i was watching fox news last night and they were:
a-running a list of people pardoned by bill clinton
and
b-asking why clinton wasn’t thrown in jail for lying under oath
so, simply:
a-the people pardoned by clinton had committed crimes that had nothing to do with clinton. scooter libby committed a crime at the request of bush and cheney, and while working in the white house.
this makes bush’s commutation of his sentence unjust and despicable.
kind of like ‘go commit this crime for us, but don’t worry, there’ll be no real punishment,
we’ll make sure of it’. ugh. gross.
b-clinton lied in a civil suit. and he lied about a blowjob. he didn’t lie to cover up illegal actions that involved releasing the name of an undercover cia agent at the request of the president. and clinton was acquitted by the senate.
acquitted, to break it down for our right-wing buddies, means not guilty.
scooter libby was convicted by a jury and sentenced by a federal judge.
bush showed his contempt for our judicial system by overturning a sentence decided by a grand jury and federal judge.
the same right wing pundits who were outraged about paris hilton possibly not going to jail for a traffic violation are in favor of scooter libby not going to jail, even though he committed a federal crime before a grand jury, a federal crime that compromised national security and was committed, again, at the request
of the president and vice president.
this is a low point, even for the inept who currently live and work in the white house.
moby
p.s-it was roughly 4 years ago that bush pronounced ‘mission accomplished’ in iraq.
oh, and 4 years ago bush taunted the insurgents, saying “bring it on”.
i wonder how the families of the tens of thousands of soldiers who’ve been killed and maimed since then feel about bush asking the insurgents to ‘bring it on’?