Hagel: U.S. didn’t negotiate with terrorists in securing Bergdahl’s release

The Washington Times ^ | June 1, 2014 | David Sherfinski

[skeeter]

Depends on what the definition of ‘terrorist’ is.

[VanDeKoik]

So these guys let him go out of the goodness of their widdle hearts?

[TADSLOS]

LIAR.

[a fool in paradise]

They must not have been card carrying members of a registered terrorist organization.

[jersey117]

Hagel is a useful idiot. Another reputation which will go down the tubes when all is said and done with this administration.

[Eddie01]

Guess the timing of the simultaneous releases on both sides was just a coincidence then... I buy it. /s

[dfwgator]

Hagel is a useful idiot.

Actually, he's pretty useless.

[smoothsailing]

“We didn’t negotiate with terrorists,” Mr. Hagel said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I said and explained before, Sergeant Bergdahl is a prisoner of war. That’s a normal process in getting your prisoners back.”

Hagel, you friggin moron. We are at war with the terrorists, you released five of them. What did you get in return? Bergdahl.

You're right about one thing, this was no negotiation. It was a capitulation, you might as well have surrendered.

[Logical me]

How about maybe listening to what some of us are saying. America is now controlled by the communists Democrats with King Obama at the leader. King Obama is a communists black Muslim. Nothing now or within the next few years can stop the conversion to a dictatorship. Lots of talk and hearings but they will do nothing. Have they worked so far?

[tumblindice]

`US didn't negotiate blah blah blah' Sumpin' smells lak da Dixie Chicks alla da sudden!

[moovova]

Five Taliban fighters swapped for one lame-azz US traitor?

Yea...I wouldn’t classify that as negotiating either.

[Starstruck]

Next we will trade another group of terrorists for magic beans. Congress will not be informed because the magic’s best by date is just about up.

[TigersEye]

Another traitor!

[rollo tomasi]

"Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the U.S. did not negotiate..."

There were negotiations or just a flat out uneven prisoner exchange by a "deserter". Either way Obama and his shoeshine boy Hagel are incompetent and not to be trusted.

The only hope in this fiasco is if these 5 Taliban prisoners were tagged (I highly doubt it with the feckless leaders we ultimately vote for) but I think the 5 would be relegated to morale boosting "agitprop" anyway and not allowed "in the inner circle" anymore.

[zerosix]

Riiiiiight and the sun doesn’t rise in the East and you know the rest......

[Timber Rattler]

What a liar. Just wait until it is confirmed very soon that Bergdahl deserted and turned-coat.

[bunster]

On the timing. I betcha it was supposed to happen last Tues or Wed but O said No — wait until after I deliver my speech at West Point.

[Captain Compassion]

The Taliban aren’t on the government list so they ain’t terrorists. You must ignore their terrorism don’t you know.

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[jazusamo]

It was a capitulation, you might as well have surrendered.

Yep, plain and simple but he and 0bama must be "mad as hell" because getting him back "was a normal process." BS

And the more that's being posted the more it looks like Bergdahl is a deserter. In this article they admit he was captured under unknown circumstances but some of the soldiers that were there with him called him a deserter.

[darkwing104]

“We didn’t negotiate with terrorists,”

Hagel has betrayed the trust of John McCain, he can't be trusted by anyone.