So who did Bush end up pardoning anyway?

[Darius871]

I remember Oerdin was certain there'd be a huge stack of midnight pardons for admin officials but I never saw anything in the news (except for those two border patrol guys) since it was all preoccupied with that whole inauguration thing. Anybody know how many were spared and some of the most notable ones?

[Dinner]

I was completely surprised there weren't more pardons. I can only guess that Bush knew Democrats would be to pussyfooted to actually call him on his crimes.

[Darius871]

Yes, I'm sure that's it.

[Dinner]

Don't under estimate it.

[Riesstiu IV]

I myself was pardoned for the My Lai massacre.

[divideand...]

Some dude that supplied Israel with airplanes to fight off the arab armies, lol.

[Dinner]

He commuted the sentences of some border patrol agents who shot people and then lied about it to their superiors. That's relatively tame though and not the pardons I thought he'd issue. My best guess is he thought pardons would make him look guilty and he knew Democrats just wouldn't want to force him to account for his crimes. He's probably right about that.

[Unimatrix11]

Wait ! Bush is to pardon. people ? If anything, people should be pardoning him !

[Winston]

So on all the occasions where people said to him, "Pardon me, Mr. President.." he just wasn't listening. Now isn't that just typical.

[Imran Siddiqui]

... Or Bush just didn't want to pardon a lot of people and the "sky is falling" Dems showed themselves to be idiots once again.

[Winston]

Now that's just ludicrous!

[Unimatrix11]

hihi - i just had a funny idea...

How about not having one ruling guy, put a cabinet of ministers (without a prime). They decide what to do in concensus, but for everything they do decide on, the one who suggested it must personally bear the most severe consequences of it for at least just one day/time. In a real way, not in a political way. So instead of retiring and saying sorry, be like ´in the field´.
So one guy really wants to bomb another country, and it gets approved by the other cabinet members, he can go forward, bomb, but he himself, must go into said country until he has been in the immediate proximity of a bombing raid himself at least once and for the next 24h following. Or if some cabinet members suggests torture be okay, he himself should be tortured once, after the law is okay´ed. Kind of difficult to suggest death penalty under such a system, i guess... But if they are corrupt and profit from their politics, one could at least say they somehow paid for and kinda deserved it (the profit).

[Patroklos]

... Or Bush just didn't want to pardon a lot of people and the "sky is falling" Dems showed themselves to be idiots once again.

I am sure as time passes we will discover a lot of this. Obama's people have had weeks to pour over classified info and have yet to release a single thing pointing to the sinister things they constantly accused Bush of.

[rah]

Let's have a search contest. Let's find a list of all the people that Bush pardoned and all the people that Clinton pardoned and then we can do a sleaze comparison. I wonder who will end up looking more sleazy?

[Elok]

Didn't Bush sneak in some legislation months ago preemptively pardoning his torturers in case of future trials? I seem to remember something like that being brought up on Poly. In which case, Bush just plans ahead with his pardons. Pity he couldn't plan ahead in any other respect.