Libby Verdict: Where My Sympathies Lie

"guidelines would give Scooter at least a year and a half"...

And possessing drugs can easily get you far more than that... even stealing food can even get you more time than that (irregardless if you're starving or not).

RoadRunner has a survey regarding if people believe that bush will give "scooter" a presidential pardon. I wouldn't doubt it in a second. Yet we have people falsely imprisoned for decades (such as Leonard Peltier) who are denied time and time again in spite of the evidence as to their innocence.

Libby, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush all lied about
Wmd"s in Iraq. This has caused a tragic war, endless suffering, broken lives, shattered bodies expenditure of billions of dollars and the end of a covert career. Libby belongs in jail along with
others of his neo-con cohorts. What ever happens to any of them I will have no pity for them. This scandal was obviously and act of revenge against
Joe Wilson and I hope he does well with his civil suit.
Leonard Adams

Leonard, my hope is that this debacle with get people to open their eyes and see this government for what it is- evil that claims to be good.

Nearly every problem we face today originated in US corporate greed and American hegemony. Even 911 has some of its roots in US Mideast policy.

This is not absolving people like Osama from guilt- but the fact is that if the US had lived up to its promise and not its reality, the world would be a much better and more just place (and probably far more peaceful!).

This latest war is just an example of the mind control being exerted upon the American public. The big difference is that it is so overt and people are becoming aware of it.

I am sorry about Libby not being tried for murder or at least aiding and abetting a killer; and when it all comes down to the main subject it is oil that translates to money

Memories tend to be short and selective. I remember the build-up to the Iraq invasion. I thought it was a bad idea - but it was the democrats that convinced me to grudgingly support the invasion.

The Dem leaders had the same information that the Bush administration had - and came to the same conclusions - Sadam had WMDs, wanted more and would share them with enemies of the US - he had to be stopped. If Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Libby lied - then so did Gore, Kerry, Clinton and Kennedy.

If Libby lied and obstructed justice - he did nothing more than Bill Clinton did - and Clinton never served time. Don't try to retort with the new lies of the Dem leaders "Libby is getting away with betraying a CIA agent" - Libby was cleared of that offense. He apparently is guilty of making conflicting statements about events that occurred years ago and disagreed with hard evidence - in which case he is guilty of nothing more than most people who have posted to this blog - only he did it under oath.

I don't feel sorry for Libby. He screwed up. He got sentenced. Now the President has commuted his sentence. He got off light - lucky for him he had friends in high places.

Unfair? Unjust? I won't argue. But let's be honest and even-handed when it comes to making judgments about others. Libby is getting away with no more than Clinton and the Dems lied about Iraq just as much as the Bushies - if you can call making bad decisions based on bad information "lies".