Begging his pardon (Bill Moyers)

[struggle4progress]

RAW STORY
Published: Friday June 15, 2007

We have yet another remarkable revelation of the mindset of Washington's ruling clique of neoconservative elites-the people who took us to war from the safety of their Beltway bunkers. Even as Iraq grows bloodier by the day, their passion of the week is to keep one of their own from going to jail. ~snip~

You would have thought their man had been ordered to Guantanamo, so intense was the reaction from his cheerleaders. They flooded the judge's chambers with letters of support for their comrade and took to the airwaves in a campaign to "free Scooter."

Vice President Cheney issued a statement praising Libby as "a man...of personal integrity"-without even a hint of irony about their collusion to browbeat the CIA into mangling intelligence about Iraq in order to justify the invasion.

"A patriot, a dedicated public servant, a strong family man, and a tireless, honorable, selfless human being," said Donald Rumsfeld-the very same Rumsfeld who had claimed to know the whereabouts of weapons of mass destruction and who boasted of "bulletproof" evidence linking Saddam to 9/11. "A good person" and "decent man," said the one-time Pentagon adviser Kenneth Adelman, who had predicted the war in Iraq would be a "cakewalk." Paul Wolfowitz wrote a four-page letter to praise "the noblest spirit of selfless service" that he knew motivated his friend Scooter. Yes, that Paul Wolfowitz, who had claimed Iraqis would "greet us as liberators" and that Iraq would "finance its own reconstruction." The same Paul Wolfowitz who had to resign recently as president of the World Bank for using his office to show favoritism to his girlfriend. Paul Wolfowitz turned character witness. ~snip~

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bill_Moyers_Begging_his_pardon_0615.html

[blueworld]

1. Moyers is magnificent

Instead of a pardon, how about if the judge does offer a creative sentence for poor Scooter? 12 months in Baghdad with no body armor, but wearing an ankle bracelet so they can find his leg when it's blown off. 12 months in Afghanistan, fighting the terrorists over there so we can continue to spread democracy among the poppies. 3 months in Guantanamo being creatively interrogated in order to definitively discover who ordered the whole Plame thing & the deception about the war in Iraq.

And last but not least, 3 months recuperation at Walter Reed, feeding the roaches & being honored & cared for. Doesn't Kristol think that would be fair? :sarcasm:

[L0oniX]

3. Don't forget to give him some "yellow cake" for his birthday.

:nuke:

[Stardust]

5. Yeah!!! What you said!!!

:mad: :toast: :smoke: :yourock: :banghead: :headbang: :applause: :rofl: :patriot: :yoiks:

[Patsy Stone]

2. Video link from PBS:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06152007/watch.html?playertype=windowsmedia;speed=480;mediatype=video;media=%2Fwnet%2Fmoyers%2Fjournal%2F1110%2FBMJ1110_libby_320.mov%2C%2Fwnet%2Fmoyers%2Fjournal%2F1110%2FBMJ1110_libby_480.mov%2C%2Fwnet%2Fmoyers%2Fjournal%2F1110%2FBMJ1110_libby_320.wmv%2C%2Fwnet%2Fmoyers%2Fjournal%2F1110%2FBMJ1110_libby_480.wmv;helptemplate=%2Fmoyers%2Fjournal%2Fwatch%2Fhelp_template.html;playertemplate=%2Fmoyers%2Fjournal%2Fwatch%2Fvideo_template.html;basepath=%2Fmoyers%2Fjournal%2F06152007%2Fwatch.html;prefchange=1

[Uncle Joe]

4. Moyer's Journal was a magnificent program,

and all Moyers did was state the obvious contradiction between what the neocons think is fit for the people and what's fit for them selves.

I have no doubt if Bush/Cheney and the neocons were on the Titanic, they would be partying while they put an incompetent in charge and after the ship hit the iceberg, they would be the first ones in the lifeboats.

[Marrak]

6. I hear Scooter's planning on

adhering to his nickname in the slammer...:bounce: :toast: :wtf: