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Bush’s Final Mistake: Showing Mercy on Ramos and Compean
pajamasmedia.com - 1/21/2009
Bush’s Final Mistake: Showing Mercy on Ramos and Compean
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The former Border Patrol agents are anything but heroes for shooting a drug dealer in the back and covering it up.

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Confederate Yankee:  Shooting Suspects in the Back is Bad.

Breaking: Bush commutes sentences of Ramos and Compean
hotair.com - 1/19/2009
Breaking: Bush commutes sentences of Ramos and Compean
— hotair.com — Just across the AP wire , a gift to the base on his way out the door. [...] Read the rest » (more) Breaking: Bush commutes sentences of Ramos and Compean
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salon.com - 1/19/2009
The case of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila and Agents Ramos and Compean of the U.S. Border Patrol | ...
— salon.com — Sept. 4, 2007 | Two years ago, in the Texas desert southeast of El Paso, two U.S. Border Patrol agents fired 15 bullets at a suspected drug dealer who was fleeing on foot toward the border. The man, a Mexican national, was hit once in the buttocks but ... (more) The case of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila and Agents Ramos and ...
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wizbangblog.com - 1/19/2009
Breaking: Bush commutes sentences of Compean and Ramos
— wizbangblog.com — At last! President George W. Bush has commuted the prison sentences of two former Border Patrol guards whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited debate about illegal immigration.... (more) Breaking: Bush commutes sentences of Compean and Ramos

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Shooting Suspects in the Back is Bad.
Confederate Yankee — Shooting Suspects in the Back is Bad. My post at Pajamas Media this morning is drawing a lot of heat for labeling President Bush's commutation of former Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean his "final mistake." I can certainly see the other side of the equation, as I personally prefer a walled, wired, and if necessary mined border with Mexico, but this case isn't as hard for me at least as some people would like to make it. Cops that shoot fleeing suspects in the back, leave the wounded suspect to fend for himself, and then attempt to cover-up the incident deserve ...

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