No, beardedbruce, but I think there is a qualitative difference between lying about getting a blowjob and lying to the American people get the United States involved in an illegal war, with the inevitable casualties. In one case, horniness is a fairly straightforeward motive. In the other, the motives get pretty murky. Oil, dominance, imperial expansion, GWB simply trying to demonstrate that he, too, has balls, or all of the above. transgretion resulted in a stain on a dress, the other resulted in 2000 American corpses and at least 30,000 Iraqi dead.

Not quite the same thing.