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Report: US to release Pollard in Barghouti swap deal
JERUSALEM POST ^ | Apr. 16, 2006 | Staff

Posted on 04/15/2006 4:31:49 PM PDT by Sabramerican

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To: CWOJackson
This is one of the reason I favor the death penalty for traitors and spies.

Would you also be in favor of the death penalty for OUR spies who are caught? Here's a news flash for you: Everybody spies on one another. It's a game. In the spy game, you jail them until such time as a good trade comes up (not that this particular trade, if true, qualifies).

Traitors should be summarily executed in every case, with hout exception. I would also add terrorists to this list.

81 posted on 04/15/2006 5:33:40 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Yes, I would have preferred Hanson put to death.


82 posted on 04/15/2006 5:35:05 PM PDT by onyx (It's easier to indict a ham sandwich or Tom DeLay than it is to indict a Democrat.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
"Would you also be in favor of the death penalty for OUR spies who are caught?... Traitors should be summarily executed in every case, with hout exception."

Pollard was an American citizen spying for a foreign nation...he's a traitor.

83 posted on 04/15/2006 5:36:27 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

you will never get the truth about this case.


84 posted on 04/15/2006 5:37:58 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Sabramerican
US would free imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in exchange for Israel releasing jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.

Why would we want Marwan? (if we cant properly interrogate him).

85 posted on 04/15/2006 5:41:06 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
It's a game. In the spy game, you jail them until such time as a good trade comes up (not that this particular trade, if true, qualifies).

There are exceptions to every rule...What would the Iranians or Palestinians do if they caught an American Spy on their soil?


86 posted on 04/15/2006 5:43:31 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Joe Boucher

Or shot, or perhaps both.How many Americans did he help kill?


87 posted on 04/15/2006 5:47:47 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulfBeachClub)
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To: Sabramerican
Just when you think things can't get any slimier. Let's see--
Illegals getting amnesty-----why not Pollard. (sarcasm)
88 posted on 04/15/2006 5:48:50 PM PDT by Isabelle
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To: Sabramerican

Why the heck would we want Barf-Gouli free? Dead perhaps, but free?!

Makes no sense at all...


89 posted on 04/15/2006 5:51:45 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: onyx
Yes, I would have preferred Hanson put to death.

Agreed. US citizens who spy for foreign powers are traitors who should be summarily executed,

90 posted on 04/15/2006 5:52:08 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: CWOJackson
Pollard was an American citizen spying for a foreign nation...he's a traitor.

Agreed.

91 posted on 04/15/2006 5:53:07 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: okie01
Israel should consider the consequences of such an exchange very carefully.

Israel already decided in the last elections that pensions are more important than foreign policy.

92 posted on 04/15/2006 5:53:56 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: Sabramerican

Why would Bush want Israel to release a multi murderer terrorist? I thought he was leading a war against terror.


93 posted on 04/15/2006 5:54:19 PM PDT by Honestfreedom
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To: spyone

Pollard was not convicted of treason.


94 posted on 04/15/2006 5:56:23 PM PDT by Honestfreedom
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To: Honestfreedom

Passing on national secrets is treason, no matter what the plea bargain.


95 posted on 04/15/2006 5:57:42 PM PDT by spyone
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To: spyone

John Walker Lyn (sp?) who did take up arms against the USA for an enemy in a time of war got a sentence less than the time Pollard has already served.


96 posted on 04/15/2006 5:57:46 PM PDT by Honestfreedom
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To: Phsstpok

Barghouti is the enemy of Hamas.


97 posted on 04/15/2006 5:57:58 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Thanks, Tom. I figured we were on the same page.


98 posted on 04/15/2006 5:58:43 PM PDT by onyx (It's easier to indict a ham sandwich or Tom DeLay than it is to indict a Democrat.)
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To: spyone

No it is not. Treason is an offense committed on behalf of an enemy during war. Israel is not an enemy and we were not at war at the time.


99 posted on 04/15/2006 5:58:56 PM PDT by Honestfreedom
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To: Honestfreedom

John Walker Lynd was not employed by the US government in a sensitive position handling national secrets. He was a goofy teenager fighting for a goofy cause. If we can't differential the two, we might as well give up.


100 posted on 04/15/2006 6:00:46 PM PDT by spyone
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