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There are three key points to look at to determine who is the worse traitor between Lindh and Rove: Intent, Execution and Result.
Intent-
Lindh was motivated by a youthful, yet misguided zeal for a newfound religion; this led him to reject his American values in favor of the Muslim extremist Taliban.
Rove is no child, his politicial chicanery goes back to the Nixon White House. He rejected American values in favor of power politics at any cost.
Execution-
Lindh left the country he rejected to go be among those he agreed with; an honest, above board break- whether you agree with it or not. He was captured under an enemy flag; case closed.
Rove used our political process to advance his personal ambition; like a cancer he has corrupted our system from the insde for over 30 years. He has mocked our virtues as American's by using the symbols and offices of our nation as a punchline in his sick joke of a career. He was caught betraying not just an Intelligence Officer, but every contact and operation she ever had, or ever would have had.
Result-
Lindh's capture was sideshow to the War in Afgahnistan. He was literally dug out of a hole with the broken and beleagured soldiers of the Taliban; but in reality had zero effect on our National Security other than the embarassment at his defection.
Rove's betrayal of Plame will be felt for years, perhaps decades. Even as we debate this on DU, foreign governments are rounding up and interrogating everyone Wilson and Plame had contact with. As a valuable primary resource for the War on Terror and WMD's she has been completely rendered useless. Agents will be harder to recruit under a republican from now because they will be unsure how safe they are if they report bad news. The US has been blinded in one of the most volitile regions of the world- all because Karl Rove put partisan revenge above the security of the United States.
Clearly, by standards of comparrison, Karl Rove is by far a worse Traitor than Lindh ever hoped to be. Where's Rove's Military Tribunal? Does the Army still hang Traitors?
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