Debate is raging over the proper punishment for John Walker, the California 20-year-old who fought with the Taliban against the U.S. What do you think?

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  I hope that traitor spends the rest of his life locked away in substantially better living conditions than he had in Afghanistan.

  Peter Dunn
  Systems Analyst

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  Why couldn't he have been like other shallow, overprivileged white kids and just spent a few years in Prague?

  Vicki Robbins
  Psychologist

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  As CEO of a major scotch manufacturer, I demand that he be referred to as John Lindh. Our image is going down the toilet, goddammit.

  Tom Eisen
  CEO

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  Treason or not, I think it was hurtful and tasteless of Walker to go around in blackface like that.

  Frank Costello
  Delivery Driver

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  We could execute Walker, or we could sentence him to tour the country's elementary schools lecturing on how plotting to destroy the U.S. is a dead end.

  Burt Bynum
  Cashier

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  That's it. I'm pulling my son Jason out of that Pakistani madrassa pronto.

  Roberta Davis
  Dental Hygienist