was the night before Fitzmas and all through the White House;
Constitutional Criminals were stirring about.
Disappointed at the result, Bush told aides he was sorry for Libby and his family. Link. Bush then proceeded to crap in a paper bag, light it on fire, leave it on the front stoop at Walter Reed, and run away.
"I am very disappointed with the verdict. I am saddened for Scooter and his family. As I have said before, Scooter has served our nation tirelessly and with great distinction through many years of public service." Statement of Dick Cheney, who then proceeded to dine on microwaved infant kittens.
Stock footage was played by Keith O. with great care;
Sixty minutes devoted to bringing us there;
"Obstruction of justice, guilty. False statements to investigators, guilty. Perjury before the grand jury, two counts, guilty and guilty.Scooter Libby convicted on four of five charges against him in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. Patrick Fitzgerald bats .800. The Libby lies, were they to insulate the vice president only? And how long will that protection last?"
"Ultimately, whether Lewis Scooter Libby becomes the symbol for administration lies about Iraq or merely a footnote depends largely on what happens next. Whether he‘s pardoned, whether additional facts emerge from the White House in the future, whether anything else happens in the wake of the fact that the one man, who according to the prosecutor, threw sand in the face of the referee, has been, to continue the analogy, thrown out of the game."
Keith Olbermann – 2/6/07
War mongers and bigots spat hate at the feds;
While visions of pardons danced round in their heads;
"This [verdict] is the best news for Republicans and conservatives there could be. All conservatives will now circle the wagons, after going dormant last fall for whatever reason. The more the Democrats and liberals gloat, the better news it is for us. They are POKING THE BEAR! They'll be SORRY!!" Rush. Limbaugh then took a dump in his hand and called it a cupcake.
"The haters of Bush and Cheney will argue, as one of the leftists at the AOL blog does, that Libby's false statements have prevented Cheney's alleged misdeeds in "outing" Valerie Plame from seeing the light of day. But it's known that Richard Armitage "outed" her and he has not been prosecuted. The reason is that there's no crime there." – Paul at Powerline, mistaking what’s written in the Washington Post editorial section as news, even when the news department of the Washington Post doesn’t.
My boss with her trial, keeping work in my lap;
Motions and pleadings had me long for a nap;
When out of my inbox arose such a clatter;
I sprang from my toil to see what was the matter;
Away to the Gmail I flew like a flash;
Tore open my browser and clicked on my cache;
OH WHAT HAPPY DAY THIS IS
-- Email from my friend.
He's guilty, but good looking.
-- Email from another friend.
Life in prison can't be easy for a man named "Scooter."
-- Email from another friend.
The verdict floated on air, like a light winter snow,
Gave the luster of justice to Joe Wilson’s doe.
"I think she wept when she heard the news." Joe Wilson on his wife’s reaction to the guilty verdict."
"Well, Scooter Libby, convicted felon. That is really a sad statement for this country. But again, I look on the bright side. The Constitution, the Constitution was defended by this action, this jury of his peers. And we are most appreciative of the efforts of the judge, the prosecution, and the jury to deal with this matter."
Countdown with Keith Olbermann 3/6/07.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a badass Special Counsel, resigned and austere;
With a tall cup of joe held firm in his mits;
I knew in a moment it must be St. Fitz;
"[The jury] returned a verdict of guilty on four of the counts. The jury was obviously convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant had lied and obstructed justice in a serious matter."
"The results are actually sad," [St. Fitz] said, "It's sad that we had a situation where a high-level official, a person who worked in the office of the vice president, obstructed justice and lied under oath. We wish that it had not happened, but it did."
"Any lie under oath is serious. Having someone, a high-level official, do that under oath in a national security investigation is something that is -- can never be acceptable. And that just made it mandatory that we pursue it."
"What was said in court was a defense argument made that we put a cloud over the White House, as if, one, we were inventing something or, two, making something up, in order to convince the jury that they ought to convict...And so the fact that there was a cloud over anyone was not our doing. It was the facts of the case. It was the facts of the case. It was aggravated by Mr. Libby telling falsehoods."
"No one's above the law"
– via CNN
The jurors, bald eagles, called Libby by name;
They read his transgressions, and shackled the blame;
"Now Guilty! Now, Guilty! Now Guilty, like Nixon!
Now Guilty! On only one count we aquittzin!
To the Pen you will go! The cells are quite small!
Keep your soap on a rope and your back to the stall!"
"I think they're lying. Every one of them."
"Why are we trying Libby? Where are Rove and Armitage?"
Juror # 9 Denis Collins, via Huffpost
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly;
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So are the lies the Decider did spew;
To spend three thousand lives of our soldiers, snafu;
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
- George W. Bush, January, 2003.
Inseperate, indeed from the facts and the proof;
Is a tragedy untouched by this little spoof;
Innumerable dead in the Iraqi ground;
A nation, her honor and soul left stormbound;
Her high mighty treasure built hand and built foot;
In the pocket of war profiteers it was put;
3,188 American soldiers dead as of 1:20PM (eastern) 3/7/07.
23,417 wounded American soldiers as of 1:21PM (eastern) 3/7/07.
600,000 Iraqis dead (as estimated by damage to Iraqi infrastructure and war casualities).
Cost of the war in US Dollars: $406,229,526,840 as of 1:25PM (eastern) 3/7/07
$406,229,560,621 as of 1:26PM
$406,229,746,366 as of 1:26PM
$406,229,832,992 as of 1:26PM
$406,229,888,123 as of 1:27PM
Others have warred without reason to track;
Ask Poland, ask France, ask a Kuwaiti claque;
What punishment fits such an act, vile and scary;
What justice is due to a mother, son buried;
We look to our elders, with wisdom bestow;
The Great Generation will certainly know;
"WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom..." Preamble to the U.N. Charter, ratified by the United States July 28, 1945
Unwarranted war, a crime did bequeath;
International standards with punitive teeth;
"Crime against Peace" born from World War II’s belly;
And if Scooter’s in trouble, and the future foretell-ie;
If God is alive and justice not dead;
We will hold the account for the war you misled;
"Crimes against peace, as described by the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946, are "the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
Also known as the crime of aggression, crimes against peace formed
the first charge against the Nazis in the 1945 Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The charter defined them as "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy [to do so]."
"The American view prevailed—though the tribunal’s jurisdiction was limited to Axis aggression—leading to the conviction of leading Nazis for crimes against peace."
St. Fitz would want you to read the whole article.
Perhaps wishful thinking, but where did it work?
In trial of a liar to hide the lie of a jerk;
One thing is certain, for wives and widows;
Of soldiers abroad trolling Iraqi ghettos;
Three people here earned a hero’s acclaim;
Their names are Wilson, Fitzpatrick and Plame;
But I heard Fitz exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Fitzmas to all, and to all a good night!"