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TIME.com: The Bush administration asked the National Academy of Sciences to investigate global warming, and the Academy's panel reported that - contra President Bush's campaign claim that the science of global warming was inconclusive - the planet is indeed getting warmer as a result of human activities. The President travels to Europe next week, where he'll have to defend his administration's stance on global warming and the Kyoto treaty. Where does the Academy's study leave...
...That is an important distinction to make," he says, pointing to the Iran Contra scandal as negative example of abdication...
...fueled his impeachment; Gerald Ford's of Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas 1992 pardon of Caspar Weinberger after the Iran-contra scandal--which had a self-serving element, since a trial might have focused new attention on Bush's role--found a larger rationale. Those earlier pardons "were attempts to put an escapade behind the country, to heal the wound, to bring the country together," says Chicago-Kent College...
...this, as Democrats claim, another Republican attempt to smear Clinton's name? He is hardly the first to grant pardons to those with whom he has political or personal ties. Former president George H. W. Bush pardoned six colleagues involved in the Iran-Contra affair, a move that ended the independent counsel's ability to prosecute the incident (especially significant, given that Bush was himself a key suspect...
George W. Bush has kept quiet about Clinton's pardons, knowing he will want to issue a few of his own. His father, after losing re-election, pardoned Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-contra players. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, kept in the dark until those pardons were announced, accused Bush of trying to keep himself off the witness stand. Clinton can hope the memory of his pardons will fade just as quickly...