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If you have to do it, you might as well do it right.
[[category:events]][[George W. Bush]]'s presidential [[wikipedia:Commutation of sentence|commutation]] of [[Scooter Libby]]'s jail sentence was one of the more brazenly corrupt actions of an already brazenly [[corruption in the Bush administration|corrupt administration]], publicly revealing a glimpse of its deep [[hypocrisy]].
 
  
Bush's statement that he believes "the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive" flies directly in the face of the administration's repeated claims of punishing those who do wrong and upholding the principles of [[freedom]] and [[democracy]], as well as Bush's own sworn oath to defend the [[US Constitution]]; it is clear that such accountability only applies to those who are not under the [[Bush II administration|Bush administration]]'s protective wing, and "freedom" has an implicit "(for us)" attached.
 
 
When [[Bill Clinton]] [[Clinton's bad behavior|lied under oath]] about his personal life, the [[Republican (US)|Republican]] majority went to the ends of the earth trying to prosecute him for it (and failed, because he told the truth where it was relevant). When [[Lewis Libby|One of their own people]] lied under oath about the [[Plame affair|betrayal of a man's wife]] – a betrayal which caused her life to be endangered, revealed a classified secret (her identity as an undercover agent) to enemy states and possibly risked the revelation of other secrets (if she were captured as a result) – said betrayal made in sheer childish revenge (at best) for her husband's failure to stick to the party line – the [[neoconservative]]s calling themselves "Republicans" get in line to call for forgiveness and compassion.
 
 
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