If Spitzer Should Resign...

...then George W. Bush should be prosecuted.

I mean, let's be fair. Eliot Spitzer is undeniably a hypocrite, having busted up prostitution rings while secretly patronizing one such service. But the actual crime Spitzer is being hounded from office, and potentially prosecuted, for is victimless. Who actually gets hurt if two adults have sex and one of them gets paid for it? How does that affect me, or anyone other than Mrs. Spitzer?

But while Eliot Spitzer's crimes are victimless, George W. Bush's crimes have millions of victims. According to the U.K. Independent, 1.2 million Iraqis fled to Syria after our illegal invasion of their country, which posed no threat to us. As many as 50,000 women, and girls as young as 13, have been forced into prostitution there to survive.

What does it say about us as a society that a governor who has consensual sex is hounded from office in disgrace, but a president whose illegal actions kill hundreds of thousands and inflict profound suffering on millions more is allowed to serve out his term in relative peace?

Real morality is a question of preventing human suffering. George W. Bush is a far, far less moral person than Eliot Spitzer.