Bush Unpardonable If Libby Served Sentence

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Seems a lot of people including former president Clinton and even Bush supporters are up in arms over his pardon commutation of loyal subject Scooter Libby. Oh what the heck, we know Bush will pardon him before he leaves office, so lets keep it as pardon.

No-Fault Foreign Policy
July 3, 2007 - When it comes to Iraq, or anything having to do with Iraq, George W. Bush is still running a no-fault foreign policy. Iraq is a quagmire, a tragedy of accumulated human errors that may be unparalleled in American history. Yet the president has not held a single member of his national-security team publicly responsible for any of those errors.

Why should Bush hold anyone accountable? They’re just taking orders.

No-Fault Excerpt:
Is it any wonder that Bush thought 30 months for lying over the case for war was “excessive,” when the executors of that war have completely escaped whipping? George Tenet and L. Paul Bremer III got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Paul Wolfowitz was awarded the World Bank (until he botched that too), and Donald Rumsfeld was called a “superb leader” by Bush as he was gently ushered off to retirement last November.

Why should the executors of the Iraq War be whipped at all? Whether it be Pentagon civilian officers, generals or frontline soldiers, they’re just taking orders and doing their job to the best of their ability. Our country went to war with the president we had, not the president we wish we had.

Read John Kass from the Chicago Tribune call Bush’s decision to pardon Libby “appalling” while simultaneously ripping Democrats for their reaction and calling Plame and Wilson political opportunists.

Of course Libby’s sentence was excessive. Scooter Libby is just like any other loyal soldier, he was just following orders from Bush and Cheney. To cut back on the President would amount to treason no matter how wrong and treasonous the orders given are to the country. And you can include Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, and “heckuva job Brownie” in with the rest of those serving at the pleasure of this president.

But just for the novelty, let’s pretend their actions were NOT carried out on orders from Bush or Cheney, that these cabinet members and appointees were all acting independently from the White House. Does that make you feel any better?