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May 17, 2007

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Annoyed

Libby co-operated, and now he's charged with lying. And convicted by a jury in the People's Republic of Columbia.

Richard Armitage, who was actually responsible for the leak, has not been charged, because he sided with the Left. But innocent people were invesitigated for months after the prosecutor knew the source of the leak.

Libby is being scapegoated by left-wingers trying to insure defeat in Iraq. "Defeat at any price": the new Democratic slogan.

Nobody Knows

Isn't it ironic that Mrs. Plame chose a nonprofit legal team who identifies itself with words like Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington while the Veep and Rove and co. hide behind what they believe is the best legal team their money can buy? Frankly, if they didn't think they had something to lose, they wouldn't take the steps that they are taking...
It is equally ironic that our President, a man who has proven to be a serial liar and who obfuscates every attempt to hold him at his word could have anything to say to anyone about ethical or moral behavior. His entire life is one botched coverup. He tanked every business he ever touched, he tried to hide his DUI and drug abuse, he tried to hide his sorry excuse for military service, he has tried to hide damn near everything anyone wanted to take a close look at.... And the VEEP is clearly bellicose and boorish and has all the charisma of a brick...
Ironically, neither of them are statemen or orators and neither have lifted a finger to do a single selfless act in their entire lives... they are greedy, self-serving and manipulative....
And somehow they claim power though we didn't elect them.... and now we let them run the reputation and the budget of the US into the ground so that they can set up their corporate cronies.
The only thing in Washington as stinky and distasteful as these men and their agenda is the vast majority of our elected officials who didn't stand up to them in the begining and now, out of fear of losing their offices, are "standing up to the administration". Oh, that's ironic... even more irony-y (see Team America) then the quagmire that Rumsfeld and Cheney created.

Impeach the Neoconmen, and hold all of our elected officials accountable for their lack of moral compass and intestinal fortitude when our reputation and our security are at stake.

Lord Andrew J. Andrews II

I heard speculation round these here wired parts de udder day says dem Republicans may be not too nice folk. Think this might do be the case?

Alex S.

Isn't it ironic that it was okay for Repulicans to impeach Clinton for getting a dirty with an intern (which killed no one) but that Democrats can't impeach Bush for taking us to war (which killed thousands)? No one is above the law and no one should have guarenteed immunity. If you do the crime, you do the time! It's that simple!

Sunny

I could not have expressed my thoughts any better that the "ironic and scary" comments.

Kudos.

Walt Hutchens

Isn't it ironic that a trial which central charge was lying to an investigator didn't reveal the truth that the Administration had manipulated intelligence and squelched any critics on a matter no less grave than:
a) manipulating the United Nations
b) commencing an attack in violation of international law and disregard of the aforementioned UN resolution
c) progress of the Iraq campaign

Regardless of this Plame decision, the Bush Administration has acted and will continue to act with both immunity and impunity.

Long Live King George!
Now that's, ironic

Buster Cherry

Isn't it ironic and scary that satire and irony are so often wasted on the siphylatic reader who cannot connect the dots between an international photo-op stunt including the pilotal codpiece of a president uttering his Zed-Lepplinish banter, 'Bring it on...'
and the conduct of politics of destruction by morality based lunatics on the fringe of empowering a nuclear acquisition bent jihadist nation... motivated entirely and soley on the immorality of the Decider?

Aeschyylus

Isn't it ironic that

a) The special prosecutor determined that leaking the information was not a prosecutable offense by him (even the woman who wrote the law stated that Plame did not qualify as one of the covert types covered by it), and Libby was let go from the administration as a degree of accountability, though convicted not of breaking that law but of lying to investigators, and

b) that public officials of some ranks were given immunity from before this country was founded -- it is only a question of whether that immunity applies as it most often does, and finally

c) that PH above wants to blame the insurgency on a leak made by Richard Armitage, established in the press to be gabby to a fault, and though a deputy of Colin Powell, not a particular ally of the Bush Admin's policies in Iraq. In fact, someone who opposed them and would not have logically outed Plame as part of any Bush admin. "vendetta".

In fine, not ironic, but absurd.

Kelly B.

Isn't it ironic that Bush asserted his administration would punish 'anyone connected with the outing' and yet he remains defiant, unimpeached and our enemies were emboldened to begin an insurgency in Iraq because his weak morals showed over outing Valerie Plame?

PHYLLIS B.

Isn't it ironic and scary that these slimy "public officials" want immunity for doing something patently illegal. They took an oath of office to unhold the constitution and laws of the country. Now they want immunity from denigrating the laws of the country that tried to defame a civil servant who was supposed to be in cognito.

PHYLLIS B.

Isn't it ironic and scary that these slimy "public officials" want immunity for doing something patently illegal. They took an oath of office to unhold the constitution and laws of the country. Now they want immunity from denigrating the laws of the country that tried to defame a civil servant who was supposed to be in cognito.

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