Posted on 06/07/2014 6:03:45 AM PDT by kristinn
Four months ago, Sen. John McCain said he would support the exchange of five hard-core Taliban leaders for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
"I would support ways of bringing him home," he told CNN, "and if exchange was one of them I think that would be something I think we should seriously consider."
But the instant the Obama administration actually made that trade, McCain, as he has so often in the past...
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Though we criticized the administration for ignoring the law in not informing Congress of the transfer of the Taliban detainees 30 days in advance, leave it to Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and other hyperventilators to claim that continued release of prisoners from Guantánamo without prior notice is now considered an impeachable offense, a ludicrous leap.
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This duck-and-cover response is the result of the outrageous demonization of Bergdahl in the absence of actual facts. Republican operatives have arranged for soldiers in his unit to tell reporters that he was a deserter who cost the lives of several soldiers searching for him. In fact, a review of casualty reports by Charlie Savage and Andrew Lehren of The New York Times showed there is no clear link between any military deaths and the search.
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And a classified military report shows that Bergdahl had walked away from assigned areas at least twice before and had returned, according to a report in The New York Times on Thursday. It describes him as a free-spirited young man who asked many questions but gave no indication of being a deserter, let alone the turncoat that Obama’s opponents are now trying to create.
If anything, the report suggests that the army unit’s lack of security and discipline was as much to blame for the disappearance, given the sergeant’s history.
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big diffence between this:
..... would support the exchange of five hard- Taliban leaders for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
and this:
“I would support ways of bringing him home,” he told CNN, “and if exchange was one of them I think that would be something I think we should seriously consider.”
“Republican operatives have arranged for soldiers in his unit to tell reporters that he was a deserter...”
It was the Army's responsibility to guard Bergdahl and that traitor him from deserting? Interesting perspective on the military from someone whose closest approach to a uniform was probably walking past his doorman without tipping.
Here we fo. The NYT doing its feminine tatle tale round of denunciations.
It is obvious Obama is peddling Narco Taleban Opium and then using that “manufactured want” against us to control people, but, hey, these troops made Bergdhal do it and they had a responsability to baby sit him.
Which is the very kind of little btch snitch behavior encouraging the like of Bergdhal or Alinsky wanted.
I freaking hate communists and their inherent vile and stupid mindset.
How about the outrageous claim of "honor and distinction" in the absence of actual facts...
those walk offs are totally different. the last time he said he hated America, sent everything home to his parents and left his gun and military duds behind.
... because we all know that Republican "operatives" have sooooo much power over psychopaths...
Like. i always said as a soldier, it is ridculous to complain about the army when in the army since each of us soldier make up the army and its “services”. To be a better soldier and ask how to be a better soldier is the only way to make a good army. This is such stupid thinking.
But I do not put it past traitors and Xanax dispensing psychiatrists in the military to manufacture such whiney people and encouraging them, because these drugs do have the benefit of turning the psychiatrist into some kind of god and your less peivileged buddies as some kind of a$$ holes.
... enter the NYT or CNN-Jazeera moslem tatletale little btch arab journalist... on the FOB itself of all things.
Yes it seems he seems to have just come and go when he wanted to...its called AWOL..thats not the action of an honorable soldier..
Plus when he went did he leave his gun and safety equipment behind or was that last time something else???..was he leaving for good ???...were the other times just practice runs ???
the army unit’s lack of security and discipline
Strange they should point that out...it might well be that the lack of discipline that BOWeeWee had allowed him to go over to the enemy with ease...
He’s trying to close Gitmo..see my last post
The New York Times is America’s most heinous enemy. No matter what bad stuff happens to them, it will never be enough.
1. Bergdahl had walked away before:
a. Does not justify desertion.
b. Walked away this time and stayed away...clear desertion
c. Each of the previous times, he had also been wrong AND had threated the security of his fellow soldiers.
d. This time he sent all his possessions home prior to ‘walking away’.
2. Bergdahl attempted to escape:
a. Bergdahl was not taken prisoner. He SOUGHT the Taliban.
b. Prior to seeking the Taliban, Bergdahl prepared for desertion by sending his possessions home. That makes his desertion premeditated.
c. Bergdahl might have simply disliked the group that had him and wanted to be associated with a different jihadist group. He might not have been trying to get back to US forces.
d. Bergdahl eventually took up arms and was trusted with arms and considered himself a jihadist.
e. Bergdahl wrote of his disdain and detestation toward America and his fellow soldiers.
f. His fellow soldiers ALL say he willingly deserted.
"I would support ways of bringing him home," he told CNN, "and if exchange was one of them I think that would be something I think we should seriously consider."
The NYT Editorial board (anonymously spewed dogma) are entitled to their opinion, but they are not entitled to a perverted interpretation.
When I was in school, "support" was a very different thing from "seriously consider".
Honestly, it's like they're not even trying to make everything jibe anymore. Just wipe their behinds like a baboon, grab some feces and sling it somewhere to see if it sticks. They really are a pretentious and ill equipped group of ideologues.
McCain: “I would support ways of bringing him home,” he told CNN, “and if exchange was one of them I think that would be something I think we should seriously consider.”
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He only said they might think about it ...he never said to do it...
and McCain certainly never said to let dangerous Islamic terrorists go and so many...
There are low level prisoners in Gitmo too...
Plus its not the only place we hold Islamic prisoners..
Any order to commit a crime is unlawful.
Disobeying a lawful order can get you jailed or even executed.
Our military is finding itself in an ever more complicated quagmire.
This fuy is a tattle tale little girl, denuncing daddy for playing with his gun to mom because he wont give her some candy.
THIS ALL ME ME ME OBAMA RIGHT THERE.
WE ARE NOT GIVING HIS ISLAM FAG CANDY OF UNCONDITIONAL ADORATION SO HE WILL KEEP FCKING WITH THE COUNTRY AND COMMUNIST JOURNALISTS WILL KEEP THE TUNE.
America needs to get its head out of its arse and really ask what it wants, because this is not heading in the right direction for anyone, because liberals too stand to be denounced for their own largess.
Of course, McCain was going to close GITMO on Day 1 of his presidency and move the terrorists to Leavenworth — where liberal FED judges could eventually release them.
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It does open up the question:
When the Afghan/Iraq Wars ended, what did the FED/politicians/military plan to do with those Islamists still being detained at GITMO and elsewhere?
It would seem that there would be only 3 options: execute, imprison for live, release.
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