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Highrisemech refers to the President's past remarks: “…he sided with the wrong side, the losing side, and as the President so put it the "evil ones".”
In these excerpts from the 20/20 interview on 12/5, the President sounds like he could be “John's” lawyer!
“WALTERS ** What about American citizens… John Walker Lindh, who is a 20-year-old American.
PRESIDENT BUSH ** Yeah…
WALTERS ** He's fought for the Taliban. He is being held by U.S. forces. What do you do with him? Is he a traitor?
PRESIDENT BUSH ** Well, we didn't find out the circumstances…
WALTERS ** And then… (Inaudible)
PRESIDENT BUSH ** …Well, we think — we're not sure — we're just trying to learn the facts about this poor fellow.
Obviously he has been misled. It appears to me he thought he was going to fight for a great cause; and in fact, he was going to support a government that was one of the most repressive governments in the history of mankind. Surely he was raised better than to know that a government that suppresses women and women's rights, that doesn't educate young girls, is not the kind of government worth dying for.
WALTERS ** What do we do with him?
PRESIDENT BUSH ** I don't know. We're trying to figure that out. I can't make any news right now because we're in the process of determining what to do with John. “
LawyerRon,
I'll have to bone up on sedition but it seems a stretch to apply it to a rank and file soldier. He is a POW, isn't he?
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