- Imagine if a criminal broke into your house and made
off with your television, stereo, camera, and the gold coins you hid under
the mattress. Imagine the cops caught him speeding away. But instead of
arresting him for stealing your goods, they simply issued him a ticket
for speeding.
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- In essence, the above scenario is what happened to I.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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- Scooter was busted for telling lies to the FBI and a
grand jury and now has the distinction of being the first White House official
in 130 years to be indicted while in office.
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- But he is guilty of much larger crimes.
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- Scooter and Paul Wolfowitz are the devious criminal minds
behind the Bush gangster doctrine currently responsible for killing around
100,000 Iraqis. Scooter and Wolfowitz devised the Defense Policy Guidance
document for Dick Cheney back in 1992. It is now more or less the Bush
playbook for "pre-emptive force to prevent countries from developing
weapons of mass destruction," in other words invading Muslim countries
that do not have weapons of mass destruction. It was also used as a blueprint
when a clique of neocons cobbled together the criminal organization Project
for a New American Century. Scooter's lies were instrumental in the invasion
of Iraq-for instance, the fairy tale one of Saddam's intelligence agents
met with supposed nine eleven "ring leader" Mohamed Atta. Scooter
was so insistent this lie be included in Colin Powell's dog and pony show
at the United Nations he called him late at night in the eleventh hour
and harangued him.
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- Scooter is a shameless criminal operator. It is said
he rang the phones off the wall at the Pentagon after the Iraq invasion
to make sure Halliburton received a contract to repair oil wells destroyed
during the American invasion he formulated with Wolfowitz. As if to demonstrate
crime is well-rewarded in Bushzarro world, Wolfowitz was appointed to run
the World Bank, the largest conductor of neoliberal loan sharking on the
planet.
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- As if to further demonstrate his criminal propensity,
Scooter once told an aide he planned to stay on as Cheney's top adviser
until "I get indicted or something." In other words, he understands
full well he is a criminal and he thinks his crimes are cute and ingenious.
"You never get in trouble for something you don't say," Libby
also quipped, using an old Sam Rayburn maxim.
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- Scooter, according to the neocon friendly Washington
Post, "has looked gaunt and tired of late, according to those who
have seen him, and he told at least two friends and associates that he
was thinking of leaving the administration after the 2004 election to spend
more time writing and skiing."
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- Now he will get the chance. Scooter will not be spending
time writing his prison memoirs, though-by the time he is officially indicted,
charged, and tried (and then upon conviction appeals and goes through another
trial), Bush will pardon him on his way out of office, as Clinton pardoned
the Zionist gangster Marc Rich in the waning hours of his administration.
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- Of course, this assumes Bush will leave office in 2008.
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- Prison, after all, is for crackheads, not well-connected
war criminals, who at worst receive suspended sentences.
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- Scooter will probably end up like Oliver North. Ollie
was indicted on sixteen felony counts and convicted of three in connection
to the so-called Iran-Contra Affair-accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding
and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction
of documents. His conviction was over-turned by a three judge panel. As
a reward, Ollie received a book contract and eventually his own television
show on Fox News, thus once again demonstrating crime pays.
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- I don't know if Scooter will get his own TV show.
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- But if he does, somebody please find the remote and change
the channel.
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