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Is anybody really surprised by this?
I mean, escaping the consequences of your actions seems to be par for the course when it comes to Republicans. Whether it's the shameful pardoning of Nixon by his crony Ford or the pardons that Bush Sr. set down for the Iran Contra conspirators, or to the present day with the almost constant revelations of wrongdoing that somehow never lead to accountability, the Republicans have made a habit of not taking responsibility for their actions. This merely proves what we all already knew, namely that the current administration sees nothing wrong with committing any act as long as it's for their own gain. Especially strange is Sen. Fred Thompson's assertion that Libby is a "good American...who has done a lot for his country," which would be laughable if we weren't talking about a man who was just convicted of a crime that is essentially tantamount to treason. If I were to out a secret agent of the American government, no matter how right I felt I was in doing so, I'd be lucky to ever see the outside of a prison cell again, and yet Libby did this for the most cynical reason imaginable. This is what makes Bush's statement, that the sentence was unjust, so insane. Thirty months, or in other words two and a half years, is a small punishment for such a heinous crime.
Bush acts like he cares about national security, and yet he commuted the sentence of a man who has jeopardized that security about as much as anybody possibly could. We need our agents, and if the current administration actually cared about the safety of our nation and its people it wouldn't be outing them and possibly causing their deaths. Bush seems to feel noble for keeping the $250,000 fine that was levied, as if that's a fitting punishment. If the Bush administration doesn't want to be accountable to the laws of the land, then they shouldn't pretend that they actually care about our great nation because what they've done is made a mockery of everything that we're supposed to stand for as a people.
I mean, escaping the consequences of your actions seems to be par for the course when it comes to Republicans. Whether it's the shameful pardoning of Nixon by his crony Ford or the pardons that Bush Sr. set down for the Iran Contra conspirators, or to the present day with the almost constant revelations of wrongdoing that somehow never lead to accountability, the Republicans have made a habit of not taking responsibility for their actions. This merely proves what we all already knew, namely that the current administration sees nothing wrong with committing any act as long as it's for their own gain. Especially strange is Sen. Fred Thompson's assertion that Libby is a "good American...who has done a lot for his country," which would be laughable if we weren't talking about a man who was just convicted of a crime that is essentially tantamount to treason. If I were to out a secret agent of the American government, no matter how right I felt I was in doing so, I'd be lucky to ever see the outside of a prison cell again, and yet Libby did this for the most cynical reason imaginable. This is what makes Bush's statement, that the sentence was unjust, so insane. Thirty months, or in other words two and a half years, is a small punishment for such a heinous crime.
Bush acts like he cares about national security, and yet he commuted the sentence of a man who has jeopardized that security about as much as anybody possibly could. We need our agents, and if the current administration actually cared about the safety of our nation and its people it wouldn't be outing them and possibly causing their deaths. Bush seems to feel noble for keeping the $250,000 fine that was levied, as if that's a fitting punishment. If the Bush administration doesn't want to be accountable to the laws of the land, then they shouldn't pretend that they actually care about our great nation because what they've done is made a mockery of everything that we're supposed to stand for as a people.