I’d argue that if the nation is willing to prosecute the people on the front lines keeping us safe it doesn’t really matter if they get pardoned or not. The country is lost.
What was it, the Oxford Union that voted overwhelmingly that they would not bear arms in defense of country? Not every country can count on having the man of the century ready to come off the bench and save the world as did Great Britain in 1939.
Today America is resembling England between the wars. The nihilism, the cynicism of the left, it's arrogance, have made it impervious to reason and I fear they can only be educated by events.
If you click through to the original debate at the Politico "Arena," it's obvious the firing squad is already lined up.
Of course, the value of the "investigation" is to keep public gaze, and rage, fixed on the image of the demonized Bush, while avoiding scrutiny of the new idol of hope and change.