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...find it peculiar that Dick Cheney - who has never seen a battlefield in his life - would characterize Scooter Libby's plight as leaving a soldier on the battlefield [Aug. 3]. During the G.W. Bush Administration, I was struck by the fervor for military action from an inner circle who had largely not served in the U.S. armed forces. The odd man out during the drumbeat for war was Colin Powell, whose long military career included serving in Vietnam and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His voice of caution against entanglement in Iraq resulted in his getting pushed...
...your article on the final days of the Bush White House: I was dismayed by the incomplete retelling of the Scooter Libby-Valerie Plame investigation. A major reason Dick Cheney pushed for the pardon was that he was not the original leaker. That person, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, was not even mentioned in your article. No underlying national-security crime was committed by the accidental leak of Plame's name (as demonstrated by the lack of charges), and as such, Libby's perjury was ancillary to the investigation. Gregory Eschbacher, FANWOOD...
...very interesting to discover points of disagreement between Bush and Cheney and the mood in the White House at that time. However, I am slightly disturbed by your description of George W. Bush as a President who believed in fairness in the judicial system. His attitude toward Libby's pardon is strikingly different from the way matters such as interrogations and extraordinary renditions were dealt with during his term. Naeem Meer, LE VESINET, FRANCE...
White House Warriors I find it peculiar that Dick Cheney - who has never seen a battlefield in his life - would characterize Scooter Libby's plight as leaving a soldier on the battlefield [Aug. 3]. During the G.W. Bush Administration, I was struck by the fervor for military action from an inner circle who had largely not served in the U.S. armed forces. The odd man out during the drumbeat for war was Colin Powell, whose long military career included serving in Vietnam and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His voice of caution against entanglement in Iraq resulted...
...thesis that Bush's "Truthfulness" opposed Cheney's amorality in the Libby affair is laughable. Where was this so-called ethical sobriety in the cynical justifications for a catastrophic war, torture and increased domestic surveillance? Bush and Cheney share an equal comfort with dark-side politics. Alan Johnson, POCATELLO, IDAHO...