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One beltway insider is quoted saying the neo-cons are "weighted down by the sheer, glaring unfairness" of Libby's sentence. And there's the rub. None seem the least weighted down by the sheer, glaring unfairness of sentencing soldiers to repeated and longer tours of duty in a war induced by deception. It was left to the hawkish academic Fouad Ajami to state it baldly, as he pleaded on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal for Bush to pardon Libby. For believing "in the nobility of this war," wrote Ajami, Scooter Libby had himself become a "casualty" -- a fallen soldier the president dare not leave behind on the beltway battlefield. Not a word in the entire article about the real fallen soldiers. The honest-to-god dead and dying and wounded. Not a word about the chaos or the cost. All the beltway warriors can muster is a plea of mercy for one of their own who lied to cover their tracks...
...And from the former Governor of Virginia, James Gilmore, a staunch conservative, comes this verdict: "If the public believes there's one law for a certain group of people in high places and another law for regular people, then you will destroy the law and destroy the system." So it may well be, as the Hartford Courant said editorially, that Mr. Libby is "a nice guy, a loyal and devoted patriot"...but none of that excuses perjury or obstruction of justice. If it did, truth wouldn't matter much."
I would agree. There's something rotten about someone found guilty of a crime not serving his sentence with a little dignity. And our leaders should support the law. Yet Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfawitz, Delay all extolling the virtues of a man who perjured himself. And this is not a case of trying the case in the media. Scooter was tried in court, and sentenced by conservative judges. Considering the Republican party is known to get all up in a tiff over conduct, especially when it comes to receiving blow jobs, you'd think y'all would be galvanized on not endorsing any sort of lying or dishonesty, especially when it comes to exposing CIA agents.
Oh wait. He was lying to protect you guys. That's different.
While the truth may set you free, I suppose lying keeps you free. For a while.
...And from the former Governor of Virginia, James Gilmore, a staunch conservative, comes this verdict: "If the public believes there's one law for a certain group of people in high places and another law for regular people, then you will destroy the law and destroy the system." So it may well be, as the Hartford Courant said editorially, that Mr. Libby is "a nice guy, a loyal and devoted patriot"...but none of that excuses perjury or obstruction of justice. If it did, truth wouldn't matter much."
I would agree. There's something rotten about someone found guilty of a crime not serving his sentence with a little dignity. And our leaders should support the law. Yet Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfawitz, Delay all extolling the virtues of a man who perjured himself. And this is not a case of trying the case in the media. Scooter was tried in court, and sentenced by conservative judges. Considering the Republican party is known to get all up in a tiff over conduct, especially when it comes to receiving blow jobs, you'd think y'all would be galvanized on not endorsing any sort of lying or dishonesty, especially when it comes to exposing CIA agents.
Oh wait. He was lying to protect you guys. That's different.
While the truth may set you free, I suppose lying keeps you free. For a while.
