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    Default War criminals pardoned by the president.

    It could go to the Trump thread, I guess, but, in my opinion, its implications are not limited to internal politics.

    The 4 pardoned mercenaries were involved in the Nisour square massacre, where 14 Iraqi civilians and police officers were killed, because Blackwater contractors are a bunch of psychopath amateurs. Three of them were in for repeated manslaughter, but the fourth had received a life sentence for first-degree murder. Apart from the tragic cost of lives, the massacre undermined the relations with Baghdad and even forced Blackwater to rename itself to the less tainted Academi.

    The lawyers of the criminals shed some tears about how their clients were innocent victims of unbearable circumstances, but the fact remains that 14 Iraqis were massacred for nothing. In all probability, not a single insurgent loitered in close proximity of the incident. So, I really don't see how their case was controversial, even by war-hawk, might makes right, Arabs are subhumans, crusade standards, and why the war-criminals merited any clemency.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...iraq-civilians

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    And where are all the pro-lifers now? Not a peep, as far as I can see. So the popular saying about die-hard pro-lifers holds true: "Life begins at conception and ends at birth."
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    Trump has of course pardoned war criminals before, not even this year.

    It's because Republicans like them: tough guys, victims of veteran-hating liberals. Trump probably does too, apart from pandering to the My Lai caucus.
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    https://www.newsday.com/long-island/...ter-1.50102324

    Convicted criminals granted pardons by President Donald Trump over the past four years tend to fit five overlapping categories:

    ...associates who could have turned on Trump and did not

    ...darlings of right-wing media

    ...war criminals and rogue law-enforcement bullies

    ...elite wrongdoers nailed by reputable prosecutors who Trump & Co happened to hate

    ...shameless flatterers
    In the first category:

    Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and other campaign apparatchiks, who knew much about what former special counsel Robert Mueller investigated, can now be considered taken care of — not with secret hush money but by fiat. Evidence suggested Trump intended to encourage Manafort not to cooperate with the government, according to Mueller’s report.
    In the second category:

    Those championed by right-wing media included four security guards from the private military firm Blackwater who were serving prison sentences for killing 14 Iraqi civilians including two children, and wounding dozens more, in a random 2007 massacre.
    In the third category:

    Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, the ex-Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff found guilty of contempt for defying federal orders restraining his aggressive profiling of Latinos. Also rewarded for his support was retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who twice admitted lying to the FBI in the Russia probe. So was former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who served time on corruption charges.
    In the fourth category:

    Trump also has seemed bent on dismantling convictions produced by law enforcers he deemed a threat. While in the Justice Department, former FBI Director James Comey pushed the big corruption case against former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose sentence Trump commuted.

    Ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who for the moment has broken from Trump, prosecuted Jared Kushner’s father, Charles, a real estate magnate who was pardoned last week.
    In the fifth category:

    Dinesh D’Souza, a media figure who pleaded guilty to campaign finance fraud, preposterously compares Trump with Abraham Lincoln. Conrad Black, a wealthy publisher convicted of white-collar fraud, had published an admiring book about Trump, "A President Like No Other." Stone, a self-described dirty trickster, still in fevered service, now goes so far as to spread ridiculous stories about election ballots being delivered in Maine on boats from North Korea.

    Disgraced ex-Rep. Chris Collins, who had been incarcerated on insider trading charges, got his free pass last week. When Collins, from the Buffalo area, became the first member of Congress to endorse Trump in 2016, he declared: "Donald Trump is the individual as president that can lead this country and reclaim our great state and provide a bright future for our children."
    This effing moron highlites category two & three:

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/pete-h...terans-stories

    Given that he's published that, of course he would say this:

    https://news.yahoo.com/fox-pete-hegs...162456703.html

    “God bless the president for having the courage which a lot of other presidents wouldn’t do to pardon those men.”
    Of course---soldiers who fought and died in two world wars are "suckers and losers", but ex-soldiers who murder innocent civilians are heroes.....
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