The "Scooter" Libby Verdict

On one hand you hate to see any person in legal problems, but then again it was "Scooter" Libby himself who decided to throw himself under a truck to defend "higher ups" in the Bush Administration. In this administration, especially in the Vice president's office you find a meaness and a vindicative nature not seen since the days of the corrupt Nixon Watergate administration. Any administration hell bent on "getting even" with opponents and schoolyard bully antics only sets itself up for investigations and prosecutions. This is not a mature way of conducting a national government.

It apparently so angered some members of the Bush Administration when an Ambassador wrote a piece that concluded that Saddam Hussein was not purchasing nuclear materials in Africa to turn into nuclear fuel for bombs, that some members of this administration decided to undermine intelligence security and out a CIA agent who was the wife of this Ambassador. This is politics of the worst.

Even former Republican Congressman, Dick Armey, has been highly critical of this Nixon "Watergate" type conduct in this administration. Dick Armey's sense of values and integrity have been deeply offended by this outrageous conduct in the Bush Administration.

Americans certainly have the right to expect far better of their government than this. This is only another way in which this administration has managed to let down the "integrity" it promised to put in the White House during the 2000 election run by candidate Bush. But did the public really expect much better from a former alcohol and cocaine abuser, with a shady history up to the age of about 40. Why someone with so much personal baggage ran for president, and why some actually expected integrity from him is the greatest leap of faith ever heard of.