Posted on 07/23/2009 6:29:21 AM PDT by meandog
Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon the Vice President's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Libby had been convicted nearly two years earlier of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity by senior White House officials. The Libby pardon, aides reported, had become something of a crusade for Cheney, who seemed prepared to push his nine-year-old relationship with Bush to the breaking point — and perhaps past it — over the fate of his former aide. "We don't want to leave anyone on the battlefield," Cheney argued. More Related Cheney In Twilight President Bush’s Easy Commute Bush Commutes Libby Sentence Bush had already decided the week before that Libby was undeserving and told Cheney so, only to see the question raised again. A top adviser to Bush says he had never seen the Vice President focused so single-mindedly on anything over two terms. And so, on his last full day in office, Jan. 19, 2009, Bush would give Cheney his final decision.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Like George DUH-pee-yew Bush would ever do the right thing and pardon a patriot.../sarc
Time magazine sucks. Obambi has had 6 troubled months already.
Forty five years ago.
“after eight troubled years”
Eight troubled years, where does this writer get off. Most of the trouble was the left were having hissy fits.
TIME is trying to take the sheeple’s minds off the NOBAMA’s PLUNGING POLL NUMBERS and back on to the ‘TERRIBLE BUSH YEARS’.
Timing is everything. When Obama and the Dems are stepping all over themselves and destroying our economy, Time wants to try to bring the Bush Admin up for some subliminal blame for where we are.
Dinosaur MSM continues to die....
Eh, at least Cheney wasn’t offering to pay and Bush wasn’t pardoning for his (or his family’s) political future ala the Hassidic Jews pardon, the Mark Rich pardon, etc. etc. by Clinton.
You have got to be kidding...
Move on, Time. It won’t work anymore.
Time magazine sucks.
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Ditto that. And the rest of the slimy pravda state media bigots.
Move on, Time. It won’t work anymore.
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MoveOnTime.org?
MoveOnMSM.org?
TIME is trying to take the sheeple’s minds off the NOBAMA’s PLUNGING POLL NUMBERS and back on to the ‘TERRIBLE BUSH YEARS’.
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Pathetic, isn’t it?
"Bush was persuaded that the day of the neoconservatives had to be over, because the direction of his presidency had become politically unsustainable"
Not just his presidency, the direction of the GOP had become politically unsustainable.
What a friggin’ hitpiece! Plame was NOT a Secret Agent. Joe WAS recommended to the CIA bosses by Valerie. Saddam HAD sought yellowcake in Africa. The foreign intelligence services STILL stand behind these positions.
“A lie told often enough becomes truth” - Vladimir Lenin
I refuse to read that entire piece of trash—one page was enough—so I have to ask: does the name RICHARD ARMITAGE appear anywhere in it??
Scratch that 2nd ‘be’, please.
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