Posted on 06/09/2014 2:27:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: The news media is trying to make this -- and has been trying to make this -- all about Bergdahl and Bergdahl's parents and so forth. That's a distraction. It was never about Bergdahl. He's the excuse. The thing that is noteworthy here is Obama has always wanted to close Guantanamo Bay.
He's promised to shut down Gitmo; the left is irritated at him. It's cost him some money, in fact, in donations, that Gitmo is still open. To do that, to close Gitmo, he's got to get rid of the remaining terrorists somehow. And he's been itching to find an excuse to do so, some way to make it seem like it's something else besides letting these terrorists go free.
So he does it in the form of a prisoner swap, and he thinks he's gonna get heralded and get credited and thought of as a great guy. "We're gonna get back an American soldier!" This man has never worn a uniform; he disdains people who do. He doesn't understand the culture. Susan Rice is as tone deaf now as she was during Benghazi. These people are embarrassing. They literally are embarrassing.
They have no idea about military culture, military tradition. And if indeed they were blindsided by this and if they even care about being blindsided, that was why. But the point here is to empty Guantanamo. When you empty Guantanamo... Everything has consequences. When you empty Guantanamo, you are replenishing the enemy in a war on terror that is still underway.
These people might want you to think they vanquished Al-Qaeda because they got bin Laden. They might want you to think the War on Terror is over and we moved on to other things, but it isn't. It's still underway, and the Taliban reaction to this is proof positive. So Obama has wanted an excuse, some way to make it look like something else, something other than letting the terrorists run free from Guantanamo.
Now, nobody in the Drive-Bys seems to remember that Obama tried to pull off this swap back in March of 2012. Back then... This may have been reported. If this is being redundant, I'm sorry. He even briefed some in Congress about it, and that's the only reason we ever heard about it, because Dianne Feinstein leaked the story to Foreign Policy magazine, and there was outrage, at least from some in the conservative media.
So Obama had to drop the plan. He wanted to do this two years ago. Now you know why he didn't notify Congress this time around, even though he's required to do so by law. He didn't do so because, A, he loves snubbing them and he knows they're not gonna do anything about it. But he didn't want to have his plans dashed again this time. He is weaker than he was two years ago.
So he tries to do this, goes through channels, and Congress shuts him down. He can't have that, so he just does it and knows full well that nothing is going to happen to him. 
Now, he has to lie about that, too. First he claims that the Taliban would kill Bergdahl if this whole thing had been leaked. When that was laughed at, they claimed that Bergdahl was at death's door, and that's why we had to do that.
We know that that's not the case. But, again, ladies and gentlemen, this was never about Bowe Bergdahl, never about Bergdahl's parents. Obama wants to close Club Gitmo. It's one of his biggest campaign promises. But there's something else. He also wants to negotiate with the Taliban. And by "negotiate," he wants to give them power in the Afghan government. This is called appeasement. This is called Citizen of the World kind of stuff.
This is called the new United States, where we bring our enemies in and acknowledge them and respect them. So he wants the Taliban to have power in the Afghan government. The Taliban had refused to negotiate seriously until Obama released their top five lieutenants. So Obama's been chomping at the bit to let 'em loose ever since March of 2012, maybe even before that. Bergdahl was the convenient excuse, and that's why all of this happened. Two things are the take-away: Closing Club Gitmo and, by virtue of that (I cannot emphasize this too much), restocking the enemy with their frontline people.
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America is being invaded and the Republican Establishment just yawns.
Impeach Obama as a clear and present danger to the U.S.
This was my theory as well. Once Obama has the five baddest terrorists out of gitmo it makes it easier to release the rest. Politics - Obama pandering to his base.
At what point does all the government lawlessness bring about public response?
your question contains the answer.
this govt and congress should have already been abolished
I wish I could say very soon.
The Democrats approve.
The MSM Palace Guards approve.
The rest of the public are not engaged at all.
Republican leadership refuses to confront Obama.
The rest of America is watching a cross-dressing pervert at the Tony Awards in prime time.
Barry is lawless, because he is allowed to be.
Rush gets it right. Berghdal is a distraction. Look at what the big guy is doing. Sending angry bearded savages back to a place where they can join other angry bearded savages and take up arms against us.
+100%
There is a lesson there about "catch and release" with terrorists. I hope our military will figure out the obvious alternative (in their limited remaining operations under the terrorist-lover).
I called John Cornyn’s office today to give them an earful on this illegal dump. The staffer stammered out some bs talking points. Made me so mad. We need to start a phone campaign and fill their email and faxes and phones. This usually seems to get the attention of the people that supposedly represent us.
Hussein has committed treason in my opinion. How is releasing these thugs going to help him protect the “children” he claims he is in charge of? I think he had to release them come hell or high water cause he was being blackmailed by someone about to expose something about his skinny a@#.
It the Taliban (Sunni) can kidnap or conscript young Shiites in Afghanistan and sell them into the rebel fight in Syria like cattle than certainly the Qatari’s will pay (as will we).
Two birds with one stone for the Taliban. Why kill off Shiites when you can marshal and/or sell them into Syrian rebel conscription.
Imagine the irony taking a clueless Shiite peasant in Afghanistan and selling him into martyrdom to unwittingly to kill Alewites (Shiite sect) and Shiites in the Syrian regular army.
That’s why they went to Qatar and why Obama (Sunni
Muslim) blessed the plan.
Bergdahl is NOT a distraction. Obama traded 4 terrorists for a deserter, and that’s enough to get a lot of fence sitters riled-up. (Some of my own fence-sitting family members are hopping mad about this.) We can still raise all of the arguments that Rush wants to raise. Where did we get the idea that conservatives should not raise more than one good issue at once?
That is getting trite. Step up Rush. Call for impeachment. Put it ALL in a package tagged Articles of Impeachment.
Thank you. It seems to be a device whereby the user tries to self certify his very own brilliant insight to the exclusion of all others. It's wearing me out.
under this current government coupled with the complacency of the people, it is like this entire country is on death row just waiting for its final day to arrive.
Where did we get the idea that conservatives should not raise more than one good issue at once?
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Thank you. It seems to be a device whereby the user tries to self certify his very own brilliant insight to the exclusion of all others. It’s wearing me out.
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Not only that, it cripples us by ignoring the fact that some people are better at raising certain arguments than others and will be silent and inactive if their views are excluded.
One day Obama will pay for his sin. The LORD will judge him at the Great White Throne. He will drop to his knees and declare Jesus Christ is LORD of ALL!!! He will then be sent away as Christ will tell him “away, for I never knew you!” Obama’s homosexual love fest will send him to the Lake of Fire.
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