[kellynla]

If GWB can commute Libby's sentence, he sure as hell can commute the sentence of these BP agents. And while he's at it, he should have those Marines who are locked up in the brig for killing our enemies released and charges dropped.

Semper Fi, Kelly

[Theodore R.]

But he won’t: GWB supports only the rich and powerful, as the Democrats, alas, have long contended. Of course, they too support the rich and powerful. There is no one “prominent” for the “little man” but he isn’t smart enough to figure that out.

[plain talk]

I know this is an emotional issue, but people need to look at the facts," Bush said. "These men were convicted by a jury of their peers after listening to the facts as my friend, Johnny Sutton, presented them. But anyway, no, I won't make you that promise."

Well who is acting based on emotions here?

[Clara Lou]

as my friend, Johnny Sutton, presented them
[emphasis mine] Bush is just stupid with words. Stupid. He nails the lid shut on himself.

[Ajnin]

George Bush: "I know this is an emotional issue."

Johnny Sutton: "I know this is an emotional issue."

Chief David Aguilar: "I know this is an emotional issue."

It sounds like everyone got the memo on how to try and discredit anyone that believes there is some reasonable doubt that justice was served.

[johnny7]

“'I'm going to see you in the Rose Garden at the (bill) signing ceremony.'”

[Kakaze]

The president elicited laughter when he told the questioner, "You've got a nice smile, but you can't entice me into making a public statement."

I don't see the humor in him anymore. Its just flippant arrogance and smart ass remarks, between calling us racist and rubes.

I had enough of it, more than enough.

[angelcindy]

He has no intentions of pardoning them...

[Hydroshock]

Of course Jorge is not goign to help these BP agents, the people he works for in Mexico would not approve.

[Fitzcarraldo]

If the agents would've killed the alien drug smuggler, I'll bet this mess wouldn't have seen the light of day.

[Weeedley]

News Flash:
White House doctors, during the colonoscopathy, found his head displayed on the monitor. One commented, “most unusual but not unexpected in his case!”

[Duke Nukum]

"I know this is an emotional issue, but people need to look at the facts," Bush said. "These men were convicted by a jury of their peers after listening to the facts as my friend, Johnny Sutton, presented them. But anyway, no, I won't make you that promise."

Based on the bought testimony of a drug smuggler. Maybe the President thinks we are all idiots because he conned us into thinking he was a conservative.

[WesternPacific]

BJ Clintoon has his Monica legacy and GW Bush will have his Border legacy. How sad.

[texastoo]

George Bush is no friend to the American people. His friend Scooter Libby was the lawyer who worked for Marc Rich for years while he broke the law and was pardoned. It boggles my mind as to how Scooter went from being the lawyer of a crook (not just an ordinary crook) to a high official on the VP staff.

[calcowgirl]

Ramos/Compean Ping!

[TheDon]

Better question: “Mr. President, which is more important to you, being loyal to your friends, or providing justice to Ramos and Campeon?”

[Mr. Mojo]

Bush referred to the U.S. attorney responsible for the case, Johnny Sutton, as "a dear friend of mine" and called him a "fair guy" and "even-handed,"

A dear friend, no doubt. But "fair" and "even-handed"? Sutton belongs in prison.

[calcowgirl]

Rohrabacher told WND Sutton has refused to testify at the July 31 hearing of the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The congressman will examine alleged involvement of the Mexican government in the decision to prosecute the agents and others... Thank you Dana Rohrabacher!

[wgflyer]

IMHO....

1. The two agents should be released and their records wiped clean.
2. They should be promoted to leadership positions, effective retroactively to the day of the incident.
3. They should be reimbursed for all compensation rightly due them, promotion included, from the day of the incident.
4. Mr. Sutton should forfeit all compensation he received during this kangaroo prosecution, and that should go to the two agents.
5. Mr. Sutton should fill out the remaining time in jail that the two border agents are currently looking at.
6. The witness (drug dealing illegal) should be executed.

That might set it right.

[Man50D]

"I know this is an emotional issue, but people need to look at the facts," Bush said

The implication being those who disagree with me are not intelligent enough to understand the situation.

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah, LET just set aside the US Constution and the judical system and have the President rule by the emotional fiat of the rabid Know Nothings.

You all, as usual, are flying into hysteric based on pure emotion here.

We are a society of laws. It is not at ALL “Conservative: to demand the President just set aside Court rulings based on the screaming of 5th string talk radio hosts, columns in fringe publications or the various money rasining activist groups e mails.

Never bother to think about that fact do you all?

That ALL your information on this case is presented by tainted sources with a political ax to grind here? NO, because it fits your hyper emotional position on Illegal Immigration, you just accept as “facts” anything that fit your emotional whimsy

Well guess what. It possible for Border Patrol Agents to be thugs and crooks. Just because they serve in the Border Patrol doesn’t make them saints.

Bush comuted Libby’s sentence so he could stay out of jail pending the appeals process. But that process is still going forward. He did not over rule the legal system just to appease the emotional whisy of various far right pressure groups. That is what you all are demanding here.