The big news of the day, of course, is that the wrong man was convicted of the wrong crime.
Well, no doubt Libby lied. And, sure, perjury should be punished. But it's such small potatoes compared to the bigger crime committed.
However, Libby should have been convicted of revealing the identity of a CIA agent. That is a federal offense.
The man who really should have stood trial, IMHO, was the shadow master with the bum ticker. The man who declared Joe Wilson and his wife persona non grata from the moment Mr. Wilson published an editorial that revealed the American people were being sold a bill of goods regarding Nigerian yellow cake.
Again, revealing a CIA agent's identity is a federal offense. Don't matter if you're the VP or his aide. Doesn't matter if you revealed the identity under orders, of if you're the one issuing the orders. It's called a conspiracy.
Republicans didn't invent conspiracies. They have perfected them, from the time of N*x*n to the present.
Send the guy with the bum ticker to the slammer. Send his boss, who is guilty of aiding and abetting the enemy, to Gitmo.
Do it for our brave military heroes! Do it for freedom! Do it for democracy!
Do it because they deserve to reap what they've sown - whole out-houses full.
Commenter "C", below, questions the phrase "whole out-houses full". Think about what is in an out-house. Consider how this phrase may be more appropriate for general viewing than the more common phrase referring to buckets.
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do it for the children.
When I heard the news of the long expected guilty verdict a movie scene popped into my mind - something that happens with some regularity.
Remember in the Maltese Falcon when the police are about to close in on Bogart and Greenstreet? The thug who is employed by Greenstreet is unconscious on the sofa. Bogart suggests the solution to their delimma, "Let's give 'em the gunsil."
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