury during an investigation of his role in revealing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, wife of an outspoken critic of the war against Iraq.

Most Americans, six in 10, say they do not think the news about Libby's indictment has gotten too much coverage.

The concerns about Libby's case come at a time that a growing number of people, 43 percent, now say U.S. and British leaders were mostly lying when they claimed before the Iraq war that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, while an equal number said they were misinformed by bad intelligence.

There are some big core differences between Clinton and the Bushies, and not their political parties either. Specifically, Americans were NOT concerned about the Clinton's initial deed, but that they lied. This poll number, however, of those who thought it was very serious that he lied is much higher than any I can find for that time period. Later, as it became more obvious this was an attempted coup d'etat, Americans blamed the GOP far more than Clinton.

But re: the Bushies', however, polls show HIGH numbers of Americans are even more concerned about the events that occurred that then resulted in the Bushies lies.

And let's not forget: lying about semen on a blue dress is an order of magniture different than lying us into hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and years of crippling debt.