IF it goes badly for Cheney he may opt for exile.

[donhakman]

He may go into exile to escape prosecution.

F Novak, F Limbaugh, F em all. Try and make Cheney a martyr all you want.

But lets prosecute him to the fullest length of the law.

[gratuitous]

1. He's already sent Ted Olson ahead

Olson's scouting out areas in friendly countries without extradition treaties. If they can ascertain that Brazil doesn't have any blacks, I'd have to say that they'll all be flying down to Rio.

[rogerashton]

2. He could hang out with his buddy

Charles Taylor in Nigeria.

Unlike Saddam Hussein, of course, Taylor actually did support the 9-11 strike -- so he owes Cheyney one in that the Bush-Cheyney administration never followed up the evidence on Taylor's involvement. So it should be a very friendly exile.

[donhakman]

3. excuse my lapse

but who is Taylor?

[rogerashton]

8. Formerly the dictator of Liberia

and, according to Washington Post reports based on German evidence, provided the al Qaeda group that organized the 9-11 strike with a hideout in the period just after the strike, as well as helping them with money laundering via blood diamonds. However, Taylor, who claims to be a fundamentalist Christian, was not investigated by the present administration. He has been overthrown by opposition in Liberia but went into exile in Nigeria.

[Old and In the Way]

4. I'm think Qatar....or maybe Kuwait

Gotta stay close to those Halliburton investments.

[lanparty]

5. Saudi Arabia ..

No question about. Saudi Arabia is "home away from home" for the Busheviks.

I don't think there is any chance of this however. Bush will pardon him first. I'm actually suspicious that Bush will resign a day before his term is up. That way Cheney can pardon him.

Finally, I think we need a constitutional amendment regarding pardons

1. A president cannot pardon anyone who has worked for his administration. He cannot pardon anyone who worked for him in the private sector.

2. Congress may annul a presidential pardon with an exclusive 60% vote in both houses. Such a vote must only concern the annulment of pardons.

3. The president may not pardon individuals in the period 3 days before the presidential to the time when the president elect takes the oath of office.

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This would take care of the problem with thieves and scoundrels pardoning all their co-conspirators. Bush Sr pardoned anyone who could link him to Iran/Contra. Conviction of low level figures is the only way to get the top rats.

[donhakman]

6. lanparty

Thats durn clever.

A mutual pardon party.

[BeFree]

7. Good idea!

Stop political pardons. Damn good thinking.

While we are at it, how about we stop political appointments of persons who were not elected in a recent campaign? The appointment of Ashcroft as AG soon after he lost a US Senate race (to a dead man, btw) is as good an example of cronyism as one could expect.

After all, when the people reject someone at the polls, that person is obviously not wanted in government. But then they get placed anyway, what kind of BS is that?