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By Shankar Vedantam | Monday, July 9, 2007 | The Washington Post

In the new book “Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)” by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, a classic experiment in psychology by Dr Roy Baumeister is cited:

…”When people described events in which they were the perpetrators of wrongdoing, they invariably said their actions had caused only brief pain to others. Many said the hurtful acts were justified or could not have been prevented. When people reported the same kinds of incidents as victims, however, they invariably described the actions as inexplicable, senseless and immoral. Victims never felt that the wrongdoing was unavoidable. And they reported that the pain lasted a long time.”

Bush’s actions with Scooter Libby can be viewed through that same lens…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/08/AR2007070800742_pf.html