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Bowe Bergdahl's father shaves his controversial beard to mark his son's release ...[truncated]
UK Daily Mail ^ | 9 June 2014 | James Nye and Daily Mail Reporters

Posted on 06/09/2014 9:39:26 AM PDT by matt1234

Bob Bergdahl's beard became the most controversial facial hair in all of America, but now critics who accused him of looking like a member of the Taliban can rest easy - he has shaved.

Grown in order to mark the time his son was in captivity as a POW in Afghanistan, neighbors of Bergdahl in Hailey, Idaho, have said that the former UPS truck driver is now clean shaven.

This comes as it was reported that Bowe Bergdahl is still refusing to speak to his family, despite being sent a letter from his sister, as he recovers in an Army hospital in Germany.

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To: jstaff
I wish them both well in the next life, but I think they have pretty well screwed this one up.

Jane Fonda was always annoyed that decent Americans continued to hold her treason against her, even weeks after she came back from her beach vacation with her communist friends, not to mention continuing to mentioning it years and even decades later. When your treason is national news (and thanks to Obama taking a victory lap around the Rose Garden celebrating his brilliant trade of one junior deserter for five senior terrorists, Bergdahl's case is as noticeable as Hanoi Jane's), it's hard to live that down.

41 posted on 06/09/2014 10:21:13 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: matt1234

I sing in 11 languages, including Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Italian, German, and Yiddish. I can recite many passages of the Bible from memory in Hebrew. But I refuse to even listen to the bismallah because I have such a knack for languages that it might go into my mind and then I will NEVER be able to get rid of it.

Most people, though, have to consciously study a sentence in a foreign language in order for it to flow fluidly from the tongue.

That goes for the “lyin’ king” as well when he flawlessly recited “the sweetest sound on earth”.

(Bleaaacchhh!!!!!)


42 posted on 06/09/2014 10:21:21 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: AppyPappy
Did I hear right that he offered to switch places with his son?

It is risky second-guessing what steps a father will take in order to save his son from danger.

It would be a lot clearer if now that the son has reportedly confirmed he was tortured, dad would roundly and convincingly condemn islam.

43 posted on 06/09/2014 10:21:34 AM PDT by frog in a pot (The 2dA didn't grant a right - it preserved an existing right & was required to obtain ratification.)
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To: matt1234

Probably shaved his beard so he appears more credible. Hard for Americans to believe a guy that looks like Taliban.


44 posted on 06/09/2014 10:22:39 AM PDT by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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To: SMARTY

People were staring at Bowe Bergdahl’s ridiculous beard and electric blue tie, but did anybody else notice how Obama couldn’t keep his hands off Mrs. Bergdahl?


45 posted on 06/09/2014 10:23:10 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
This is a ruse by the government..

Obviously.

Obama rescued this guy and traded real bad terrorist for him.

Does anything think they'll take the chance of him admitting he betrayed his military oath and the country after being rescued by the President? Of course not.

They'll brain wash him with every threat imaginable.

They're not going to cut him loose until everyone has memorized the same script.

Bet the rent they telling this guy if he don't go along and stick to the scrip, he and his parents who've already received death threats, will be killed by right wing radical Americans. With more threats of military prosecution.

46 posted on 06/09/2014 10:25:13 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: clintonh8r; Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
I don't have sympathy for either Bergdahl, they both made their choices, but 0bama focused all the attention them to divert scrutiny from his Tollybon Five “trade.” Had 0bama kept it low key Bowe Bergdahl would be in big trouble but there wouldn’t be anywhere near the public attention on him or his father. 0bama has destroyed the Bergdahl family and he did it on purpose.

Like I said, I don't have sympathy for the Bergdahls but they are in the spotlight because 0bama put them there to deflect attention from his treasonous acts and I'm not going to let that distraction work. Next time you see a pic of 0bama hugging it up with Bergdahl's parents remember that he was knowingly throwing them to the wolves. That's how freaking cold and sociopathic he is.

47 posted on 06/09/2014 10:28:26 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Doesn’t torture do a lot of damage psychologically, especially in the area of emotions, since throughout the imprisonment a POW has to suppress his normal response to torture in order to maintain his sanity. Wasn’t this also a problem with Vietnam and Korean POW’s?


48 posted on 06/09/2014 10:30:16 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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To: AppyPappy

That could never happen. If Bowe ever sets foot in the continental US, he might screw up and start telling what really happened when he walked away from his unit in Afghanistan.


49 posted on 06/09/2014 10:35:06 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Genoa
but the Pashto and Arabic incantation at the White House?

More startling (or revealing) than the statement was the little smile that Obama flashed when Bergdahl said it.

Was he pleased that Bergdahl had fulfilled one of the requirements set down by the Taliban for his son's release? Or was it more personal than that?

50 posted on 06/09/2014 10:38:05 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Haiku Guy

I would have been livid. How dare you put your hands on me.


51 posted on 06/09/2014 10:40:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
the little smile that Obama flashed

Dreams of my father....the most beautiful sound in the world.

52 posted on 06/09/2014 10:40:34 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Obama didn’t forget his first language either.


53 posted on 06/09/2014 10:40:48 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: TigersEye

I agree with your assessment of 0bama (in fact, it may be a little generous), but not your assessment of his motives. By bringing the Bergdahls into the public spotlight he also illuminated the 5 terrorist trade bait at the same time. One goes with the other. No talk about Bergdahl, no talk about the released terrorists. In that sense he blew it. But the fact is that he just doesn’t care.


54 posted on 06/09/2014 10:42:54 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Can Juan Williams possibly be that stupid?)
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To: matt1234
He should have shaved it before he got to Washington. His son was in Germany by that time.

He was talking to the Taliban and there were probably a lot of code words in his little speech.

55 posted on 06/09/2014 10:43:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: wideawake
"If I were Bergdahl's lawyer I would advise him to not say anything to anyone."

But of course!

I'd bet dollars to donuts that there is a long line of those bottom-feeders lined up to represent him pro-bono for the expected notoriety it will bring them.

56 posted on 06/09/2014 10:44:33 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: clintonh8r

I think the release (”trade”) of the five most dangerous terrorists in Gitmo would have made waves no matter how low key the announcement was. I’m pretty sure that was controversial enough to get attention.


57 posted on 06/09/2014 10:46:44 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I suspect it’s a scam to give the appearance of a breakdown of family relationship, and/or, to maybe give the sham appearance of mental illness on the deserter’s part. Am I overly suspicious?


58 posted on 06/09/2014 10:47:35 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and in politic)
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To: Buffalo Head

Not too many ambulance chasers are up to snuff on the UCMJ - but Nidal Hassan did find an extremely slimy expert.


59 posted on 06/09/2014 10:47:46 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Madam Theophilus

Was Bowe tortured? I do not know...

What I do know is that a relatively healthy young man walked to the awaiting helicopter. If the torture had been unrelenting and ongoing, Bowe would have looked gaunt/frail at the handover. He would not have walked upright without any hint of injury.

Caught a YouTube video of the prisoner handover at the end of the Vietnam war. The one where John MCCain is returned.

Every man was at least 20lbs underweight. It was obvious that none of them would be running a marathon anytime soon.

Those men had been tortured. That is what the effects of torture looks like.

Bowe needs to work on his limp a bit more...


60 posted on 06/09/2014 10:51:22 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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