GW Commutes Libbys Sentence

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Does this strike anybody else as nepotism of the highest degree? The guy was convicted to 30 months imprisonment due to his involvement in the shameful Plame affair.

Now George Bush rides in on his high horse and tells them that actually he doesn't want his friend going to jail. What a bunch of utter BS. How the hell does the US function if this sort of bull**** is allowed to go on?

GW should be hung slowly and painfully from the nearest tree for crimes to humanity.. Through Cheney and his other cronies up there too.

***** sake..

Links:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070702-4.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair
 
No worse than the pardons that Clinton made. It just one of those huge flaws in the american system, and unfortunately you don't generally get to be President by having morals.
 
What a two-faced president. Way to go on making your aproval ratings dip even further below than Nixon's during the Watergate scandal.
 
Clinton may have pardoned people and that was wrong too. But he never pardoned anyone who had committed treason as far as I am aware.
 
I find it amazing that the US president has the power to do that.

Talk about a power wide open to abuse.

That place has much much too much power concentrated into one position.

If they are supposed to be the leaders of the free world i wonder if there is a single thing in their political system worthy of replicating here.
 
Stolly said:
If they are supposed to be the leaders of the free world i wonder if there is a single thing in their political system worthy of replicating here.
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Well for starters, at least the majority of their electorate elected their leader :p
 
Killerkebab said:
Well for starters, at least the majority of their electorate elected their leader :p
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US electoral districts are gerrymandered beyond belief, electoral fraud is not all that uncommon and the actual elections themselves are sometimes run like a 4th rate banana republic. Hanging chads anyone ? Months of legal wrangling ? The 2000 election was decided in law suits not the electoral process.

Plus its an effective 2 party state, hardly something that would improve anything over here.
 
Stolly said:
US electoral districts are gerrymandered beyond belief, electoral fraud is not all that uncommon and the actual elections themselves are sometimes run like a 4th rate banana republic. Hanging chads anyone ? Months of legal wrangling ? The 2000 election was decided in law suits not the electoral process.

Plus its an effective 2 party state, hardly something that would improve anything over here.
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Because we don't have a two party system here?
 
Killerkebab said:
Because we don't have a two party system here?
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The lib dems control a large number local councils and their 63 MP's is the same approximate number as the current labour majority, meaning lib dem support can make the difference between winning or losing votes.

So no, we don't.
 
Does the Queen in this country have the power to pardon people? Does anyone know the last time a ruling monarch actually did pardon someone?
 
scorza said:
Does the Queen in this country have the power to pardon people? Does anyone know the last time a ruling monarch actually did pardon someone?
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I think she does, but she's not going to use it to give favour to a political hack, because she's apolitical.

Another way our system is superior to the American one.
 
scorza said:
Does the Queen in this country have the power to pardon people? Does anyone know the last time a ruling monarch actually did pardon someone?
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She has the power to pardon people from the death sentence, by commuting the sentence to a life term, this is done in extreme cases in the Caribbean.
 
Bush is just doing what he does best, looking after his own, he knows that Libby is a hardcore republican man and to support his jail term would have set a lot of Bush's most ardent followers against him.

All we can hope for is that it unites the rest of the US populace to vote against him, although i'm not sure how much i want Hilary Clinton in the whitehouse, it would mean that the last 20 years of rule at the most powerful country on earth has been carried out by 2 families - scary stuff.

Not sure if Obama is any better, i don't like a lot of his rhetoric at the moment.
 
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