Greetings and Blessings to You The Reader,
The buzz pertaining to the second guessing game of George W. Bush in regards to the Scooter Libby pardoning question is growing in decibals daily. Was Mrs. P covert? Did Scooter really have that bad of a memory, is that possible?
The Correct View here seems to point to what we shall for the sake of argument address as "the conscience issue", or CU. Basically it is this: does your conscience or "gut" tell you the faithful reader that a) said reader or ANYONE that said reader knows, if on the stand with the same set of memory blank spots in a case even half of this important, would the averege person in America get convicted or not, and b) do the original charges seem like a ligitement charge or an attack upon the already lackluster view of The Bush Administration?
Let us look at "a)", this is the easy part, is it not? After all there is no way, under even the most drug induced influence, even with a magic lamp and a Genni full of wishes, NO WAY that anyone reading this can assume that the averege man would be found anything but 100% guilty. The prisons are full of people who are only half as guilty sounding as Scooter Libby is.
Now, for question "b)", well - things get foggier here. To start with, the question has not really been addressed as to how the charges went from outing a covert agent to what they have since morphed into. Then add to that the fact that it is not even noted as certain that the agent was covert at all, and if it was then how did Dick Chenney not also get called to the stand?
Now that we have worded ourselves into a terrible mess at this point, let us go back to point one and remember the fate of the poor, averege man. To prison with the averege should mean to prison for rich attourneys as well, to this we shall concede. However...
If we are in fact throwing away the key on Mr. Libby and Mr. Bush decides to pardon him, where are we left then? Yes, cries of "cronnieism" could not be scoffed at, for such a move would bolster such attacks, but here is another question to ponder - are we then ready to also condemn and also use our "cronnieism" mantra towards Mr. William Jefferson Clinton who while leaving office pardoned some of the most offensive individuals within the prison system himself? Drugs Lords, Drug Runners, Tax Cheats, and listen - The Correct View is not saying that the drug laws are not too strict or that the IRS is honest - NEVER! Rather, The Correct View is asking why were not very many Democrats were up in arms with Mr. Libby when he along with Mr. Clinton was part of a deal to pardon Marc Rich, a deal that went down with a handshake, a wink, and a crisp $100,000 bill?
Here is The Correct View: what one administration is ok with, future administrations will be ok with. Ford pardoned Nixon in a move that many still question. Ever since then Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bill Clinton have made some rather questionable moves in terms of who they chose to pardon. After such a deal, the kingdom (and with all this Bush and Clinton talk, and with Mrs. Clinton looming at the White House door like a horrible gargoyle from a Vincient Price movie is what we have - A KINGDOM) always reeks of money, brandy, and yes, cronnieism. What is needed is not a decision to pardon Scooter Libby, but a decision to not allow every administration to worsen the office that they leave behind by uppeing the ante with every possible move.
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This is very different from most blogs I have come to find online. Are you a dem or repub? This seems very right wing, but you seem left on issues. I will read more.
~Bill from Phil
Greetings Bill From Phil,
Thanks for replying and commenting. I am an independent Libertarian who left the party former when they began to head in certain directions that I can not support. Still, that party is more on track to a realy, constitutional America than the major parties.
~Sam
Thanks for stopping by Let's Talk.
I'm not confused as to where you stand with Libby, Bush, Clinton and pardons.
It's always the same song when dealing with the two (2), parties we have here in America.
I guess it would be the same if any other party came into office.
Our country is set up in a special way: those at the top, who are forgiven for many things when they have the ears of the ones making decisions and those at the bottom you catch it when they make mistakes or break the law.
We run to the Republican and Democratic parties as if they were the only parties best to run this country.
Money is raised to insure that the playing field is set up for only those at the top to enter or play... then we, as if blind and foolish fall for their promise and their lies and willingly follow them all the way to the poor house no matter what.
Just look at the poor men and women who follow President Bush and the Republicans party, even though there's nothing that they have done to help them... in fact, all their decisions have been against them and for the benefit of the rich.
Then we have the Democrats, who promise us the world, but when in office they seem to forget what they promised.
Just look at how they went along with this war, in fear of being called a non American.
Now they are against this war and trying to fix the mess that the Republican party has caused.
Yet they sit back scared to stop the funding for this war in fear of being labeled the ones responsible for the failure of said war.
The war is already a failure... any time you must send injured combat troops back into a war, you have failed... see Salon.
We need a new party and a new way of doing things in America.
Greetings LETS TALK,
Good to see that you came by. I will, unlike Mrs. Clinton, admit to being in favor of the war at one time. I still do not think that it was an unwise decision, but it was certainly an unwise number of people who layed out the war that have caused people like meto alter our views on it a bit. No, people like me have not changed our minds, we have rather had our minds changed FOR us.
It can be looked at another way...do you want a million dollars? Sure. Now, if you get that because someone dies and leaves it to you, you will not be happy you had wished for the money. That is how this war is. Yes, we need to defend and weaken potential advisaries who defy the terms of the last war ending (I speak of Saddam and his agreement and following disobiedience towards the inspectors). It seems logical to me that if Saddam was allowing groups to plan in Iraq (and we know that Al Zaquarri was very active in Iraq) that we stop it.
How? Well, the same way you stop Iran. Our government need not move into Iran and make bloody war to stop them. What is needed is a fast, hard, powerful devastation of the sites within Iran that are making the weapons (or fuel, we must not question Iran after all, it must be fuel...no?) and then we leave. Done. You do not need to move in.
In Iraq, why did the USA NEVER section of that country in three sections....Kurds, Sunni, and Shiite? Also, where is the money Iraq was to have given us for making them free? Bush promised us that the money would be returned, but where is it?
As to Scooter...yes the elite eat fish eggs at top dollar and we carp eat the maggot on the hook, everytime. However, if you and I forget to pay a traffic ticket, they make our lives hell for monhts. It is sad, for I really do love America, I just wish that it still exsisted.
~Sam
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