He stuck to the rule of law. Democrats are the ones that govern off of emotions and whims.

Libby’s life was destroyed for what?

The wisest man that every lived once said “He who is without sin cast the first stone”…

Libby deserved a fresh start and a second chance, and I am sorry that in Bush’s faith he overlooked such an opportunity to show mercy.

I’d prefer the spending of a drunken sailor to that of a sober community organizer

Bush stuck to his view of justice and integrity, and in the end, I believe he made the right call for the right reasons.

BS written by a RINO about the decision of another RINO

Dr. ZhivBlago on July 23, 2009 at 3:56 PM

Maybe if he could have defined the mission better to us, he’d have defined it better to himself. Byron York was interviewed by Laura Ingraham (some months ago) and he related an interview with Bush in 2006 (or ’07?). He described a man at a loss about what to do.

Bush was in over his head and that’s the problem with political dynasties and self-anointed aristocracy.

Did he lie? I don’t know, but for him to take a hit because the unhinged left could not get to Bush and Cheney is the reason I donate to Libby’s fund. His family deserves better.

Bush the younger lacked the will to hit the media back.

sven10077 on July 23, 2009 at 10:17 AM

I found that to be very frustrating while he was president, especially concerning Iraq.

I didn’t know until last year that Saddam had 550 metric tons of yellow cake uranium ore stockpiled. Why? Oh, it was just leftovers say the Libtards. He could have sold the stuff and made some money with the IAEA’s blessings, but instead held on to it which is highly suspicious.

President Bush could also have made the case that going into Iraq did more than take out Saddam but also put a democracy smack dab in the Middle East and right next to both Syria and Iran…and they don’t like it. Throw Afghanistan in there and you have a very different geopolitical picture than you did pre 9-11.

Finally, without huge military presence in the Middle East there’d be tens of thousands more terrorists alive today and Al-Qaeda would be much more potent. Bush was right when he said “bring ‘em on!”. You have to fight these guys where they are, not where it’s more convenient.

Del Dolemonte on July 23, 2009 at 3:29 PM

Hahaha!!! That is funny. I got some good laughs in 2005, because I kept seeing a Kerry sticker — on a super-sized, V8, 4WD SUV!

Believe it or not, I saw a car today that was still proudly displaying a Kerri-Silky bumper sticker from 5 years ago.

Del Dolemonte on July 23, 2009 at 3:29 PM

LMAO!

how could anyone have voted for Gore or Kerry?

riverrat10k on July 23, 2009 at 2:46 PM

Believe it or not, I saw a car today that was still proudly displaying a Kerri-Silky bumper sticker from 5 years ago.

“He lied about getting a blow job. Big deal.”

Well, at least she admitted the lying part. Most liberals just think he was “attacked” only for the blow job part.

Jaynie59 on July 23, 2009 at 10:46 AM

You need to tell your clueless friend this true story.

During his first term, Clinton had his Justice Department successfully prosecute a female Federal employee. For the crime of lying about sex under oath.

She was not held to be above the law, but he was.

exhelodrvr on July 23, 2009

And we also saw how well letting the media pick our candidate worked out, didn’t we?

All I know is that Bush garnered bi-partisan support for an unconstitutional bailout that should have NEVER been enacted. Then Bush promptly signed it into law and provided Obama with executive branch precedence to kick the door wide open for unfettered fraud, waste and abuse of public funds while simultaneously blaming Bush for the state of the economy at every turn. All else that Bush did or didn’t do is moot at this point. That’s his legacy. He turned the other modertae christian cheek, caved to the Fed and Treasury investment banker cabal while screwing America in the process.

Fletch54 on July 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM

This is the reality of our world. But how could anyone have voted for Gore or Kerry? Bush sucked in many ways, was good in others. I think either of these two would have been worse than Bush (no way to prove it), and Obama is showing us why.

Bush stuck to his view of justice and integrity, and in the end, I believe he made the right call for the right reasons.

What I want to know is exactly what he lied about. Was it a deliberate lie in that we know for sure that Libby knowlingly disseminating false information or did Libby possibly misremember a conversation.

Ironically, if it is the later then Bush is letting Libby take the fall for the same spurious reasoning that Bush was castigated by the Left.

TIME creating a distraction from Obama.

That’s all it is.

fogw on July 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM

They’ve sat on that one for six months. Maybe they just didn’t have anything else interesting to report this week;)

james23 on July 23, 2009 at 1:02 PM

Same here. Bush II did pay attention to his soldiers and inspired some affection, but there are larger issues — like misusing the military and committing them to open-ended conflict to re-make those countries in his own image. The soldiers and their families deserve better.

Among the most disgusting things he did was to try to sell out American sovereignty when he delayed a Texas execution. International commissions have no constitutional business here. Impeachment and treason come to mind.

I place “Libby’s scalp” on the same list of Bush 2nd Term Accomplishments that features, among other things: TARP, the auto bailouts and nuclear Iran.

He characterized Cheney as a friend and a good Vice President but said his pardon request had little internal support. If the presidential staff were polled, the result would be 100 to 1 against a pardon, Bush joked.

Sounds like Bush was more worried about himself and informal votes of his staff to excuse himself from a pardon. That’s despicable. The pardon gives a president the chance to see the forest, not just the trees. Legalism is a lame excuse to deny justice is today’s environment.

Libby was left twisting in the wind by Bush. He was left at the mercy of leftist liars and media. None of this should come as a surprise; it was just a magnitude greater than the betrayals of the first Bush.

The Bushes spent two generations giving people a choice between the shiv and death of a thousand cuts. Enough. No more Bushes; no more RINOs. Not with my vote.

Why was he not brought up on charges?

The fact that he was employed by the Saudis at the time and lied about the results of his trip certainly make a treason charge seem reasonable.

And as for Valerie Plame, does the CIA make no considerations of nepotism? Why was there not a full investigation into how the spouse of an analyst, who was working for a foreign power mind you, got sent on a mission for which he had no experience or training for?

At last night’s press conference, President Obama epitomized what’s gone wrong among our country’s elites.
Without respect for the facts already known and in prejudgment President Obama declared his friend Harvard University professor Henry…

the Oklahoma City bombing reasserted his Presidentness.

YYZ on July 23, 2009 at 11:51 AM

And the WACO bombing reasserted his gallactically stupid choice for AG.

Nevertheless, the Dems wanted to f**k W, and they played the Scooter trial to his sense of integrity. It was a show trial, completely designed to make the Bush Administration look corrupt.

IMO it was well played…dirty as hell but well played.

Give it time, though…they’ll get theirs.