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U.S. Official: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Has Declined to Speak to His Family
WSJ ^ | June 8, 2014 | By JULIAN E. BARNES

Posted on 06/08/2014 11:15:42 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has declined to speak to his family after five years in harsh captivity that included being held in a cage after one attempted escape, according to a U.S. official familiar with the Army soldier's recovery.

Doctors treating Sgt. Bergdahl at a U.S. military hospital in Germany are moving slowly because of the swirling controversy over the soldier's release, the U.S. official said.

While he spent five years in captivity after being captured by Afghan insurgents in 2009, Sgt. Bergdahl doesn't yet want to talk to his family on the phone, the official said. Details of Sgt. Bergdahl's captivity were earlier reported over the weekend by the New York Times. NYT -0.13%

Sgt. Bergdahl has likely been shielded from most of the backlash his release has generated in the U.S. Some former platoon soldiers have accused him of deserting his post, and lawmakers from both parties have questioned the decision to trade America's lone prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five Taliban officials held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bergdahl; bergdahlhealth; bergdahlnarrative; bergdahlparents; bergdahltaliban; witnesstampering
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To: Vendome
goat boy photo: goat boy ddsnl.jpg Goat Boy, Goat Dad. allahu fubar.
61 posted on 06/08/2014 12:17:07 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: crusadersoldier
Somehow I think the aspiring ballet dancer left his husband behind.

Rahm?


62 posted on 06/08/2014 12:17:36 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: FR_addict
His father is the one I despise. I wish he could be tried for being a traitor. Obama too for that Rose Garden “in your face” conference.

His father's tweet:
Robert Bergdahl
@bobbergdahl
@ABalkhi I am still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners. God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, ameen!

63 posted on 06/08/2014 12:18:41 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Sacajaweau

Are we sure his “parents” aren’t just actors? They don’t seem like parents in their emotions. They seem phony.


64 posted on 06/08/2014 12:19:14 PM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

First he was treated well playing soccer and eating foods he liked to now abused,tortured and in a cage.

Guess Obama team didn’t think he was getting enough sympathy .


65 posted on 06/08/2014 12:20:46 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
He’s being programmed and told what to say would be my guess.

Or deprogrammed - or reprogrammed...

66 posted on 06/08/2014 12:21:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.projectveritas.com/home/)
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To: JoanneSD

Forgot English!!!

Is that what they are saying??


67 posted on 06/08/2014 12:22:36 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: azishot

“And where are his *loving* parents?”

They are “loving” it! They’re sure to save their son from prosecution and a jail sentence because that’s saving the regime from a more disastrous scandal and not “another phony” one when the opposition to 0b0z0’s deeds is joined by big commie dems.


68 posted on 06/08/2014 12:22:45 PM PDT by melancholy
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To: autumnraine

“Forgot English!!!
Is that what they are saying??”

That’s what his father said. No one else.


69 posted on 06/08/2014 12:23:40 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: FR_addict

The Taliban killed more children than anyone!


70 posted on 06/08/2014 12:24:49 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Delta Dawn

The whole thing might have been orchestrated, planned and acted out from the beginning as an excuse to get these top ranking Taliban leaders released. Is any of it real?


71 posted on 06/08/2014 12:25:21 PM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: Bellflower
Are we sure his “parents” aren’t just actors? They don’t seem like parents in their emotions. They seem phony.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. Straight out of Central Casting.

72 posted on 06/08/2014 12:25:57 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Delta Dawn

wherever he goes I don’t think hes long for this world...

his Afghan “friends” will put him down...


73 posted on 06/08/2014 12:27:23 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: GOPJ
Or deprogrammed - or reprogrammed...

Maybe Bowe will come out of the hospital with some interesting head scars similar to those of you-know-who...


74 posted on 06/08/2014 12:29:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java

don’t Swan Lake me, Bro...


75 posted on 06/08/2014 12:29:55 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

He is expendable. He has served his purpose.


76 posted on 06/08/2014 12:30:33 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: JoanneSD

That whole “forgot his English” thing smells to high heavens. After speaking English for 20-plus years, there’s no way in hell that he would have forgotten it in five.


77 posted on 06/08/2014 12:31:32 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Delta Dawn

exactly...


78 posted on 06/08/2014 12:31:45 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Jet Jaguar

Sgt. Bergdahl doesn’t yet want to talk to his family on the phone, the official said................................................. Phone calls can be tapped, and recordings made by the “right” people. Conspiracy wise, he’s being prepped, guarantee there is a team of lawyers already there pro bono and under presidential orders. Deciding how to make a dead fish come back alive smelling like a rose. (LOL, I just remembered a Carlie Chanism; “Even rose in fish market, smell like fish.”)


79 posted on 06/08/2014 12:31:51 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 an election or a coronation of a Queen? I'm sure we'll be told to eat cake.)
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To: Bob

I bet his Taliban buddies spoke English to him...


80 posted on 06/08/2014 12:32:30 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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