HIM we're going to shoot?

From The New York Times:

BAGHDAD, April 26 — The American military has charged a top commander at its main detention center here with nine violations of military law, including “aiding the enemy,” a rare and serious accusation that could carry a death sentence.

According to a military statement released Thursday, the officer, Lt. Col. William H. Steele, provided aid to the enemy between Oct. 1, 2005, and Oct. 31, 2006, “by providing an unmonitored cellular phone to detainees” at Camp Cropper, an expansive prison near Baghdad International Airport that held Saddam Hussein before he was hanged.

Colonel Steele, who oversaw one of several compounds at Camp Cropper as commander of the 451st Military Police Detachment, was also charged with several counts of illegally storing and marking classified information; failure to obey an order; possession of pornographic videos; dereliction of duty regarding government funds; and conduct unbecoming of an officer — for fraternizing with the daughter of a detainee since 2005, and for maintaining “an inappropriate relationship” with an interpreter in 2005 and 2006.

There were no further details given to explain the circumstances of the accusations.

I do not know if the charges against Colonel Steele are true or not, but I want to ask a question.

Let's assume for the sake of discussion that this man did everything which he is accused of doing. Would what he did have been one millionth as harmful to the US war effort as what the Democrats in congress did on Thursday in voting to withhold funds for the troops unless the administration agrees in advance to surrender?

We may put this Colonel Steele up against a wall and shoot him (or at the very least dishonorably discharge and jail him) but Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are going to continue to walk around free and keep cashing their government paychecks?

Where is the justice in that? If the Democrats can do what they did yesterday and suffer no consequence for it then the legal concept of treason, of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, has no more meaning.