Dec 02 2008
Bush and the Presidential Pardon
According to the AP, more than 2,000 people have petitioned Bush to either give them a “get out of jail free” card or to commute their prison sentences before he steps down as our nation’s “leader” in January. This whole issue has made me think—I wonder if Bush would pardon himself, if he could, or does he not think that he did anything wrong? My bet is the latter. There is no person more dangerous, or one more unapologetic, than one who feels imbued with a righteous mission.
In Bush’s case, his biggest “crime” was the Iraqi War. Sure, Bush used the excuse of Saddam possessing “weapons of mass destruction” and his “terrorist threat” to convince Congress and the American people that Saddam must go. But, this was all a smokescreen. As most of us feel now, his attack on Saddam was a personal one—a point of competition and a point of pride. He not only wanted to overthrow Saddam to avenge that dictator’s former threat on his father’s life, but also to finish the job that his daddy couldn’t finish.
He succeeded. But, some five years, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and billions of dollars later, was it really worth it?
MR. Bush, you get no pardon from me.
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Pardoning everyone in his administration, including himself, would be an admission of wrongdoing or guilt. It’ll never happen, and I fear that everyone but the Senators from Vermont and Dennis Kucinich will refuse to try and prosecute him.