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He fought Saddam when the US was being stupid about it. There IS a problem with the "My country right or wrong" motto when taken beyond the point of morality. That problem is in fact and law, recognized. A Soldier must not obey and illegal order, and may well be held to account for blind obedience to such an order.

Pollard spyed. Morally, what he did is now proven right. He spyed to prevent a murderer, Saddam, from murdering. Was there a clear bright line of morality at the time? No. Some of our leaders thought is wise statecraft to support mudrderers and murderous regimes as long as they serve some "real-politik" interest of statecraft. Well , that's bunk. Always has been bunk. Morality is morality, and murderers are murderers.

Pollard's moral vision -- his compass -- was NOT as impaired as that of some of our leaders at the time. The fruit of such "real-politik" was brought home to all of us clearly on 9/11. The delusional age of "real-politik" that puts "shrewd" statecraft ahead of basic morality is over.

Not to belabor this on this thread, but, bvw, you cannot possibly be serious.

Pollard was not JUST sentenced for information he gave about Saddam. It was more than that, and you know it. And OTHER CHARGES were dropped to get a deal so it ALL wouldn't be exposed on national TV -- which I am SURE would have suited Pollard just fine; he'd already BETRAYED his country to another country, why not share all its secrets with the entire world.

You're making it sound like he did it for some noble reason, when, in fact, he did it FOR MONEY.

And you can whine all you want to about how long he's served; most of us believe he should have been SHOT on the spot and are fine and dandy with the government making an example out of him.

He should rot in hell. Surely you must be able to find someone besides a despicable traitor to champion.