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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Deeply Skeptical Of Taliban Prisoner Swap
The Daily Caller ^ | 6-2-2014 | Brendan Bordelon

Posted on 06/02/2014 5:31:30 PM PDT by servo1969

MSBNC host Chris Matthews became the first on his network to express the slightest bit of skepticism over the Obama administration’s deal to trade Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantanamo Bay, with Matthews repeatedly questioning the wisdom of trading an “AWOL” and possibly treasonous soldier for terrorist mass murderers.

Matthews opened his program Monday with a deeply suspicious look into Bergdahl’s statements and actions before he went inexplicably missing from his post in the summer of 2009.

In particular, the MSNBC host highlighted portions of a piece by late Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, which revealed that Bergdahl repeatedly disparaged the U.S. military, said he was “ashamed to be an American” and talked of simply “walk[ing] off into the mountains of Pakistan.”

He also singled out as “cryptic” a statement by Bergdahl’s father claiming he was “proud of how much you wanted to help the Afghan people, and what [Bergdahl] was willing to do to go to that length.”

“Do you have any idea what he meant there?” Matthews asked The Daily Beast’s Kim Dozier. “Did he mean sort of leaving his post, leaving his rifle and uniform behind, heading off in the direction of Pakistan, being picked up by the Taliban? What did he mean ‘helping the Afghan people’ and that process? I don’t quite get that.”

“Is that the Afghan people they mean?” Matthews continued, questioning whether Bergdahl was in fact moving to join or work with the Taliban when he was captured.

Dozier let that question hang, but spoke forcefully for the prisoner swap. “In terms of why you rescue him, he was a U.S. soldier in uniform –”

“No he wasn’t in uniform, he left the uniform behind,” Matthews interrupted.

“He was a serving U.S. soldier –” Dozier tried again.

“But he left his post and he said — this is what I don’t understand,” Matthews continued. “Was he AWOL? And if not, why not? Why didn’t they declare him AWOL?”

Matthews also expressed profound skepticism over the idea that this trade might be a prelude to a peace deal with the Taliban, after Dozier said this could “possibly kick off reconciliation talks” with the Taliban.

“I just wonder what that could possibly — women have to now be covered up, their faces have to be covered up, no more movies over there, they blow up buddhas again,” he said, wondering what would happen if the Taliban gets power. “Are we going back to crazy Taliban behavior? . . . What kind of deal are we striking with these people?”

Liberal columnist and Marine Corps veteran Goldie Taylor was also grilled by Matthews. “Does this make sense?” he asked.

“I think it makes sense to me, because you know, in my mind, as a former Marine, we leave no man behind. We don’t qualify that –”

“But didn’t he leave his unit behind?” Matthews countered. “He left his uniform behind, he left his rifle behind and he told people if he didn’t like the mission he was headed to Pakistan. What was he doing?”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: awol; bergdahl; gitmo; msnbc; obama; scandals
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To: Hotlanta Mike

These parents are people the Marxists are unprepared to deal with.Dems can’t attack them,and I don’t think they’re going to go away anytime soon.All the parents are in a unique position to grind Obama’s ass into the ground.


21 posted on 06/02/2014 5:52:34 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: servo1969

Blind squirrel...acorn...


22 posted on 06/02/2014 5:52:34 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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23 posted on 06/02/2014 5:54:14 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: laweeks

LOL


24 posted on 06/02/2014 5:54:47 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Gotcha... “The Thrill is Gone”!


25 posted on 06/02/2014 5:55:46 PM PDT by capt. norm
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To: kingattax

and blown KISS.....


26 posted on 06/02/2014 5:56:58 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Taliban Gunmen Seize Indian Head of Charity Organization in Herat
27 posted on 06/02/2014 5:59:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: onyx; KC_Lion
B. B. King - The Thrill Is Gone
28 posted on 06/02/2014 6:01:02 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: cripplecreek

LUCILLE!!


29 posted on 06/02/2014 6:02:32 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: C210N; MeshugeMikey

obozo is a disgusting queer. more and more people are becoming convinced of the truth of that.


30 posted on 06/02/2014 6:04:23 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: laweeks

does obozocare cover a “tingleostomy” ?


31 posted on 06/02/2014 6:07:16 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: servo1969
Never mind the deserter.

What about these scumbags the marxist in chief released?

These 5 were named by the Taliban as the ones they wanted out of GB.

This is like releasing Hess, Goering, Borrman, Streicher and Jodl instead of trying them at Nuremberg.


32 posted on 06/02/2014 6:08:07 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: servo1969

When a soldier who says he hates America mails his clothes and books to his parents and then leaves his base with nothing but a canteen of water and a flashlight, even Chris Matthews knows he is a deserter. But Obama and Susan Rice, the world’s stupidest woman, still call him “honorable” and a hero.
Disgusting.


33 posted on 06/02/2014 6:08:27 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: TBall

By Hillary or her people? This could divert attention from Benghazi and onto something that could not be linked to her.


34 posted on 06/02/2014 6:10:34 PM PDT by kalee
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To: txrefugee

35 posted on 06/02/2014 6:11:10 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: RedMDer

WOO-HOO!

37 posted on 06/02/2014 6:14:14 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: txrefugee
Rice is an insane liar and member of the political class from Washington DC

Rice was born in Washington, D.C.,[5] to Emmett J. Rice (1919–2011), Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve System;[5] and education policy scholar Lois (née Dickson) Fitt, currently at the Brookings Institution.[6] Her maternal grandparents were Jamaican.[7] Her parents divorced during her youth.[citation needed] She is not related to former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Rice was a three-sport athlete, student council president, and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., a private girls' day school.[8] She played point guard in basketball and directed the offense, acquiring the nickname Spo, short for "Sportin’".[8]

38 posted on 06/02/2014 6:15:12 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: NonValueAdded

The tingle done got corrected?


39 posted on 06/02/2014 6:17:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: onyx

40 posted on 06/02/2014 6:19:20 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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