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The neocon's blind crusade to land a pardon for Scooter Libby hit a new low last week when Fouad Ajami, the John Hopkins prof and post 9/11 media darling who turned out to be wrong every which way about war with Iraq, wrote a deeply offensive column in the Wall Street Journal beseeching President Bush to let Libby go free.

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earthlingerer
June 12, 2007, 6:30 a.m.
Clinton's lies never put so many people at risk. To help let such cats out of the bag in a time like this where the repeated mantra is "national security, homeland security", outing a CIA operative over disagreement with her husband is out right treasonous.
If it had kept going on, he would have probably given up -or sold, knowing the neoconvict- al the secrets he held, or could find.
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agentX
June 11, 2007, 10:16 p.m.
"Nonetheless, in the world of the delusional chickenhawks, the same misguided men who gave birth to a war that has taken the lives of more than 3,500 Americans, tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Iraqis now think that a white collar attorney like Libby who goes to work for the White House and then lies to federal prosecutors is akin to a soldier being shot in battle."
Yeah, the Neo-Cons must call it the "No Crony Left Behind" support plan.
Where is the strong law-and-order-and-justice moral fiber of Conservatives? Guess that's gone when its one of their own.