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HILLYER: Scooter Libby, on the record
WashTimes ^ | 11-17-10 | Quin Hillyer

Posted on 11/18/2010 8:15:52 PM PST by STARWISE

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Yup .. Timmy.

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God bless Scooter and his family, and damn the loose cannon with overwhelming authority, Fitzie, the slimey Armitage and his boss, Colin Powell .. who knew the truth. Before any BDSers leap to claim redundantly that Pres. Bush should have pardoned him, he made it clear it wouldn't have been appropriate as President for him to overturn our system of law and the jury.

1 posted on 11/18/2010 8:15:55 PM PST by STARWISE
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.. Ping!


2 posted on 11/18/2010 8:18:20 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

And where is Russert today?


3 posted on 11/18/2010 8:23:35 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: STARWISE

Good article. Except for the reasoning on Bush not pardoning Libby.

Your explanation for that I agree with.

PLUS, the MSM headlines would have screamed “BUSHITLER pardons GESTAPO LEADER”, during the elections.


4 posted on 11/18/2010 8:29:28 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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It wouldn’t have mattered, though.

Bush should have pardoned Libby. It was a political fishing expedition.


5 posted on 11/18/2010 8:38:16 PM PST by Carling (Remember November)
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To: STARWISE
it wouldn't have been appropriate as President for him to overturn our system of law and the jury.

That is the primary reason that I saw President Bush as a Good President. And not just that once, but the fact that he has been consistently this way since he started in politics.

He was running for reelection as Governor, a woman who had violently killed her family and was due to be executed, suddenly got religion. The other candidate supported giving this woman a stay. All George Bush had to do, at that time, was give the poor woman a stay of execution, based on her finding God, and he would be guaranteed the election.

He said no. For the very same reason you stated.

6 posted on 11/18/2010 8:38:59 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: STARWISE

Thank You SW.


7 posted on 11/18/2010 8:50:26 PM PST by potlatch ( Life must be lived forward but can only be seen looking backward. - Soren Kierkegaard)
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Bush should have pardoned Libby. It was a political fishing expedition.

Sure. But what you are saying (or any of us) is that YOU would have pardoned Libby. I say this because neither your or I are George Bush.

Perhaps he has higher standards, as I have witnessed in the past.

Maybe he thought it would damage the party more than it would help.

Who knows?

By NOT doing so, he has certainly set the example for NOT GOING AROUND THE LAW.

All these other politicians are known for doing the exact opposite, so...

8 posted on 11/18/2010 8:51:52 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Carling

Given the reason that STARWISE listed, do you think President Bush still should have done so?


9 posted on 11/18/2010 8:56:28 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

Yes, I believe that Bush should have pardoned Libby, STARWISE’s opinion aside.


10 posted on 11/18/2010 9:04:05 PM PST by Carling (Remember November)
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>>>Never mind that Mr. Russert’s own memory had proved flagrantly untrustworthy in a previous instance.<<<

Tim Russert was a snake—an evil, self-serving snake. Thank God he is now in Hell where he belongs.


11 posted on 11/18/2010 9:11:25 PM PST by PhilipFreneau
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To: STARWISE

The next Republican President should make his or her first order of business to give Scooter a full pardon, and apology for the miscarriage of justice.


12 posted on 11/18/2010 9:12:01 PM PST by pallis
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To: UCANSEE2
By NOT doing so, he has certainly set the example for NOT GOING AROUND THE LAW.

And set the example of why you should never work for Bush or give him any support.

There is plenty of law, one could cut it to pieces, run it through a meat grinder, and there would still be plenty to go around, and it would work just as well.

Bush certainly did a great job of painfully detouring around justice, wouldn't want to get any of that on his hands.

13 posted on 11/18/2010 9:17:59 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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“Yet neither Wilson was convicted of a felony.”

Yep. She should have been brought up on nepotism charges and he for later lying and changing his story. His actual ‘intel’ tended to validate the other WMD intel. “Why else would anyone came to Niger for ‘trade’???

I also wish Bush would come off the ‘there weren’t any’ (WMDs) thing. With the intel from all sources and the fact that they could have been shipped out before we got there... just the _possibility_ of that, should make it less of a ‘certainty’ that they didn’t have any.


14 posted on 11/18/2010 9:22:25 PM PST by Kent C
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To: UCANSEE2

>>>>>>STARWISE wrote, “Bush should have pardoned him, he made it clear it wouldn’t have been appropriate as President for him to overturn our system of law and the jury.”<<<<<<

>>>Given the reason that STARWISE listed, do you think President Bush still should have done so?<<<

I cannot forgive Bush for allowing the Fitzgerald show-trial to procede, and I cannot forgive Bush for not fully pardoning Scooter and exposing that charlatan named Fitzgerald as an evil, spiteful SOB who should have never been allowed to be a U.S. Attorney. Further, I cannot forgive Bush for not excoriating the loathsome Joe Wilson and his even more loathsome wife for lying to the American people and allowing an innocent man to convicted of a crime he did not commit.

Okay, I will forgive Bush when he repents, but I am not holding my breath.


15 posted on 11/18/2010 9:26:56 PM PST by PhilipFreneau
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To: Navy Patriot

I would hope you’ll reconsider the insanity of that logic
in the morning.

Just broaden it out .. let’s say:

how ‘bout Obama pardons Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani,
convicted of just one count out of 285 .. for the US
embassy bombings in East Africa .. because in his
mind he thinks there must be something amiss if the
jury only found him guilty of just one of those many
counts.

How’s that sound ?


16 posted on 11/18/2010 9:33:34 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: PhilipFreneau

Wow .. I’m sure he’ll lose sleep over that.


17 posted on 11/18/2010 9:35:27 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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.. Ping!


18 posted on 11/18/2010 9:37:27 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Carling

OK. Thanks for responding.


19 posted on 11/18/2010 9:43:47 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: STARWISE

This one is yet to be corrected.


20 posted on 11/18/2010 10:21:28 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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