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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 06:58 PM
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Do you want to see Rumsfeld pardoned?
Neither do I.

Now it's time for all of us to start writing. On this Amnesty International page, you'll find your local paper, and some important things like-

---International law prohibits the issuing of pardons, amnesties and similar measures designed to prevent accountability for abuses such as torture, war crimes and enforced disappearance.



Everybody here should start writing this moment. Let's put pressure on this president before the other shoe drops.

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/site/c.jhKPIXPCIoE/b.4832229/k.9D79/LTE_Bush_Pardons/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=4832229&en=9sIHLUOzG8LQI4OCK7KMJ6OTLkIUIcMJJdIQJ8PULwF
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TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:00 PM
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1. Pardoned from what?
Has he been charged with something?
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:14 PM
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9. No. But the point is there may be blank pardons. I used him as an example.
I probably shouldn't have. And thanks for pointing that out. I was shortsighted.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:00 PM
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2. Well I hope he's not charged with anything until Bush is long out of power. n/t
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:01 PM
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3. No. I want to see him charged with something.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:01 PM
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4. Without bail.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:02 PM
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6. Thrown in a ditch covered in petrol...
Well, I can still dream...
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:05 PM
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7. Watch it, Taverner
You don't want to be reported.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:06 PM
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8. True that...
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:02 PM
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5. no way
none of them
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:21 PM
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10. Sure. if the pardon occurs while he is dangling from a noose.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:27 PM
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11. But why should he get a pardon? Dubya claims that the Bushistas did nothing wrong.
Dubya, just keep thinking that for the next forty-some days!

Better yet, when the new Congress meets on Jan. 5, it should immediately begin a rushed impeachment and trial of both Dubya and Darth Cheney.
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:28 PM
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12. Yes.
Because that'll mean that Bush is down to his last few days in office.

There's nothing we can do to stop Bush from pardoning his entire posse. However, that pardon will only be valid under US law - they can still be arrested under international law. But it won't happen inside of the US - the order would have to come from the top, and I can't fathom Obama going there.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 10:53 PM
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14. Stop making sense!
I was being so serious. Now I can't do that.

And I even wrote to my editor. Which was nice.
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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:30 PM
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13. I'd rather see him taken down by an NFL linebacker.
Or hit by a shoe.

Or in an orange jumpsuit.
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