Booman: The People vs. the Neo-Cons

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The People vs. the Neo-Cons

by BooMan
Fri Jun 8th, 2007 at 12:30:36 PM EST
I have to admit that Scooter Libby's supporters are relentless. And I am beginning to get a better sense for why they are so keen to see Libby avoid jail time. Fouad Ajami pleads Libby's case in today's Wall Street Journal. As I was reading Ajami's reasoning it occurred to me that these neo-cons see the prosecution of Libby in much the same way as I saw the Paula Jones case. The Jones case was so frivolous that I didn't really care that it eventually caught Bill Clinton in a perjury trap. They never should have been investigating Clinton's sex life in the first place. There were times when I teetered towards feeling that Clinton should resign, but then I always came back to the idea that a resignation would vindicate the strategy of using civil courts to hound a sitting president.

I think that is what these neo-cons think in the case of Libby. Here is how Ajami puts it.

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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/6/8/123036/9480

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1. Neo-cons are warmongers...period.

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2. Good Article

"But Scooter Libby made the decision to be the fall guy."

No joke.

Clinton's escapades are as equivilant to the Irag disaster as Saddam was to Bin Laden. You'ld have to be a moron (or a congressman) to buy either premise.