Bye-bye, war criminal fuck!!
Metaphorically, I'd give his shit ass a kick on the way out!
"Bush commutes sentences of ex-agents in border shooting; Case sparked debate on immigration" by Dan Eggen and Carrie Johnson, Washington Post | January 20, 2009
WASHINGTON - Reserving his last acts of clemency for his final full day in office, President Bush yesterday commuted the sentences of two former US Border Patrol agents whose convictions in 2006 for shooting a Mexican drug dealer sparked a passionate debate over the rights of illegal immigrants.
The prosecutions of Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos became a cause celebre for many conservatives, who argued that the pair were just doing their jobs in trying to apprehend a dangerous illegal immigrant. The victim, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot.
The Justice Department strongly defended the prosecution, noting that Davila was unarmed and shot in the buttocks while fleeing and that the two agents tried to cover up their actions with a false report of the incident. Their sentences were upheld last year by a federal appeals court.
Are there any honest cops left in AmeriKa?
Administration officials said Bush believed the verdicts in the case were just, but thought that the sentences were excessive.
Then WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG?
Compean had been sentenced to 12 years in prison, and Ramos, 11 years. The commutation means the pair will walk out of federal prison March 20 after serving 26 months each, officials said....
Bush will come back into the public eye this morning to welcome President-elect Barack Obama to the White House before his noon inauguration. After that, Bush will depart for a welcome-home rally in Midland, Texas, followed by a night at the family ranch in Crawford as a private citizen....
Yaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!
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"Bush makes farewell calls to leaders
How many said they were glad to see him go?
WASHINGTON - With just hours left in his term, President Bush yesterday made phone calls to more than a dozen leaders around the globe.
The White House said Bush chatted with: President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia; President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia; President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea; Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark; Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy; former President Vicente Fox of Mexico; Prime Minister Taro Aso of Japan; and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain; President Shimon Peres of Israel; President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil; President Nicolas Sarkozy of France; and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany.
National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said that during the calls, Bush thanked the leaders for the hospitality they had shown him and Laura Bush.
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And yet, they get one last victory on their way out:
"Cheney has broad discretion over records, judge says
WASHINGTON - A federal judge ruled yesterday that Vice President Dick Cheney has broad discretion in determining what records created during his eight-year tenure must be preserved. Absent any evidence that Cheney's office is failing to safeguard records, it is up to the vice president to determine how he deals with material, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled.
Throw that history down the rabbit hole -- literally!
"Congress drastically limited the scope of outside inquiries related to the vice president's handling of his own records during his term in office," the judge said in a 63-page opinion.
At issue is whether Cheney had impermissibly limited the scope of the Presidential Records Act, a post-Watergate law aimed at protecting White House records. Cheney has taken the legal position that his office is not part of the executive branch of government, triggering a lawsuit by several groups including three organizations of historians and archivists concerned that the record of Cheney's time in office might not be adequately safeguarded.
The lawsuit alleges that the Bush administration's actions over the last eight years call into question whether the White House will turn over to the National Archives a complete record of the activities of Cheney and his staff.
Yesterday, Cheney pulled a muscle in his back while moving boxes into his new home outside Washington and will be in a wheelchair for today's inauguration ceremony.
First of all, that has to be a bullshit story; Dogshit Dick doing manual labor?
I don;'t think so; the wheelchair is to gain sympathy for the war-criminal fuck on his way out (and so no one can kick him in the ass)!
Either way, it is KARMA, Dogshit!!!!
White House press secretary Dana Perino said the vice president's doctor recommended that he needed a wheelchair for the next couple of days.
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