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And by the way, Mr. Stein, Fred Thompson has been saying the same things you have for a long time. Are you going to support him for president? You should!

p>Thanks again... br> -- Janet Ney /p>

It might have been a fine hour if Bush had pardoned Libby. Commuting his sentence while saying that he agreed that Libby was guilty of something was simply typical Bush being the waffling useless tone deaf compromiser he has always been. What was he guilty of Bush? Other than working for an administration headed by a wuss like you. I know you can't piss off Ted Kennedy. You may need him for another run at turning America into a Spanish speaking nation.

p>I am getting sick of people on the right who try and claim Bush has guts and character. He has neither. And I have to work with these people to save our nation? Sheesh. br> -- Dean Stephens br> Colerain, North Carolina /p>

Fresh from the humbling celebrations of our nation's iconoclastic, truly revolutionary birth, Ben Stein found fitting to praise a president for commuting a prison sentence for a friend.

In his July 5 column "Another Perspective," Stein opines on the injustice to Scooter Libby whose wrongdoing has been interpreted as anything from innocent, faulty recollection to nefarious cover-up for his betters.

In his deeply patriotic gut, I had hoped that Stein would have had the truly American reaction to be pleased that people in service at the highest offices are subject to our laws. But sadly, Stein hangs tightly to the irrelevant myth that Plame was not covert, nor international. He must assume that prosecutor Fitzgerald's court filing in May was also perjurious. You see, his filings cited CIA employment documents that contradict this myth. The CIA seems to believe that Plame was covert and that she traveled internationally undercover.

Perhaps Stein's patriotism is best reflected in his skepticism to the motives of the prosecutor. Fair enough. But how then to explain Libby's multiple reports to the press that Plame and Wilson were in cahoots, only to be surprised to learn this fact weeks later in newspapers?

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