Posted on 06/03/2014 9:59:36 AM PDT by chessplayer
I assume this has been reported before but if, like me, you’re coming to the story only recently, it’s big news. Apparently, the military had — and, maybe, has — hard evidence from the man himself that he went AWOL deliberately.
Which would be worse: If Obama didn’t know about the note before making the swap, or if he did know and went ahead with it anyway?
Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life. He slipped off the remote military outpost in Paktika Province on the border with Pakistan and took with him a soft backpack, water, knives, a notebook and writing materials, but left behind his body armor and weapons — startling, given the hostile environment around his outpost…
Sergeant Bergdahl slipped away from his outpost, the former senior officer said, possibly on foot but more likely hiding in a contractor’s vehicle. “He didn’t walk out the gate through a checkpoint, and there was no evidence he breached the perimeter wire and left that way,” the ex-officer said…
Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said that there was a larger matter at play: The American military does not leave soldiers behind. “When you’re in the Navy, and you go overboard, it doesn’t matter if you were pushed, fell or jumped,” he said. “We’re going to turn the ship around and pick you up.”
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The Navy doesn't have to trade 5 terrorists for someone who jumped into the water.
Its the arrogance of a dictator exploiting the weakness of the congress.
This is starting to look like it is going to backfire on Obama for real... someone slap me out of it.
He JUST read about this in the paper today!
He didn’t go AWOL. He deserted. There’s a difference.
I saw, on FOX NEWS last night, that Bird Dog actually made a phone call to “someone”, 2 days after his desertion, that he was deserting. This was reported by one of Fox’s ex-military “experts”.
I’m not sure of the veracity of this as I don’t know “who” he called, or even if cell phones are auxiliary equipment in the military.
I’m sure 0bama found out by hearing it on the news. He’s outraged and will focus like a laser beam on the issue. Period.
No questions tho b/c ongoing investigation.
He JUST read about this in the paper today!
That is always his fallback excuse.
This is getting bad. Obama knew all of this and he released some of the bloodiest-handed terrorists in history??
Why is he not under arrest?
lol
AWOL or desertion?
Obama knew what he was doing..freeing those terrorist scum were just part of the plan..and seeing Bergdahl’s Muslim daddy praising Allah in the Rose Garden and Obama grinning from ear to ear was all I had to see
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