Bush rejects request to release Pollard

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/625093.html

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"U.S. President George Bush has rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's request that he pardon convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.

Sharon and Bush met on Wednesday at the UN World Summit, and at the end of the meeting, Sharon said he wanted to raise a very delicate issue: that of Pollard, who has thus far served 20 years in jail for spying for Israel. "If you want to help me, his release will help me more than anything else," Sharon said.

Bush responded that he has considered all sorts of ideas for how to help Sharon following the disengagement, but that particular idea never entered his head. He also noted that Sharon has raised the issue of Pollard at every one of their meetings, and said he has considered it each time, but his position has not changed."

[tech3149]

1. Well I suppose if you don't consider it

you're position won't change. What an effin dolt. I still drink more than he probably ever did and I'd bet I've got more neural activity than he had at 10.

[ShockediSay]

2. As I recall Netanyahu also made the same request for the foreign

spy that was linked to the death of our agents abroad. I think Pollard deserved the death penalty.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Pollard's spying did not damage the US like the Plame leak

No one died on account of Pollard. All things considered, Pollard is getting a harsher treatment than anyone caught in similar circumstances.

[Big_Mike]

4. Frankly, what he did was treason.

Espionage, whether for a friendly country, like he did, or for a likely opponent, like Walker, is one area where the framers thought led to treason, as it is an act against the country as a whole. He was a US citizen providing information to a foreign power. I say he should stay in prison until he dies, and be buried in the prison cemetary.

[Devil Dog Dem]

5. I'm surprised Bush didn't release him during the 2004 elections.

It would have been such an obvious suck-up to Jewish voters in important swing states like FLorida and Ohio, it had Rove's name written all over it.

[Zhade]

6. Wow, he actually does something RIGHT.

Never thought I'd say THAT!

[wordout]

7. Bush's next SC nominee.