(2007-03-06) — Former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, convicted today of four counts of lying to federal investigators about a law that he didn’t break, said he feels “very badly” that Vice President Dick Cheney now faces up to 30 years in federal prison, and President George Bush will be impeached.
“I know that this case wasn’t about me, or even about Valerie Plame,” said Mr. Libby, “so I don’t take it personally. But Dick Cheney and George Bush are fine men and I hate to see them suffer.”
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald celebrated the jury’s verdict as a “vindication of the American legal system.”
“It’s a good lesson to our children that we are a nation of laws,” said Mr. Fitzgerald, “and when serious charges are made about laws that haven’t been broken by high-ranking officials, justice demands that someone be convicted of something, and that someone goes to jail.”
Mr. Fitzgerald, asked what he would do now that the trial is over, said, “I’m going to Disney World to give Snow White an opportunity to perjure herself.”
89 responses so far ↓
1 upnorthlurkin // Mar 6, 2007 at 1:56 pm
God Bless America!
2 upnorthlurkin // Mar 6, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Anybody wanna tell me again it doesn’t matter who wins elections?! What a joke!! Sandy Burglar walking around a free man and Scooter is guilty of what? If there’s any justice, Scooter will get a strongly worded warning (since Burglar got community service for an actual crime!)
3 Just Ranting // Mar 6, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I lost my faith in the jury system after the OJ Simpson trial. This just reconfirms it. The system is broke. This should never have gone to trial. What unbelievable nonsense!
4 diamond jim // Mar 6, 2007 at 2:23 pm
This case is such a farce . It’s funny to hear news-readers during newsbreaks trying to describe it:
“Today in the name-leak case…” ….
Pathetic.
5 Zim // Mar 6, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I think his first mistake was leaking his nickname “Scooter” to the press…
6 Bill's Bites // Mar 6, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Libby Found Guilty…
I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby [Found] Guilty on Four of Five Counts in CIA Leak Trial WASHINGTON — Former White House aide I. Lewis Scooter Libby was found guilty Tuesday of four of five counts of perjury, lying to the FBI…
7 Shelly // Mar 6, 2007 at 2:34 pm
I’m disappointed, but not surprised. We’re all aware of what BDS does to people. Look at boberin’s complete refusal to accept any provable fact that doesn’t fit what he wants to feel. This jury was disappointed that this was all they could do.
8 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 2:43 pm
So the defense is able to get the journalists involved to admit in court they also didn’t know who said what when and a jury clearly tainted by years of incessant media narrative finds Libby guilty of a process “crime” of lying to a grand jury and FBI agents.
And one of the jury members, who is a journalist btw (how did he get on the jury!?), has already gone to the liberal media and admitted he and others were already predisposed to the notion Libby was some kind of fall guy and they were wondering why Cheney and Rove weren’t being tried when it was Dick Armitage who outted the liar Joe Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame. Un-freakin’-believable!
I agree, what a farce. There is no way a conservative can get a fair trial in a country so tainted by the pervasive lies of a left-wing media. Tom DeLay is toast if left-wing jurists have their way. This judgment should be annulled for the travesty this jury just committed. If nothing else President Bush needs to pardon Libby before he leaves office in 2008.
If this keeps up, in the coming years I can feel a nasty backlash coming against this kind of judicial insanity. I’m absolutely outraged by the left-wing politics of personal destruction so amply displayed in this case. Why hasn’t Sandy Burglar been tried and convicted for stealing classified documents … SOMETHING HE ADMITTED, TO. This is ten times worst than a he-said-she-said process case.
9 conserve-a-tips // Mar 6, 2007 at 2:56 pm
The jury had to ask what Libby was actually being tried for, just three hours before the verdict. I think that just about says it all.
10 mig // Mar 6, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Unbelievable. Dolts. If I were on the jury I would have to ask too! I suppose the journalist on the jury ’splainned everything. Unbelieveable!
11 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Absolutely no reasonable doubt? Buwahahahahaha. What a sham. From the transcripts I saw, Tim Russert perjured himself.
Mr. Fitzgerald, asked what he would do now that the trial is over, said, “I’m going to Disney World to give Snow White an opportunity to perjure herself.â€
One of Scott’s finest! Hope Fitzgerald doesn’t forget to document the conflicting testimony of the Seven Dwarves while he’s at Disney World … okay, vertically challenged people.
12 mig // Mar 6, 2007 at 3:38 pm
How covert was Valerie Plame at the CIA? Her top-secret code name was “Valerie Plame.”
Get out the umbrella and sloggers, we’re in for another national drenching.
13 Shelly // Mar 6, 2007 at 4:08 pm
mig, didn’t you get the memo? Conservatives are all abandoning Ann Coulter.
14 LVTim // Mar 6, 2007 at 4:37 pm
They thought the Bush administration was secretive before . . . now nobody is going to talk about anything to anyone for fear of persecution.
My local DA could make a living reviewing statements of car crashes. When you have five witnesses, there will be five different versions of what happened. You could therefore convict four, or all five, of lying to the police.
Maybe Libby should have tried to get immunity by testifying against a border patrol agent.
This whold justice system is jacked.
15 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 6, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I wanna “out” somebody! Can I? Huh? Can I!?! Huh? Huh? Please? Okay, here goes:
Bill Maher is a moron.
16 da Bunny // Mar 6, 2007 at 4:58 pm
JL3…sorry, we already know that Maher is a moron. Your revelation is not enough to convict you, I’m afraid.
17 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 7:10 pm
AP - Washington
“There was no smoking gun,” Comer said.
Instead, jurors relied on the testimony of several government officials and journalists who claimed they discussed Plame with Libby…
“There was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury. It was said a number of times, ‘What are we doing with this guy here? Where’s Rove? Where are these other guys?’” Collins said. “I’m not saying we didn’t think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of. It seemed like he was, as Mr. Wells put it, he was the fall guy.”
What did I tell ya. This is simply pathetic. On the one hand they considered occasions and allegations not germane to the case and then on the other hand later claimed that those allegations regarding the White House didn’t influence them! This trial was a complete farce. Bunch of media-tools.
18 Harry Daschle // Mar 6, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald also said, “With the liberal jury pool we had in D.C., this case was so easy that a caveman could have procecuted it!”
John Edwards, when asked what he thought about Libby’s conviction said, “Jesus would be VERY DISAPPOINTED in Mr. Libby!”
Hillary said, “I’ma no ways tire-red—-blah blah blah!”
and Obama said, “Enough of Libby and that dead white chick, I’m ready for my close up!”
19 conserve-a-tips // Mar 6, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Darthmeister: It seemed like he was guilty????? I’ve sat on jurys before and I can tell you “he seemed like he was guilty” would not a verdict make. Sheesh.
20 conserve-a-tips // Mar 6, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Yeah. He had that look in his eye, so we thought that he seemed to be guilty.
Yeah. He kept cracking his knuckles and seemed like he was guilty.
Yeah. He runs with Republicans, which would make him seem like he is guilty.
Yeah. He coughed during testimony and seemed to be guilty.
Facts? We don’ need no stinkin’ facts.
21 Harry Daschle // Mar 6, 2007 at 7:30 pm
By the way, didn’t Jesus say something about John Edwards chosen profession?
Seems these libs are all getting religion now. Maybe they know their time is short?
Not a chance. Just part of the act.
Funny though, one of the best Presidents ever, Reagan, was an actor who became a politician. With the acting of most libs, they will NEVER be able to become actors.
Hillary doesn’t seem the “Southern Belle” type, (even if she is shaped like one).
I bet if a white Republican had said those same words, they would have been accused of being a racist mocking a slave’s words.
22 conserve-a-tips // Mar 6, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Giggle - Harry Daschle - not a southern belle but shapeed like one - giggle - hillarious.
“Ah don’ know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ no babies, but as God is mah witness, I will nevah go hungry agin! Ah ain’t nevah been hungry, but ah’ll nevah go hungry again!”
23 RedPepper // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I stumbled across this story a couple of hours before the Libby verdict came down, but I didn’t have time to post it at the time.
The mainstream media didn’t cover the story in any detail … (b)ut the fact remains that Judith Miller was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison based exclusively upon written evidence from witnesses whose identities and testimony were kept secret from her and her lawyers. They were given no opportunity to question, rebut, defend her against the secret evidence the courts relied upon exclusively in convicting her. Indeed, a full eight pages of the D.C. Court of Appeals decision discussing and analyzing this secret evidence was redacted from the published opinion. Judith Miller is unique, the first American ever to be sent to jail based on facts she never saw and a federal appellate opinion she was not permitted to read. That’s not troubling?
The Madness of Patrick Fitzgerald .
Are any of the folks who rave about the Patriot Act, or “eavesdropping” on foreign phone calls, bothered at all by this? Heard even a peep from the usual suspects?
Me neither …
24 mig // Mar 6, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I love Ann. I am a big fan of hers. I don’t care who doesn’t like her, I would love to have half her brains (and her dress size!) She is the whole package. Smart, funny and quick.
Free the Fitzgerald One! -Ann Coulter
25 everthink // Mar 6, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Well, it may not have been about sex, but I know how you all feel about perjury.
Let’s just do the whole lying bunch!
Can I get an amen here?
ET
26 conserve-a-tips // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Does anybody hear something? Listen. Can you hear it? It’s kinda squeaky. Oh? I didn’t think so.
27 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:30 pm
I hereby predict the Libby verdict will be overturned on appeal.
28 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:30 pm
29 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Bingo, c.a.t. What a complete travesty of justice. “He seemed guilty.” Why even Chris Matthews said Libby was guilty … and RoveHimmler … and Cheneyburton … yada, yada, yada. (moonbat mode/off)
Just got back from an Antonio Vivaldi “Four Seasons” concert featuring the Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra directed by world-renowned Seiji Ozawa (doesn’t appear to be Asian at all) and violin soloist Joan Kwon who is Asian American and his wife! One of the best performances I’ve ever seen from Vivaldi’s massive library of violin concerti - live performance or a recording. Simply magnifico’!
Vilvaldi was an ordained priest in the Catholic Church who was eventually defined by his more sacred works. The sacred music of the likes of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Vivaldi will continue to outlive most of the irreverent claptrap which passes for music today.
30 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Notice how neverthink has moved the goalposts. First it was Rove will be indicted for supposedly outting Valerie Plame. Then it was Cheney would be indicted for orchestrating a conspiracy to shut Joe Wilson up (never mind Joe Wilson is a liar even according to the liberally biased Washington Post.)
And now all the slavering moonbats on the left have left is a process perjury charge against a very minor player like Libby which itself seems to be in doubt given the jurors own public admissions as to their “findings”! And Democrat Sandy Burglar walks even though he admitted to breaking the law by stealing national security documents from the archives! Absolutely incredible!
Keep living in your topsy-turvy bizarro world of kangaroo court justice, neverthink. This miscarriage of justice will do more to galvanize independents and conservatives in 2008, excepting sHrillary getting nominated. She’s never had a popularity rating over 46%.
31 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 7, 2007 at 12:28 am
Ah. Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” is #4 on my hit parade after (1) Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, (2) Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony and (3) Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemp”. Rounding out the top five is Pink Floyd’s “Animals”.
32 bahabuddha // Mar 7, 2007 at 2:28 am
Yup, yup. The trial thing was a farce and Libby better get a full pardon if his appeal doesn’t pan out. But the proof is in the pudding… if there were really anything to this propped up scandal it would be getting 24/7 media coverage.
This Wilson/Plame dungheap is so toxic, I wouldn’t touch it with a 10′ Maury Povich..
And greetings to any Scrapple-oldtimers.. I once was lost yada-yada… great to see Mr. Ott is still sharp as ever.
33 MargeinMI // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:40 am
boberin, I don’t usually respond to your absolute inananities, but I take offense to your remark that saying ‘God Bless America’ is lame. I, personally, think it’s a good thing that instead of claiming ‘first’ (dumb), whoever happens on that spot can start the thread with a prayer for our country. I’m sorry you can’t appreciate that.
Speaking of prayers, mine are going up for Ms. RW and possumtrot. Any news?
Welcome back, bahabuddha!
Good morning all!
34 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 7:02 am
No news, Marge. Let’s hope no news is good news.
Neverthink, in light of your insufferable gloating concerning Libby’s conviction, keep in mind what goes around often comes around. Given your own propensity to lie and twist the truth, may you one day be sent to 25 years in prison because you seemed guilty of perjury.
35 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 7:05 am
bahabuddha, you’re always welcomed here. Long time, no post.
10′ Maury Povich? Yikes! Just don’t bring Jerry Springer into this. Scrappleface is family fare.
36 RedPepper // Mar 7, 2007 at 7:16 am
Nice to see you again, bahabuddha. Long time …
37 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 7:41 am
Over at OpinionJournal:
THE LIBBY TRAVESTY
The word “guilty” had barely crossed the airwaves yesterday in the perjury case of Scooter Libby before critics were calling it proof that President Bush “lied us into war” and demanding that Dick Cheney be strung up next. Maybe now Mr. Bush will realize that this case was always a political fight over Iraq and do the right thing by pardoning Mr. Libby.
The conviction is certainly a travesty of justice, though that is not the jury’s fault. The 11 men and women were faced with confusing evidence of conflicting memories in a case that never should have been brought. In the end, they were persuaded more by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s story line that Mr. Libby, a former aide to Mr. Cheney, had lied to a grand jury about what he knew when about the status of CIA official Valerie Plame, the wife of Bush critic Joseph Wilson.
In hindsight, the defense seems to have blundered by portraying Mr. Libby as the “fall guy” for others in the White House. That didn’t do enough to rebut Mr. Fitzgerald’s theory of the case, and so the jury seems to have decided that Mr. Libby must have been lying to protect something. The defense might have been better off taking on Mr. Fitzgerald for criminalizing political differences.
I thought that was a pretty big blunder myself. The defense took a chance that they could spin this as a fall guy scenario, exact sympathy from the jury, be found innocent and still not endanger anyone in the White House since there was a good chance (which has now proven true) that Fitzgerald will shut down all investigations since there were no crimes committed, particularly with respect to the bogus charge that Valerie Plame was illegally “outted”, and no other charges would be brought.
If the defense had actively pursued this as a conspiracy of liberal, politically motivated journalists who did indeed get together at various times before testifying in court (this fact could have been brought up in court) to get their story straight and thus hang Libby and create a wider scandal, Libby may have been found innocent. Given how Russert was confronted with his own changing testimony as well as other journalists who admitted to their own “fuzziness” about what was said when, I think this would have created even greater doubt in the mind of the jury. After all, Journalist Andrea Mitchell is on record as having said Plame’s identity as someone working at the CIA was already known among journalists working the intelligence beat, and then she changes her story before the Libby trial!
But this tactic may not have worked since there are people, some of whom were undoubtedly sitting on the jury, who refuse to believe the liberal media is capable of such a conspiracy even given the Dan Blather Memogate scandal. But it would have only taken one to hang the jury. A big mistake by the defense was allowing a journalist to be seated on the jury, a journalist who probably was instrumental in “leading” the jury through the already established media narrative that there was a conspiracy between Cheney and Rove to do damage to Joe Wilson other than calling him a liar … which he was.
And the liberal news media knew no crimes had been committed yet they continued beating the drum of Karl Rove being “frogmarched” out of the White House thus continuing the media myth that the Libby jurors had swallowed hook-line-and-sinker and prejudiced them to the point of viewing Libby is a seemingly guilty “fall guy”.
38 RedPepper // Mar 7, 2007 at 7:42 am
From today’s New York Post :
FREE SCOOTER LIBBY .
39 R.A.M. // Mar 7, 2007 at 8:11 am
Happy birthday to Colorado Kitty Cat!!!
and—-for the troll, I don’t recall Bill Clinton doing any jail time for his lies.
Well—-YET, anyway!
When, oh when, will Sandy Burgler obey his COURT ORDER, and take his lie detector test?
for Hairy Reid, If only we had thought ahead of time and DEMANDED Clinton not pardon Marc Rich!
Which will come first, Rep William Jefferson’s indictment, or his appoinment to another leadership position?
Same question as above, but insert these names—-John Conyers, John Murtha, Hillary Clinton, Hairy Reid, etc. Let’s call them the culture of corrosion.
Scott: How about a story on Mayor Ray Nagin and his suing the Army Corps of Engineers for the levee breach because of their design for 77 billion dollars.
Nevermind,———the actual story reads like satire already! http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703040434
40 RedPepper // Mar 7, 2007 at 8:18 am
And while we are on the topic of justice :
A 19-year-old Saudi woman who was kidnapped, beaten and gang raped by seven men who then took photos of their victim and threatened to kill her, was sentenced under the country’s Islamic-based law to 90 lashes for the “crime” of being alone with a man not related to her.
Saudi Kidnap, Rape Victim Faces Lashing …
41 conserve-a-tips // Mar 7, 2007 at 8:57 am
Redpepper - you don’t understand. According to Ahmadurnnutjob, Islam IS justice. If you read all of his letters and speeches to the US of A, he cajoles us to embrace Justice aka Islam.
Darthmeister, it just goes to show on what a thread the liberals are walking as they seek to destroy GWB. I was listening to one prognosticator last night and he made the point that Libby did appear to have made up this tale that he told the grand jury when the truth would have been easier and this whole trial would never have been. Fitzgerald had nothing. Absolutely nothing. And it would have been all over if Libby had just laid it out straight. I think that is the foolishness of the left today. They have jumped on this verdict as “Ah Ha!” when all it says is that there was no case except that one person told a little white lie (and it’s not nice to fool the Grand Jury). Wow, sounds like a culture of corruption to me.
42 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:13 am
From John Tabin at the AmericanSpectator:
Based on jurors’ accounts, their conviction turned on their trusting Tim Russert, and the judge prevented the defense from making a potentially crucial attack on Russert’s credibility. Russert testified that he didn’t know a witness before a grand jury couldn’t be accompanied by a lawyer; the defense produced three clips of Russert saying exactly that — a grand jury witness can’t have a lawyer with him — on television before his testimony. They weren’t allowed to show the jury that evidence. What if they had been? If Russert could be confused about that, the jurors might have thought, maybe he’s confused about other things — and maybe Libby is innocent.
Maybe. But it is still true Russert was also caught in another lie about when he told other people (in this case the FBI itself) about his conversation with Libby. And Russert is still considered a credible witness? Buwahahahahaha! What insanity and a gross miscarriage of justice.
43 upnorthlurkin // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:18 am
I borrowed this from an IMAO article this morning. It’s well worth the read and describes the trolls (and troll wannabes) to a T!! (How’m I doin’ with the links, Red? CAT? Mig?)
44 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:28 am
Here’s the difference between Clinton and Scooter - Bill Clinton admitted he lied to Federal Judge Wright (and a grand jury) by paying a $90,000 fine … and he gets no jail time. Sandy Burglar is merely fined $50,000 for absconding with classified intelligence documents and destroying some of them!
By contrast Scooter continues to maintain his innocence, is found guilty because he seemed guilty and he runs the risk of being sent up the river for 25 years. Both Clinton and Burglar are Democrats, Scooter Libby is a Republican. Any questions?
45 conserve-a-tips // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:29 am
BTW, Darthmeister and James, y’all are scaring me - orchestral delights?? It almost sounds like “nose in the air elitist piffle”.
Just kidding. The son was in the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra for three years. But I must say that I am not much of a Vivaldi fan. Motzart and Bach and Tcare more my style. Give me Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto any day.
46 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 7, 2007 at 10:11 am
RE: #43~~
upnorthlurkin~~
Thank you for that link, you made my day.
RE: #45~~
c-a-t~~
I was going to say: Please note the Pink Floyd reference (to counteract the “elitist snob” jibe) but, then, I realized us Pink Floyd fans really are among the elite.
47 conserve-a-tips // Mar 7, 2007 at 10:40 am
UpNorth - all I could say was, “Wow.” What an article. I am keeping that one. Do I dare send it to my liberal family????? And kudos on the link expertise!
48 RedPepper // Mar 7, 2007 at 11:51 am
upnorth #43: Your links work just fine! And, more important, the article itself is also apropos. Rock on!
49 everthink // Mar 7, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Dear Scrapplefaces, and Addlebrains:
I see where Bush’s overall approval rating has fallen to just 28 percent, a new low, while more than twice as many (64 percent) disapprove of the way he’s handling his job.
Not to worry though, he is still has a 98% approval rating among those who are twisted so far to the right, they can’t see what’s in front of them; and 100% among “Bush’s Brain Dead†here.
America can see clearly now the Repugnant Party’s notion of “Supporting the Troopsâ€. Maybe, Bush can make his next brave speech in front of the troops at Building 18.
Oh yeah, about “The Scooter”: You must think he has to confess, before he can be convicted.
Just hold tight Henry, let the little fella do a some time, then maybe he’ll tell on everybody, including “Evil, but Dumb†himself.
As always,
ET
Your President’s place in history is secure. Let it be a monument to you all!
50 upnorthlurkin // Mar 7, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Thanks! I had a great teacher!!
I’ve tried a couple of times to reach Ms. RightWing this morning with no success. I am directed right to voice mail. Will let y’all know if I get a call back!
51 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 1:05 pm
NEWS UPDATE
It has now been discovered that the juror Collins in the Libby trial is not only a journalist who has written for the Washington Post and collaborated with Bob Woodward on parts of the story surrounding the “outting” of Valerie Plame, BUT HE’S ONE OF TIM RUSSERT’S NEIGHBORS!
Journalist Collins admitted on Larry King (Still) Alive that he will write a book about his experience on the Libby jury (bet that’s why he really wanted on the jury and didn’t recuse himself) and already has a piece running at the radical left-wing website HuffingtonPost.
If this isn’t enough reason to annul the jury verdict, then there is simply no justice left in this country when two journalist neighbors who have already prejudiced themselves with a media narrative end up with one sitting on the jury while the other is the prosecution’s star witness. And then the jurors admit their conviction of Libby was based mostly on the credibility of Tim Russert despite the fact that credibility was being bolstered by Russert’s journalist buddy on the jury! What insanity!
But of course this is what passes for justice in neverthink’s world.
Hey, neverthink, still crowing about American deaths to advance your political agenda, eh? Jerk. You can have the popularity results, they are meaningless. Bush isn’t running again in case you still haven’t figured it out. What’s more important are the polls that show 56% of Americans believe we CAN NOT leave Iraq until we stabilize it and the new Iraqi government … which means stay until victory. You lose. Pretty pathetic when it turns out you’ve been rooting for our defeat in Iraq camouflaged as some “patriotic” concern for the welfare of American men and women who volunteered to serve in the American Armed ForceW at the will of the Congress and its Joint Congressional Resolution for use of American force in Iraq and that of their Commander-in-Chief during these perilous times.
And if your precious but gutless Dhimmiecrats in Congress do succeed in imposing their lose-at-any-cost gambit over whatever war fronts America is presently engaged in against Islamofascist lunatics the next couple of years, THEN WE ALL LOSE and so do the Iraqis!
Only then will it be just like Vietnam and Cambodia. Your side of the aisle should appreciate this point since you all have been so fixated on the Vietnam metaphor the last three years.
52 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 7, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I almost wish I could feel pity for those traitorous haters who come on here to mock and ridicule without any factual basis whatsoever and make such utter fools of themselves but I can’t bring myself to feel any sympathy for the enemies of the United States of America.
53 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 1:47 pm
KABUL, March 7 (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers have captured a Taliban leader who tried to flee a security operation in the south dressed in a burqa, NATO said on Wednesday.
Tuesday’s capture in Kandahar province came as NATO launched a major offensive in neighbouring Helmand to secure a key hydroelectric dam and combat the opium trade.
The man was named as Mullah Mahmood and described as an expert bomb-maker. U.S.-led coalition forces also detained five more suspected militants in eastern Khost this week.
Another fine example of a brave Muslim freedom fighter. Sounds like something some of our gutless Dhimmiecrats would do … dress in a burqa to save their worthless lives. Imagine Ted Kennedy in a burqa … nayaaaaaaah!!!
But the bigger story is, America is still losing troops in Afghanistan. We must surrender because Dhimmiecrats claim all war is ignoble and immoral, particularly when you take casualties. With the deaths of 472,000 American soldiers, maybe we really lost World War II but are too stupid to know it. And Germany didn’t even attack us first! And here we are still occupying Germany and Japan with our stormtroopers … and raping their women from time to time. And worst yet, we give chocolate to their children to rot out their teeth! Bunch of militaristic fascists!
54 The Great Santini // Mar 7, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Was that a bahabuddha (Young Jedi Dead-Eye) sighting up yonder in the Scrapplefaceâ„¢ galaxy? As Darth Vader said of Patrick Fitzgerald: “The Farce is strong in this one!”
-Obi-Wan (”May the Farce be with you”)-
55 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 7, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I’m back again. sigh. If I could just get this old body in gear this would never happen.
I’m weaker than a run down chunk of road kill but look forward to messin’ up the world wide netas soon as possible
56 everthink // Mar 7, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Well Henry, you half-wit,
I’m going to turn on the TV right now to await news of Libby’s mistrial.
“Hey, neverthink, still crowing about American deaths to advance your political agenda, eh? Jerk.”
I didn’t do that! Shame on you,liar!
No, Bush isn’t running again. But, soon he will be trying to avoid impeachment - his low approval rating may may prove a detriment to him then.
Bush - Like a Rock. Only Dumber!
ET
57 Waldo Lydecker // Mar 7, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Libby is innocent, it says here, because other scoundrels have been guilty (Clinton, Burger, et al), an argument of hurt-feelings that proves yet again that the right wing is logically absurd.
That perversity would explain, too, the ardor for such unashamed ‘troop-supporting’ draft-dodgers like Bush and Cheney and the Red State loyalties toward barn-burners like Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage.
What an odious combo, a lying, cheating administration and its blind, robotic counsel.
History knows of no other group quite like it and is not about to forgive this one.
58 everthink // Mar 7, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Hey Waldo,
I have to tell you how I admire, and agree with you comments in 57.
I must warn you that your comments will cause Henry (Darthmeister) to exhibit a one of his “Drooling Fits”, by posting a thousand words of contempt for your views, you personally, and anyone you’ve ever met who didn’t hate you.
Try not to let this bother you too much, it’s kinda like Tourette’s syndrome, you know.
Your new friend,
ET
59 Fred Sinclair // Mar 7, 2007 at 3:09 pm
SOME THINGS JUST NEVER SEEM TO CHANGE - [FROM TODAY'S PATRIOT POST]
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too manyparasites living on the labor of the industrious.” —Thomas Jefferson
Heirborn Ranger
60 Fred Sinclair // Mar 7, 2007 at 3:13 pm
ET - CALL HOME; ET - CALL HOME; ET - CALLHOME; NOW!!!
Heirborn Ranger
61 Deerslayer // Mar 7, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Re# 57
Where’s Waldo…I’ve looked all over planet earth and he’s no where to be found!
62 Deerslayer // Mar 7, 2007 at 3:38 pm
And just what is Scotter guilty of doing? Oh yes, by not answering Grand Jury questions with “I sorry, I don’t recall” or “I don’t remember” like your Thighness did about 250 times during her Grand Jury testimony. Smartest woman in the worl my donkey.
63 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Libby is innocent, it says here, because other scoundrels have been guilty (Clinton, Burger, et al), an argument of hurt-feelings that proves yet again that the right wing is logically absurd.
Nope, it demonstrates your unwillingness to understand what we are saying despite how you lie to yourself about your willingness to engage in an honest debate. What we are saying is that on the face of the recemt decision and given who sat on the jury and what the arguments the jury has thus put forth to justify their decision (”he (Libby) seemed guilty … now c’mon!), this verdict makes a mockery of our system of justice.
Also, what we’re also positing is given the slaps on the hand both Sandy Burglar and Clinton have received for their own felonious behavior as compared to what just happened to Libby, there appear to be two kinds of “justice” in America, particularly those in the political arena, one for Democrats/liberals and one for Republicans/conservatives.
Can you also tell me why, after accepting a $100,000 bribe and being caught red-handed with $90,000 of that bribe, William Jefferson (D-Moon) is not only a representative in the U.S. Congress but has now gotten a Homeland Security Seat? Demented Democrats voting you back in may answer part of that question.
But to anticipate your defense of Jefferson on the basis he hasn’t been indicted yet, how is it any number of Republicans who have broken no laws and didn’t come even close to being indicted (think Trent Lott, Newt Gingrich) have been stripped of their right to sit on a Congressional committee or forced to resign by nattering Democrats and the liberal media while the likes of Harry Reid and his crooked real estate deals, Gerry Studds and Mel Reynolds scandals in years past always get a pass while “investigations” mysteriously drag out until the next election cycle?
Yes, there is evolving two kinds of justice in America and you people gleefully embrace it because you think it’s so funny and to your political advantage.
64 mig // Mar 7, 2007 at 3:53 pm
#53- Didn’t Himmler do something similiar?
65 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Bush - Like a Rock. Only Dumber!
ET - As mentally sharp as a bamboo stick!
Maybe you didn’t catch this before neverthink, but your the kind of guy that would read the ingredients off the back of a bubblegum wrapper and start believing you’ve found the secrets of the universe.
66 mig // Mar 7, 2007 at 4:06 pm
From Letty: scandals involving leaders from the Democrate Leadership
67 Pros and Cons » A chance to meet Czech President Vaclav Klaus … and ME. + “Scooter” Libby, UPDATED Continually // Mar 7, 2007 at 4:17 pm
[...] See you all there. Aso, I just heard on NPR that the Libby jury has reached a verdict. I expect Mr. Libby will not like it, but that it could have been worse. UPDATED 11:30, unfortunately, I was correct about the guilty part. 3:23 The follow-up reporting on the jury makes it seem clear to me that his goose was as cooked as Hillary’s would be before a Shelby County, Alabama jury from the get go. 5:18 Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald says he will not charge anyone else in yet another elliptical admission that there was no underlying crime but clearly expressed his irritation (righteous wrath?) that Libby obstructed justice. Ambassador Wilson is presently dancing around that question adroitly, and is pursuing his civil suit. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, in continuing his tenuous relationship with the truth (when not under oath - unlike, according to the jurors, Libby) asserts that Libby works for President Bush, which I don’t think he ever did in this report, followed by Matt Cooper. Reportarial privilege is clearly shot full of holes, which is fine with me. Wednesday 10:50 am, obviously James Taranto and the rest of the Wall Street Journalists are not pleased by the result of this case, though they do not seem surprised. From Taranto’s piece, there’s this. 3:21 Scott Ott has more. [...]
68 conserve-a-tips // Mar 7, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Gosh, I think that the crickets multiplied to two!! I could swear that I heard chirping from two different directions. Hear that? You don’t? Oh - ok, they don’t exist, so I won’t answer them.
69 everthink // Mar 7, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Well Henry, you half-wit,
I’m going to turn on the TV right now to await news of Libby’s mistrial.
“The Republican Party: Our Bridge to the 11th Century.”
ET
70 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 4:59 pm
BTW, Lydecker, did you cook last night with Old Spiceâ„¢? That would explain a lot of things.
And when did KOS let you have the week off?
71 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:00 pm
neverthink, do you find it difficult to get away from your sandbox and all those Tonkaâ„¢ toys? I think I hear your mommy calling.
72 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:02 pm
… oh good, you’re going to watch Sesame Street. Don’t forget, it’s school night.
73 DigiMan // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I have posted your article on my webblog.
I hope you dont mind that I did it?
74 everthink // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Well Henry, you half-wit,
“We Need a President Who’s Fluent In At Least One Language.”
ET
75 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:22 pm
upnorth
my cell phone batteries died in the hospital but I just recharged from the bunker, so I got your message.
76 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Welcome back Ms RightWing, sorry about the troll droppings.
Well, Henry you half-wit
And so what’s your excuse o’ witless one? If brains were taxed you’d get a rebate, neverthink.
77 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:52 pm
As funny as life is, I find out one thing when I return from a bad physical wreck and that is arguing with the wind gets one nowhere.
All I had for national news for 8 days was CNN and what I figured out by suffering physically, and mentally, by watching them is liberals are digging deep for righteous indignation. Friends, the volume of childlike criticism is only going to get louder.
You’ve seen the news and it is all about ruining Bush and nothing more. Turn them off and listen to some soothing music, call a long lost friend or go out and get a juicy hamburger. Trolls are just bad wind who haven’t seen or understood God’s goodness
Celebrate life, not knuckleheads
78 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Ms RightWing, Ink~~
Amen.
God Bless You.
79 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 6:02 pm
CNN for 8 days? It’s a miracle you survived without brain damage, Ms RightWing!
80 everthink // Mar 7, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Well, Henry you half-wit,
Bush: End of an Error!
ET
81 Waldo Lydecker // Mar 7, 2007 at 6:16 pm
It’s bad enough that Libby-pardon advocates around here insult sophistication, but why should they go on for so long with their only argument a midcult desperation—and in the homespun language and immature gravity you’d expect to find at an amateur wine tasting, a teenage class in movie criticism or at the 4-H finals for the county’s best hog-callers?
In imitating Bush, a Know-Nothing redux if ever there was one, they confirm most of all that they deserve him.
82 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Well Henry, you half-wit
neverthink, I’ll try being nicer if you try being smarter. With your last comment about President Bush you certainly put the “pithy” in Australopithycus*.
I’m still trying to imagine both you and Lydecker with a personality … I swear I’m trying!
*an alleged distant human ancestor with an extremely small braincase.
83 Hawkeye // Mar 7, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Hey Ms RightWing!
Good to hear from ya! Weez wuz tinkin’ ’boutcha and aprayin’ fer ya. God Bless dear lady.
(:D) Best regards…
84 Hawkeye // Mar 7, 2007 at 6:39 pm
By the way ScrappleFriends…
I got an e-mail from Possumtrot. His surgery was only minor and went well.
(:D) God is Good…
85 Beerme // Mar 7, 2007 at 6:50 pm
ET,
Brave men don’t lie, cowards do that.
86 everthink // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Well Henry, you half-wit,
The word pithy may be found in Australopithycus;
but, Australopithycus is not a word.
The word you are struggling to use is Australopithecus; or as Dumbyah would say Australianpisycus.
ET
How would you know Beerme?
87 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:45 pm
neverthink, you’re so dense light bends around you.
Of course I know how to spell “Australopithecus”. Obviously I creatively altered it to make it work with “pithy”. Sheesh, if you can’t get a joke … But I forget, you’re a modest person who has much to be modest about. Forgive me.
88 mig // Mar 8, 2007 at 9:56 am
Did anyone see this on Novak and his response to Libbys ‘woes’?
89 Beerme // Mar 8, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Know Beerme? I know Beerme and you, sir, are no Beerme!
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