Thursday, December 22, 2005
"American Taliban" Asks President Bush to Lessen Sentence
John Walker Lindh, the thug who went to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban against his own country, asked President Bush this week to lessen his 20 year sentence.
We say that President Bush SHOULD lessen it - from 20 years to 19 years, 364 days.
And not a day sooner.
Lindh Asks for Lighter Prison Sentence
If that future President is a Downie, Lindh may get his sentence reduced. Then again, a future President who is a Downie will just surrender the whole country to al Qaeda, and Lindh will probably serve in some al Qaeda-controlled Congress.
John Walker Lindh, the thug who went to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban against his own country, asked President Bush this week to lessen his 20 year sentence.
We say that President Bush SHOULD lessen it - from 20 years to 19 years, 364 days.
And not a day sooner.
Lindh Asks for Lighter Prison Sentence
WASHINGTON (AP) -- American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh has asked President Bush again to reduce his 20-year prison sentence by an unspecified amount, Lindh's attorney said Tuesday.
Lindh, now in his early 20s, wrote a first-person account to the Justice Department's pardon attorneys arguing why he believes Bush should reduce his sentence. Lindh's attorney said the document could not be publicly released under U.S. government restrictions intended to prevent Lindh from disclosing national secrets.
Lindh, imprisoned in southern California, was captured in Afghanistan weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He pleaded guilty in U.S. civilian court to supplying services to the Taliban government and carrying explosives for them, but the government dismissed terrorism-related charges against Lindh.
"As passions have cooled, it became clearer to people that John was a young man ... who was in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Lindh's attorney, James Brosnahan of San Francisco. "Hopefully, this president or some future president will reduce his sentence."
If that future President is a Downie, Lindh may get his sentence reduced. Then again, a future President who is a Downie will just surrender the whole country to al Qaeda, and Lindh will probably serve in some al Qaeda-controlled Congress.
