Businessman Pardoned by Clinton Found Dead

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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I don't know what this particular guy was in jail for but Clinton pardoned 177 people and they weren't just tax evaders. He pardoned people for all kinds of crimes including drug-dealing. The thing that is so disturbing is that the pardons were basically for sale.

How can you compare that to Iraq? There was nothing sinister about wanting to remove Saddam Hussein from office. Everybody wanted him removed. The invasion had bi-partisan support. John Kerry had advocated invading Iraq well before 9/11. In an interview on Face the Nation back in either 1999 or 2000, Kerry suggested that we may need to act unilaterally and go into Iraq and remove Hussein.

By the way, do you honestly think that if a democrat would have been elected in 2004, that the war would be going much better right now? I don't. I'm not saying that we are doing a great job but I think it's a really bad situation over there and I doubt things would be going much better no matter who was in charge.

By the way, I liked how you changed the subject. There was no way to defend Clinton's actions on these pardons, so you decided you would change the subject and bring up the war in Iraq.

interesting stuff. # of pardons/clemencies by President:

http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/actions_administration.htm

in round #s:
truman 2,000
eisenhower 1,200
kennedy 600
nixon 900
ford 400 (impressive for just 29 months on the job)
carter 600
reagan 400
bush sr 75 (better have a good story. includes a few turkeys just to get the number higher)
clinton 550
gw bush 70 thru Dec, 2005 (saving them up!)