Should President Bush Commute John Walker Lindh's Prison Sentence?

Frankly, I hope he does. The kid is an idiot but not an enemy. Seven years for near fatal stupidity seems like a fair sentence.

Bush probably won't, though because he'd think it would weaken his legacy. Since more than a million already died or were maimed for his legacy, the kid is a drop in the bucket. Bush doesn't think like other people I'm familiar with, but for that matter neither does Lindh.

I think they should let the kid go, too. He did something incredibly stupid at the wrong time. If 9/11 hadn't been occurring, I doubt he would have been imprisoned. More likely, he'd have slunk home to his parents with his tail between his legs once he got his rebellion out of his system. It's tragic that a mistake made by an immature kid should destroy his life. No one died because of his actions. Bush should pardon him, there are murderers out there who spend a lot less than seven years in jail.

THIS GUY SHOULD BE COVERED IN PIG FAT AND SET ON FIRE!--LET THIS ENEMY OF THE USA GO TO HIS 72 VIRGINS LOOKING LIKE BURNT TOAST!

John Walker Lindh is a disgrace to his country and to his family. However, if President Bush commutes his sentence, then he should do it with the decree that John Walker Lindh will leave the United States permanently, never to return here again. We used to call this "exile" a long time ago. But I think the President has a right to commute the sentence of federal prisoners with any conditions he sees fit to put forth. The day Johnny Walker Lindh steps out of prison, United States Marshals shoud be there to greet him and escort him out of our country to the country of his choice. If he doesn't want to leave, the president can choose one for him or keep him in prison. He has demonstrated that he has no desire to be an American and we should do everything we can to divest him of his citizenship, and send him where he would be happy. It would have to be a country overseas because the Canadian and Mexican borders are too easy for him to sneak back in. The expense that it would cost our government to get rid of him for good would be a lot cheaper and more sensible then keeping him here in prison.

NO HE SHOULD NOT Commute the sentence! IF this had been someone from a DIFFERENT Ethnic Group, THE CALLS FOR HIS SENTENCE NOT BEING Commuted would be overwhelming. He Made His Bed, NOW Let Him Sleep In IT for the next 13 Plus Years! ALSO, Tell Mommy And Daddy to go and make Holiday Cookies for the ARSE Hole!

I see no compelling reason to reduce John Walker Lindh's sentence as he accepted a Constitutionally based plea bargain ("'American Taliban' asks Bush to reduce sentence, " Apr 5). What is deplorable is that the U. S. let the Australian off with a better bargain. Both are traitors, if not by definition, at least by behavior. If you experiment with drugs or religion, you sometimes make the wrong choices; when you add dealing drugs to support a habit or in Lindh's case, for religious conversion -- a religion that encouraged him to take up arms, you may get what you deserve several times over. I doubt that Lindh has learned much and his parents held no sway over their son's past behavior and nothing makes me believe that this criminal should be given a break until he completes his bargain with his devil and his adopted Afghanistan.

Lindh's perversion was his failure to internalized and affirm what are important U. S. values -- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness within our Constitutional constraints. Lindh has a future though: he can return to his beloved Middle East upon the completion of his sentence and apply for a "green card" to the country of his choice with the assistance of the Red Crescent Society just so he can find his definition of "Nirvana."

i do not agree with commuting his sentence, but exile sounds like something i could wrap my mind around after a panel checked him out to assess if he may become a threat after escorting him to the border.

AJM3377112:32PMDec 18th 2008

NO HE SHOULD NOT Commute the sentence! IF this had been someone from a DIFFERENT Ethnic Group, THE CALLS FOR HIS SENTENCE NOT BEING Commuted would be overwhelming. He Made His Bed, NOW Let Him Sleep In IT for the next 13 Plus Years! ALSO, Tell Mommy And Daddy to go and make Holiday Cookies for the ARSE Hole!
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why does it always come down to ethnicity with you guys?

if he was another ethnic group you would be yelling that it was because he is a minority that it is even being discussed...

get

over

it

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Hell Naw!!!! We won't even go black...let's go mexican...would they have they sentence commuted? This boy, no matter how immature, betrayed his country!!! That's wayyy worse than any hardcore thug in the hood. He should serve his sentence and then be exiled. But he won't be. He will be on the FBI watchlist for the rest of his life and should be. This child went as far as going to the enemies country and play offense. I don't give a damn!!!! I have a brother doing 106 years, for robbing 1 bank. without a weapon, nobody got hurt...and because he wouldn't roll over on his gangsta friends... he was hit with the harshest. He was also just a dumb kid.

He should have been shot to start with.

Not sure why this never occurred to me before, but does anyone have any idea whether John Walker Lindh is related to George Walker Bush? (GWB, like Poppy, is of course named after Poppy's mommy's daddy, George Herbert Walker, Sr. Which is the side of the family, BTW, that owned the estate in Maine, aka "Walker's Point.")

His punishment should also include responding to all of the Birther arguments. Give a hoot, don't commute.

For good measure, send his parents and little dog to GITMO.

Voice of Reason12:39PMDec 18th 2008

AJM3377112:32PMDec 18th 2008

NO HE SHOULD NOT Commute the sentence! IF this had been someone from a DIFFERENT Ethnic Group, THE CALLS FOR HIS SENTENCE NOT BEING Commuted would be overwhelming. He Made His Bed, NOW Let Him Sleep In IT for the next 13 Plus Years! ALSO, Tell Mommy And Daddy to go and make Holiday Cookies for the ARSE Hole!
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why does it always come down to ethnicity with you guys?

if he was another ethnic group you would be yelling that it was because he is a minority that it is even being discussed...

get

over

it

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I agree with this...Get over it!! Not everything has something to do with race.

I think he has done his time. Child murders have done less time than this. Let's be fair America. He served his time now let him go. By the way, there isnt any crime to not wanting to be an Americain. I am patriotic to some extents but I wonder sometimes if this is the best country to live in.

Was John on a secret mission for the CIA?? If he was, no one would be able to admit it because of his special situation. NO ONE. John was very intelligent, brave, and was able to infiltrate the Taliban and gain access to Bin Laden himself in order to gain very useful info (ie video?) which was shown on TV immediately after his capture. Was John really an American HERO? Read his TRUE story online.