What the {Clinton/Lewinsky scandal} showed was that a matter of personal behavior could crowd out of the public's attention far more serious matters, indeed matters of life and death. The House of Representatives would impeach the president on matters of sexual behavior, but it would not impeach him for endangering the lives of children by welfare reform, or for violating international law in bombing other countries {Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan}, or for allowing hundreds of thousands of children to die as a result of economic sanctions {Iraq}.
( Howard Zinn )
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