Letters to the Editor
WeikuBoy
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 62
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Pardon Me, Libby Lied (They Died)
[Read the article: Libby and the White House book club]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Paul is right, Elephantman. If and when poor little Scooter is given a Get Out of Jail Free Card by the co-conspirators he's protecting, technically he will no longer be a convicted felon. But he will always be a liar -- a perjurer who obstructed justice -- according to the verdict of a jury of his peers. (Unless you want to go two out of three.)
As long as you're still here, you never answered my question from an earlier thread, in which you defined victory in Iraq as "peace, freedom, and prosperity for all Iraqis" -- or something to that effect. Personally, I'd have gone with something a bit less sexy but perhaps more feasible, like "water, electricity, and gasoline"; but it's your call, you can define victory however you like. My question, you will recall, is when later this year it becomes obvious that this Bush-Cheney escalation has NOT brought "peace, freedom, and prosperity for all Iraqis" will you and your ilk finally concede that "victory" is not an option, and that it is time to leave Iraq and start going after the real terrorists of 9/11?
I'm still waiting for an answer.
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Vaya con Dios, El Hypocrito
[Read the article: Libby and the White House book club]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Elephantman" has a habit of bugging out like this whenever the going gets tough. My guess is he took his Viagra and headed to the Dominican for a weekend with the boys.
While we await his return, Jonathan Turley on 'Countdown' explained that a Libby pardon would be unprecedented because it involves a breach of the public trust by a high-level govt official; because five years have not passed since his conviction; and because the pardonee has not yet been sentenced, much less "tasted" his punishment (i.e., prison). "Disgraceful" was Turley's rather persuasive summation of the idea of a Libby pardon.
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Bad Weather in the Dominican Republic?
[Read the article: Libby and the White House book club]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephantman, working on a Saturday over at the RNC? Your questions have of course already been answered -- pity you don't like the answers. To wit: that the campaign to smear Joseph Wilson within the Bush-Cheney high command might have included a criminal conspiracy within the OVP (or broader?) to deliberately "out" a covert agent; however, the investigation is stalled unless and until Libby decides to tell the truth.
That's how I read things, from my perch in the middle of nowhere. It is difficult to know for sure, because the matter is being handled by a real prosecutor who (quite unlike GOP operative Kenneth Starr) tries his cases in court rather than in the media. It is obvious, though, that if Rove was The Architect, Libby is The Wall of Silence. Omerta, brother.
Now answer my question. In a couple of months, when it is painfully obvious this "surge" (i.e., escalation) has failed to bring "peace, freedom, and prosperity to all Iraqis" (or even electricity, water, and a decent chance of not being killed) will you join your fellow citizens in agreeing that the Bush-Cheney War has failed and that it is time to leave Iraq and start going after the real terrorists (as in 9/11)? Or will you all demand more escalations?
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Headline News
[Read the article: From Ailes, some "fair and balanced" campaign comedy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow! The Nevada Dems promptly fire Faux News over anti-Dem remarks; and MoveOn observes that Faux News is not a real news organization, and calls for a boycott of the GOP's right-wing disinformation channel. Not just in the same week, but in the same story!
See, that's how it's done! It's like 1918, when the Allies finally figured out how to use tanks, airplanes, artillery and infantry together in a concerted attack. Brilliant! Of course, the GOP has been doing this every day for the last fifteen years or so; but better late than never!
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C'mon, GOP Staffer
[Read the article: Libby and the White House book club]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These things have already been explained. On the off-chance you really did miss it, click on my previous letters and go back four or five posts to the one titled "[Explaining] Facts to Wingnuts, [is like Casting] Pearls Before Swine."
Your use of "assuming arguendo" tells me you have some legal education, albeit from a second- or third-tier school that didn't let you in on the little secret that using 50-cent Latin phrases instead of English is pretentious. Be that as it may, even you must have a vague recollection of the importance of things like "evidence" and "intent" and "proof beyind a reasonable doubt" in criminal cases. (Yes? No?) Important, at least, to a real prosecutor. (Not to be confused with a partisan like Ken Starr who fixes his case around the policy.)
Have you at least seen 'The Godfather'? Well, think of Rove as Tessio, and Cheney as Fat Clemenza. The only way to stop a criminal like Clemenza is to get the (truthful) testimony of the one or two guys to whom and through whom he gives his orders. Which in the Case of the Outed CIA Agent is Libby. (Who, I'm learning, was along with Wolfowitz one of the main driving forces behind the lies about WMD used to sell the disastrous Iraq War.) This is how all the GOP's crimes are prosecuted, by going up the ladder from Hunt to Liddy to Dean to Mitchell to Haldeman to the unindicted co-conspirators who resign in disgrace.
Since you don't dare answer my question of whether this is merely the first of many surges in Iraq the GOP has planned against the wishes of the American people, tell me this: why did Libby lie? Obviously, HE thought he and the OVP had committed a crime in outing a CIA agent; otherwise, why commit perjury then, and why go to Club Fed now? Why else would former GOP Minister of Disinformation Ari Fleischer demand immunity? The CIA certainly felt a crime was committed. And Prosecutor Fitzgerald is still very interested in Libby's testimony -- if and when poor little Scooter wants to tell the truth. You tell me.