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Sure, his opponents jumped on the fact that he commited perjury. It wasn't the first thing they jumped on, though, and if the US (and especially Ken Starr) hadn't been obsessed about the sex life of Clinton there would have been no perjury.
The most superficial interpretation of the facts is that Clinton lied to the people about something important and rightly got impeached because of it.
A more sane interpretation is that Clinton made a mistake in his personal life and got fucked by an overly inquisitive public.
Unfortunately, the United States is a country where the context of a lie is a thousand times more important than its effects, its malevolence and its content.