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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight criticized Bill Clinton over Marc Rich, strangely silent over Barbour pardons!!
I have not heard a single right winger criticize Haley Barbour over pardoning 200 people, including murderers.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)exboyfil
(17,857 posts)They are ready to crucify him over at Free Republic. Actually some of the pardons made sense like the three strikes life sentence pardon for burglary. Also letting the systems out for the kidney transplant seemed like a reasonable move. Letting the murderers out though - a real head scratcher.
blm
(112,920 posts)GOP players (BushInc) were the ones who put the Rich pardon in the pipeline. Clinton pardoned Rich for GHWBUsh - Rich was a named figure in both IranContra and BCCI reports, and it was Scooter Libby who repped Rich as a BFEE legal fixer for some time and appealed for the pardon. Alot of the crap you hear around the pardon was bluster from both GOPs and Clintonites,because none of the real powers wanted the true details to become public.
Bush, Jackson Stephens and Mark Rich sure got away with ALOT thanks to the continuing coverups of IranContra and BCCI crimes throughout the 90s.
No wonder certain Dems did NOT want a President Kerry accessing 'national security documents' that had been squirreled away, out of the reach of any investigation.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Pappy Bush won an election based on racist Willie Horton ads and rhetoric.
When he was Arkansas governor, Huckabee released a couple of convicted criminals. The Righties said very little (that is, of course, until they wanted Grandpa McSame to win in 2008).
These people have no shame. NONE!!!