[ProtectOurFreedom]

We haven't heard about Johnny Taliban lately. More anti-American tripe from Herhold lambasting America for the evil "abuses" at Abu Ghurayb and the unfairness of convicting and incarcerating Johnny Lindh

If O is elected, then Mr. Lindh senior will certainly get his wish for his son's sentence to be commuted by the President. O's muslim sympathies run wide and deep, regardless of how much the MSM tries to sweep them aside: his father(s) religion, his years studying islam in Indonesia, travels to Pakistan when nonbelievers could not enter to the country, connections with Farrakhan, lauding the muslim call to prayer as the "most beautiful sound in the world" and even recently saying "my muslim faith" in his interview with Stephanopoulos.

[yazoo]

“In retrospect, his son’s biggest enemy was bad timing.”

Treason is treason and timing has nothing to do with it. He should have been executed.

[12Gauge687]

Another good reason to NOT vote for Obambi.

[Cindy]

FreeRepublic.com - Discussion Forum (CBS5, September 24, 2008): "FATHER OF 'AMERICAN TALIBAN' LINDH URGES PARDON" (September 25, 2008)

ARLINGTON CEMETERY.net: "JOHNNY MICHEAL SPANN, Captain, United States Marine Corps, Central Intelligence Agency Officer"

[softwarecreator]

In retrospect, his son's biggest enemy was bad timing.

To quote Col. Stuart in Die Hard 2:
I think Cardinal Richilieu said it best: 'Treason is merely a matter of dates'

[BallyBill]

I thought it meant Bush 41 for a second....Whooooaa!

[xmission]

How about we pardon Ramos and Compeon (sp?) instead

[Slings and Arrows]

Dad wants Bush to commute sentence of John Walker Lindh, American Taliban

People in hell want ice water.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I can think of 3,000 reasons for leaving his sorry as to rot in prison.

[Steely Tom]

Obama will spring him on Day 2.

[nmh]

He should have been EXECUTED.

There is no doubt that he is a TRAITOR.

GEESH!

He should be counting his blessings not looking for punishment defined further down. Geesh at this rate why not have a ticker tape parade for the traitor?

[gwilhelm56]

There is ONE way I’d end LIndh’s sentence.. and that is at the END of a ROPE!!

[COBOL2Java]

Right or wrong, you can't escape the feeling that John Walker Lindh paid heavily because of the temper of the times. Now he faces almost as damning a fate, one his father is trying to bend. He isn't reviled. He's forgotten.

Tell that to the family of Johnny Spann!

[itsthejourney]

Egads, you forgot the BARF warning! No, his "biggest enemy" was his father who allowed his "young" son to run off, betray his country, and behave as he did. The "young" Lindh was fighting against and killing Americans of the same age. As I've said many times here back during that time, the media was going all out on his youth... but he's only a boy... he's just 19. Excuse me, but he was the same age and older than many American troops but we call those brave souls men and women, not children.

Working link:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10568076?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com

[jazusamo]

Lowlife Lindh should have been executed for aiding in the murder of Johnny “Mike” Spann.

[magellan]

What part of The United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3 does daddy Lindh not understand:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

Johnny Taliban got off light.

[marajade]

Besides your own opinion where on earth gives you the idea that Obama would pardon Lindh?

[Emperor Palpatine]

Who cares what dad wants? Sure he loves his traitor son. Big deal.

Ma barker loved her sons, too.

[softwarecreator]

Man, what a one sided piece. To read this you'd think he was just some nice young man who chose a 'religion of peace' and was unjustly apprehended and imprisoned because of the intolerance of the country at that time.

This is sickening and the Mercury News (whoever they are) should be ashamed to publish such an article.

[CrazyIvan]

I've got $50.00 that says that if this guy gets off the hook he'll be campaigning for Obama.

[Toespi]

I think his sentence should be commuted. Afterall, what he has done to this country on a treasonous and seditious level is nothing in comparison to the daily treason we hear from others such as Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, CNN, The New York Times et al, David Letterman, Osama binLaden, Mr. & Mrs. Barrack Hussein Obama, Jeremiah Wright, blah, blah, blah, and the list goes on. Why should this boy be held responsible for what he has listened to and been exposed to in his own country every day of his young and impressionable life? Geesh, he wasn’t even in this country when he committed HIS crime. Give the guy a break.