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Taliban offers to swap US soldier for Gitmo prisoners
Hotair ^ | 06/20/2013 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 06/20/2013 8:01:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t there an Air Force pilot missing and presumed a POW?


21 posted on 06/20/2013 8:40:24 AM PDT by airborne (MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
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To: Ronald_Magnus

I just did a search and yeah, he’s the guy. I say let him rot.

“Bowe Bergdahl, U.S. soldier held by Taliban, was “ashamed to be American,” emails show”

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57449377/bowe-bergdahl-u-s-soldier-held-by-taliban-was-ashamed-to-be-american-emails-show/


22 posted on 06/20/2013 8:45:12 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: airborne

Perfect time to wipe out the Taliban.

Inoculate one of them with virus, make the trade then watch as the Taliban start becoming ill. With any luck, they go for treatment in Pakistan.

Always was fascinated with bio-chemical warfare. We probably have some cool bugs in Atlanta.


23 posted on 06/20/2013 8:47:39 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Send all Gitmo (or less) prisoners back after providing them with free transgender operations.
See how they like what they have been preaching.


24 posted on 06/20/2013 8:54:15 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Excellent idea, but 0bama isn’t likely to harm his Muslim donors.


25 posted on 06/20/2013 9:00:26 AM PDT by airborne (MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope people realize that if we give into this, the enemy will be kidnapping a lot more of our soldiers.


26 posted on 06/20/2013 9:17:22 AM PDT by Stephanie32
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To: Stephanie32

Why don’t they kidnap more of our soldiers NOW?


27 posted on 06/20/2013 9:18:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s put a face and a name on the Taliban POW. While the Taliban offer is bad; there are family who have been earnestly contending for his release for four years.

http://supportbowe.org/


28 posted on 06/20/2013 9:26:33 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus
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To: SeekAndFind
Then: "I want the American people to understand," he (Obama) announced in March 2009. "We have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan." He ordered another 21,000 troops to Kabul, the largest increase since the war began in 2001. Taking the advice of both the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he also fired Gen. David McKiernan – then the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan – and replaced him with a man he didn't know and had met only briefly: Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

Now: The Afghan Taliban say they are ready to hand over a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

McChrystal was abused by a reporter telling lies and with the Obama KneeJerk, fired. Seems the Taliban has gained the upper hand since that dumb decision to fire a brilliant soldier for personal reasons.

29 posted on 06/20/2013 9:29:50 AM PDT by yoe
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To: SeekAndFind

wait.... how the hell can they be holding an american prisoner for 4 years and this NOT BE DAILY NEWS 24/7 AS IT WOULD BE FOR BUSH?!?!?!?!


30 posted on 06/20/2013 9:36:37 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: Ronald_Magnus

Then we should agree to release a couple of Gitmo prisoners who are “Ashamed to be Taliban.”


31 posted on 06/20/2013 9:48:14 AM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: SeekAndFind

Implant GPS tracking transmitters in their arms and legs, deep enough that they can’t be dug out with a pocket knife, and then make the switch. Then let the unmanned aerial drones do the rest.


32 posted on 06/20/2013 9:48:58 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: SeekAndFind

Bomb Gitmo!


33 posted on 06/20/2013 9:50:42 AM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian Black Man!)
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To: SeekAndFind

But this simply cannot be. We were told that the war on terror is finished!


34 posted on 06/20/2013 10:20:36 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are testing us and the level of weakness of this president.


35 posted on 06/20/2013 10:23:07 AM PDT by Stephanie32
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To: The_Reader_David
Purposely forgetting history is one of the biggest problems with the younger (publicly educated) generations nowdays. If they did study, they'd see the slippery slide to slavery there are on and facilitating by endorsing and supporting this regime...

There's Ignorance and there's Stupidity. One is that you simply don't know, and can be corrected by researching with an open mind. The other is that you found the truth and now do know what's going one, and yet still ignore the facts and consequences. When I see some of the clips on cable news of these "Low-Information" voters who nonchalantly dismiss the warnings out-of-hand, I feel sorry for them (somewhat), because they are making their own beds and will have to lay in them eventually.

The unfortunate part is that they won't realize how bad it will be until they are standing in a mass grave with many bodies at their feet with a gunman behind/above them, preparing to end their ignorant life. With our current enemies, it can be beheaded or have your throat slit.

I have already told my wife and kids that I will not go quietly into the darkness...

36 posted on 06/20/2013 10:53:36 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
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