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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Whatever. There are thousands of slimebags sitting in jail right now that deserve a walk more than Scooter Libby does.
I should have known that a man that gave George Tenet a Presidential Medal of Freedom for intelligence work leading up to Iraq would also give a walk to Libby. Accountability for fuck ups--especially for fuck ups having to do with this god awful war--isn't really the calling card of this administration.
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The first statement is true. Libby is a unique case which happens to be a political football. Others are not. That's a cruel reality, but not a point for this debate. You could apply that argument to just about every sentencing in the country on any given day.
The second point confounds me. I see the sense in giving Libby a pass, for the same reasons I felt Clinton should not have been impeached and Henry Hyde and Ken Starr should have been prosecuted for abuse of process when they wasted $50 million in tax dollars on that senseless witch hunt. I see no sense at all in giving George Tenet anything but a foot on the ass as he left the office. He was a whore who played along and then afterward tried to rehab himself by crying "I was pushed into it!" At least Kissinger had the balls to take his war criminal status with a laugh and tell his detractors to fuck themselves. And McNamara has since admitted his errors (Fog of War is a brilliant movie).
Tenet was a fucking simp. They ought to heat his medal to 400 degrees and brand his forehead with it, so he can spend the rest of his days ambling Georgetown with the Scarlet Letter his kind deserve.
