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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:12 PM
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White House: President Bush watched the verdict and was saddened for Libby and his wife

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/06/cia.leak/index.html

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As court concluded Tuesday, Libby's wife, Harriet Grant, hugged every member of the defense team. She was teary-eyed as she kissed Wells on the cheek.

The White House issued a statement that President Bush watched the verdict and was saddened for Libby and his wife.

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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:13 PM
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1. I bet he was having some bad thoughts
and hoping people will feel bad for him and his wife when he visits the Hague..
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:13 PM
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2. did he offer up a sacrifice to diablo for Libby?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:13 PM
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3. Boo-hoo. I didn't think the blivet could feel any emotion. nt
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:15 PM
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6. He didn't. Some staffer just wrote a statement saying he felt emotions.
W is now having another staffer write up the speech for when W pardons Libby.

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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:14 PM
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4. Awww.. How sweet.
Hey Bush, Libby lied and he was convicted. Deal with it. Justice was served.
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:14 PM
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5. How did he "watch" it?
Same way he saw that 1st plane hit the tower? :shrug:
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:15 PM
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7. * is only worried about himself
Make no mistake. The walls are crumbing, and FAST.
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dicknbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:15 PM
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8. Hey Bush how about Joe Wilson and his wife?
Any sympathy for them? They didn't break the law after all as opposed to Libby who did. But hen you really aren't about the law are you? You are about skirting the law and out and out lying.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:16 PM
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9. Well, cue the frigging BARETTA theme, then!
Don't do the crime
If you can't do the time

Yeaaaaaaaah (Don't do it).
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riderinthestorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:16 PM
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10. they forgot the last part of that sentence, "and freaking out for himself and BFEE" nt
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:16 PM
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11. He just found out a top WH aide is a committed felon
and his only reaction is that he is saddened for the criminal.

yeah, right.

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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:16 PM
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12. As opposed to his complete lack of concern for Joseph Wilson and his wife.
And everyone affected by the outing of Brewster Jennings.
And the damage done to our national security by such actions.
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:17 PM
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13. Images on tv, images on tv...
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Mr. Ected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:17 PM
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14. I Thought BUSH Was Supposed To Clean This House
Instead, he let things play themselves out in court.

And now is "saddened".

Has this numbskull EVER heard of the word "accountability"?
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:18 PM
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15. How can CNN deliver such a canned statement?
Come on CNN give us a break. There were so many White House high muckity mucks involved in this that Bush had to be up to his neck in it. Unless he's delivering his resignation spare us please!
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:21 PM
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20. The same way the Host says: "Libby was convicted on MOST but not all"
:wtf: That makes it sound like just a couple of counts!
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:18 PM
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16. Libby will have plenty of time to write a new sex book now!
SCOOTER’S SEX SHOCKER

Of all the scribbled sentences that have converged to create the Valerie Plame affair, the most remarkable, in literary terms, may belong to Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s recently deposed chief of staff. “Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work—and life,” he wrote in a jailhouse note to Judith Miller. Meant as a waiver of confidentiality, the letter touched off the sort of fevered exegesis more often associated with readings of “The Waste Land” than of legal correspondence. For even more difficult prose, however, one must revisit an earlier work. “The Apprentice”—Libby’s 1996 entry in the long and distinguished annals of the right-wing dirty novel—tells the tale of Setsuo, a courageous virgin innkeeper who finds himself on the brink of love and war.

Libby has a lot to live up to as a conservative author of erotic fiction. As an article in SPY magazine pointed out in 1988, from Safire (“ finally came to him in the bed and shouted ‘Arragghrrorwr!’ in his ear, bit his neck, plunged her head between his legs and devoured him”) to Buckley (“I’d rather do this with you than play cards”) to Liddy (“T’sa Li froze, her lips still enclosing Rand’s glans . . .”) to Ehrlichman (“ ‘It felt like a little tongue’ ”) to O’Reilly (“Okay, Shannon Michaels, off with those pants”), extracurricular creative writing has long been an outlet for ideas that might not fly at, say, the National Prayer Breakfast. In one of Lynne Cheney’s books, a Republican vice-president dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress.

It took Libby more than twenty years to write “The Apprentice,” which is set in a remote Japanese province in the winter of 1903. The book is brimming with quasi-political intrigue and antique locutions—“The girl who wore the cloak of yellow fur”; “one wore backward a European hat”—that make the phrase a “former Hill staffer,” by comparison, seem straightforward.

Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, “turds,” armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes, “At length he walked around to the deer’s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began to piss in the snow just in front of the deer’s nostrils.” MORE...

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051107ta_talk_collins

"Arragghrrorwr!"

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gasperc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:18 PM
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17. sad that his massive clusterfuck
led to Libby being the fall guy? well let's hope that the appeals can drag on until 2009 so that Libby doesn't have to spend any time rotting in jail before you, MR. Bush, pardon him for YOUR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. Or will you be so courageous to pardon Libby before the presidential election.

It'd be nice if one of the presidential candidates double dog dares you to pardon Libby before the election or announce that you absolutedly won't before 2009, I mean if that's what you truly believe, that Libby's innocent, pardon him now.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:19 PM
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18. * should have offered Harriet Myers for the defense, and then Libby
would certainly have been acquitted.
:sarcasm: :nopity:
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:19 PM
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19. Wait a minute!!! He WATCHED it???
There weren't any cameras allowed in the courtroom. How did he "WATCH" it?
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:24 PM
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22. Just like he watched the first plane crash into WTC. nt
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:22 PM
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21. A criminal was convicted by a jury of his peers
That shouldn't "sadden" a law and order Republican.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:42 PM
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23. Bet he's sadder over Libby than any one of the 3,185 soldiers he's gotten killed.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:49 PM
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24. Boo-hoo hoo. Boo-hoo. Woe! Boo-fucking-hoo.
"Sob. Choke. Booo-hoo! Boo-hoo-hoo. Sniff. Sob. Woe! Boo-fucking-hoo. Bwaa. Bwaaaaa! Boo-hoo! Sniff. Are the cameras still rolling?"

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/01/12/bushtears__2__wideweb__470x350,0.jpg
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 03:01 PM
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27. did he just cut an onion
* is sad that is to fucking bad.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:51 PM
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25. Pardon, he, he, where is my pardon form?
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:59 PM
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26. * was saddened what a laugh
Scooter took the fall for you thugs.
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politicasista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 03:05 PM
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28. Did he eat pretzels while watching? n/t
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