[Mb-civic] Bush, Cheney can’t let Libby go to trial

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Bush, Cheney can’t  let Libby go to trial

by Al Neuharth, USA TODAY

We’ll never know whether I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby is  guilty of lying to a 
grand jury as charged.

Despite Libby’s not guilty plea at Thursday’s preliminary  hearing, 
President Bush and Vice President Cheney can’t afford to let him go to  trial. So they’
ll offer him the moon to plea bargain for the best deal he can  cut.

Testimony in a trial likely  would show that Bush, Cheney and Secretary of 
Defense Donald Rumsfeld were hell  bent to invade Iraq, reasons be damned. When 
their phony cover that Saddam  Hussein had weapons of mass destruction was 
blown, they hunkered down against  anyone who told the truth about their 
trickery. 

Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador, did that.  So,  possibly coached by his 
boss Cheney, Libby told reporters that Wilson’s wife,  Valerie Plame, worked 
for the CIA. “Outing” a covert CIA operative is against  the law. She had once 
served in that role and was still a CIA  employee.

Those leaks and the  administration’s persistent deceptions put Bush and his 
crowd in company with  these other recent presidents:

-Republican President Richard Nixon.
-Democrat President Bill Clinton.

Nixon lost his job for trying to cover up a break-in at  Watergate by his 
cronies.  Clinton lost his reputation when he lied about  uncovering himself for 
Monica Lewinski.  But both were minor-league  Pinocchios whose lies hurt 
mostly themselves.

Bush, Cheney and company are major league make-believers  who have brought 
immeasurable and irreparable harm to innumerable others with  their Iraq 
misadventure. Cost: Tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of  billions of dollars.  
Every day they  continue their deceptive game, a la Libby, adds to their  
shame.

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