Margie Burns :: The Nixon pardon, another preemptive strike against the Kennedys. Part 1

Interesting article.

Some facts we, too, have been pondering.

Are the Clintons shacked up with straying NeoCons?

Ase have pointed out before, the NeoCons do not suffer from party loyalty. They are only loyal to their own theories.

Margie Burns :: The Nixon pardon, another preemptive strike against the Kennedys. Part 1:

Practically the first thing President William Jefferson Clinton did on entering the White House was in effect to shut off congressional investigation into the Reagan-Bush scandal of Iran-Contra. Practically the last thing Clinton did on leaving the White House was to pardon fugitive billionaire financier Marc Rich, heavily involved in Iran-Contra. If Senator Clinton is indeed serious about running for the White House – by no means a given – it will be important to ask her why her spouse prevented investigation into Iran-Contra. But in any case, when Mr. Clinton dies, I shall be surprised if any neo-con or other right-winger refers to either of these Clinton actions as “healing.”

Not that the episodes are likely to be mentioned – corporate media outlets seldom bring up Iran-Contra – but if they are, it will be generally and accurately registered that their primary healing was to Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Marc Rich, and their personnel, some of whom serve under the current White House, rather than to the nation. This withholding of grateful acknowledgement will not be mitigated by the fact that the beneficiaries of Clinton’s shutting down investigation and prosecution in Iran-Contra are the patrons and promoters of neo-cons and neo-con policies. As we know by now, neo-con gratitude doesn’t work that way.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.