>>>>>>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091231/ap_on_go_ot/us_blackwater_prosecution
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>>>>>>>>Anyone who had bet that the Blackwater gunslingers would be convicted has lost.
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>>>>>>>Slowly slowly.
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>>>>>>>They are hundreds of thousands of those blackies, eventually someone will get charged.
>>>>>>>I can foresee dozens of reckless driving charges being given, sprinkled occasionally with brutally high parking tickets.
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>>>>>>>Justice is slow but ...
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>>>>>>I don't know. This was probably about as bad as anything they have done and the guys all got off scot free.
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>>>>>You can thank the State Department for that one.
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>>>>The State Department under Obama and Clinton.
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>>>Right you are, Bill! They took an 8 year sabbatical while Bush was in office. Thanks for the reminder.
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>>>If there is one thing I know about Washington, or think I know, it's that Presidents come and go and institutions go on and on. They may like some Presidents more than others but nothing interferes with their core, internally defined, mission. I would no more blame Bush for what the State Department does than Obama, Clinton, Bush I, etc. etc. etc.
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>>Mike - you blamed Bush for stuff that Clinton did before he was in office, and the Democrats are still trying to blame him for their failures now.
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>The blame game is one anyone can play. It was just interesting that your criticism of the State Department took a swipe at the two most recent Democratic Presidents without mentioning the Republican in between. My point was that what the State Department does is not overly influenced by who is in office. They are an institution unto themselves.
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>BTW, I saw your grandfather's name in a baseball history book at Sport Clips yesterday.

He was my uncle. Suprisingly nice guy for a lawyer!