I have no idea of the weight and consequences of the crimes that Bush has pardoned, but it's good that he's used it less than Bill and Ronnie.
Always seemed to me like a practice ripe for abuse.
I find it quite a remarkable practice, actually.
It made sense in the case of that medical team in Algeria or wherever it was who were wrongly accused of giving patience AIDS, allowed to have their sentence served out in their native Bulgaria (I think?) and the immediately granted a pardon by the president or king or whoever it was.
But otherwise it just strikes me as an odd practice that a head of state should have the ability to over-ride the judicial system.
