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The
National Review wasted no time squealing for a pardon for the vice president\’s convicted felon aide. It\’s what we all have suspected would be in the
air on this day. It\’s what should be expected from Scooter Libby, the man who
argued for a pardon for Mark Rich. Remember him? The guy who had wingnuts screaming
to high heaven back in the good old days of Bubba.
But in the mix today we are now getting the
visceral reaction of the wingnuts, finally coming out of their fantasy lives
to once again smear Joe Wilson. Not even a guilty verdict is enough to calm
the conservatives. They\’re still rehashing the trumped up Republican report
that crafted a case against Joe Wilson, which he long
ago rebutted in writing, including a
letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee. But Republicans being, well,
Republicans, don\’t let facts alter their fantasies. All the links
take you to where the truth is laid
out.
The truth is what infuriates the Republicans: Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are heroes. But they have paid for their courage
and so has this country. Because let\’s remember, Ms. Plame was a WMD analyst
when the vice president\’s office targeted her husband, hoping to get a twofer and outing a classifed CIA operative in the process. The campaign
against the Wilson\’s was un-American and dangerous to our national security interests, but there\’s no reason to think it will
stop today. The country has paid through the disgraced presidency and vice presidency
of Bush and Cheney, as well as in the Iraq war, including the horrendous mismanagement
and mistreatment of our soldiers from front line to homeland.
As for Scooter Libby, a civil suit awaits. As for the vice president, he is
disgraced. Then there is Mr. Bush. He has the dubious honor of having the highest
aide ever convicted in an Administration since Iran-Contra. Finally, a Reagan
moment.
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