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7.5.07 @ 12:01AM

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Re: Ben Stein's Bush Amazes:

So Ben, if the current President was a Democrat, a Democrat occupied the position of Scooter Libby and all the other "facts" of this case remained as they are currently understood (especially the context of this case -- the war in Iraq and the origins of our entry into that war), would your position be the same?

Are there conservatives lawyers of prominence, like the well-known liberal lawyers in this drama, who would write on behalf of this person?

Why should the perjury in this case be less troublesome to anyone than the perjury uncovered during the Clinton administration? Are there different categories of lying under oath to a grand jury?

Have we learned anything about special prosecutors from Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Starr other than the fact that they can spend enormous amounts of taxpayer money in the service of partisan agendas? But, who had faith in Janet Reno and the Justice Department during the Clinton administration and who has faith in Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department today to investigate and administer justice impartially?
-- Mike Roush
North Carolina

THANK YOU, Sir, for your fine article regarding our President. He is a just and fine man and I'm proud that he is the leader of our great Nation.

The biased media is destroying our people and our country with their opinions and why any good person would want to be punished by running for public office is beyond me, but thankful that there are a few...

Mr. Libby did not deserve this treatment and all this was a waste of time and taxpayers money...finally our Leader steps forward once again to put things right.

Again, THANK YOU for your excellent article.

A Proud American,
-- Bob Knopsnyder
Markleton, Pennsylvania

Ben is correct about Fitzgerald. Why hasn't this shoe scrapping been disbarred like Nifong? The Illinois and D.C. Bars apparently don't have the guts or ethics to rid the legal profession of this embarrassment.

But Ben is wrong about Bush. If Bush is so all-fired wonderful, why did he put out the crock that he respected the jury's verdict and why did he let a quarter of a million dollar fine stay in place? Bush was doing nothing more than making a stingy and reluctant bow to his base who had trounced him in the preceding week by convincing the Senate to put the kibosh on his amnesty-granting elitist "immigration" bill.
-- John Gridley

It is simply appalling to see the White House Press Corps pummeling Tony Snow with hostile questions about the Libby commutation. Their outrage is curiously selective.

When Bill Clinton was cited for contempt of court in the Paula Jones civil case, after his lawyer Bob Bennett alerted the judge that he had unknowingly filed a false affidavit containing Clinton's brazen mis-statements, the liberal press whined that the false testimony was "immaterial" and that the case had been had been thrown out. "No harm, no foul," they complained. "Injustice," they bellowed.

But in the Libby case they have no problem with a public figure being criminally prosecuted, financially ruined, disgraced and sentenced to jail for perhaps mis-stating his recollection of a three-year-old phone conversation, one that in any event offered no evidence that Libby or anyone else had committed a crime -- ESPECIALLY not the crime Fitzgerald was fraudulently investigating.

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