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By Tony Czuczka Jul 3, 2007, 0:43 GMT
Bush keeps former Cheney aide out of prison (2nd Roundup)
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the unofficial count on USA armed forces is around 20,000, not 4,000 as this admin is saying, what about the wounded, what about the 3,000 @9/11, but it's actually a lot worse then that, in fact it is so horrific, that the English language has really no words to describe it (perhaps hirshoma)
DU, yes everyone in the iraq area has it !! be it usa troops, brits, kiwi's, and it is now rearing its head as the troops come home, anyone run a g counter at the cemetery's??, focus on 9/11 put you energy's into that, find a group, check them out and get stuck in, thats were its all at!!!
Compromising national security is a-okay when the national security is countering zionist propagnada.
When will you people wake up and realize its not the hand puppets (bush etc) that you need to get rid of, its the ZIONISTS. Our country is occupied by forigen interests.
Turn off you TV's and wake uo, we have 2 majopr parties that tow the same line.
As soon as he has paid his fine - send him to the front lines in Iraq!
Bush and pals put their own fortunes and their own ideology above the interests of the United States of America. They will be known as traitors and criminals for the rest of time. This travesty of justice will be remembered.
I saw this coming along time ago, I mean what would you expect from a yellow belly coward, and his administration of criminals, like they would up hold the law. Yellow belly Bush ran for his life after the 911 attacks, then he makes up stories about Iraq, and anybody that came out trying to tell the truth, was silenced. The worse part is, there are still people that support the war in Iraq. Do you think yellow belly bush would serve in Iraq, he would figure away out it just like Nam. All bush cares about is the rich, and powerful, and that is why he gives them the tax breaks. And he will not protect the country from the invasion from Mexico, so the rich can have cheap labor.
The worse part is, when yellow belly gets out, look what will take his place, now talk about some sleepless nights ahead. What has happened to our country? where are all the hero's? Shouldn't a test be given to all people who intend to run for president? For that matter a test should be given to any person running for any office, and it has to be in English too... oh look Sesame Street is on, I got to go.............
MR.Libby was convicted of Pergury.Perjury is lying under oath.It is a felony.He receved a jury trial and was convicted.Acording to the senencing guidelines his sentence was appropriate.All people who are convicted of thhave the same guidelines.Unless you're pals with a President who recognizes no athority but his own.
I am appalled and disgusted.
What exactly was Clinton lying about?A blowjob?Big deal ,only neocons dare to compare protecting one's private life from biggot and evangelical interfering with matters of state .Nothing better to offer as argument?Compared to Bush Clinton is the pinnacle of honesty ,and that is a fact .
Unfortunately its just another case of the slime protecting the grime.
I wonder what the Zionist lobby have on Bush,
Why does he kow-tow to their every wish?
The president of the united states of america seems to be BENT!!!
But its nothing less than what we expect of Bush and his cosy group of neocans. He is the Worst President in History and an embaressment worthy of all the ridicule we can heap on him. Shame on the Religious Right for supporting his election campaign. Look what you've done!!!
The Bush administration has shed its last vestige of decency by its shameless pardon of a convicted criminal. I'm ashamed of the president.
Blow job Bill and his antics in the oral office were a little light relief (hee hee) compared to this criminal! Maybe though he had little choice, the 'scooter' must be able to dish the dirt bigtime. I'm not a US citizen but if I were I would be outraged by this holy rolling idiot.It's no small wonder that the US is passing from being disliked to being hated around the world!
This comment is not specifically about the Libby commutation though it does enter into it. I think that when most US citizens speak about their founding fathers, they tend to speak in glowing terms of their wisdom. But, in granting a President the right to intervene in prison sentences, this couldn't have been one of their wiser decisions. Deep down, I don't think the founding fathers ever expected this power to be used to benefit the friends, relatives, former superiors, or former subordinates of the President himself ... but rather, strangers for whom leniency is petitioned.
I think it's time for a new Constitutional amendment ... to limit these powers to exclude the President's friends, relatives, former superiors, and former subordinates.
where the fvck are we?this cant be America,how long are these murdering assholes going to get away with this ,the democrats were elected to end the war in Iraq,at least America now sees the democrats for what they are,the same as the republican trash,the two party system is dead in America vote green,dems are no better than the neocons
It's about TIME this came out in Monsters and Critics...
Libby's pardoning is complete and utter BS. Right along with the pardoning of Gonzales.
It just shows you to whom the laws of this country apply to and to whom they do not; that as long as you're part of the ruling elite, you can get away with pretty much anything.
Whatever happened for 'do the crime, do the time?' Why does Paris Hilton spend more time in jail than Libby?
Libby didn't out Plame and he didn't hinder the investigation. The special prosecutor, Fitzgerald, knew it was Armitage at the beginning. Well done President Bush. He saved an innocent man from an unjust, political sentence that the trial judge imposed.
I hope the nut jobs get outraged and leave the United States for Canada, Mexico, or France. It will only improve the good old U S of A if they skidaddle. Good riddance malcontents.
That Bush just does not care what folks think, eh?
How can anyone not see the arrogance and hideous abuse of power by this administration? Blind love for King George and King Dick? Wake up America. Our 'democracy' is more at risk than meets the blind eye......time to impeach. George and Dick should both go to jail forever.
While it is tempting to claim what Bush's actions 'prove' what they powerfully suggest is disturbing. First, it suggests that this is an admission of Bush's own responsibility. Second, it suggests the possibility that if Libby had been forced to do time, he might have spilled the beans. Third, it suggests that Bush had planned to keep his buddy out of prison all along and was hoping that the normal appeals process would prevent him having to do so and pay the political consequence...and if so, it is reasonable to suppose that he will have told Libby that from the beginning in order to assure his silence. So Libby's suffering is in that scenario, vastly overrated and public drama nothing but acting...bad acting, I grant you.
Now, frankly, we all know that Bush's office was complicit in leaking the identity of Plame. Everyone who saw the testimony before the Senate committee saw the chart of how the news was released. We all know that without some sort of smoking gun like a recorded conversation, we will never establish that they knew she was covert or that they knew they were committing a crime because they aren't going to tell us that Cheney and Rove set the thing in motion and that Bush was complicit in the coverup. George appears more and more to be a proxy president ... sure he adds to their neo-con nonsense and is their spokesman ... but he's not pulling all the strings.
Of course, in the past, George has simply claimed that anything he chooses to leak is an intentional declassification. But then we all know how much respect Bush has for the rule of law. It is a truly sad state of affairs when the president, vice president and leader in the senate (Pelosi) are all so pathetic that we cannot hope for good leadership no matter how many we might put in jail.
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