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Captured US soldier's e-mails suggest he deserted in Afghanistan "I am ashamed to even be American"
NY Post ^ | June 8, 2012

Posted on 06/08/2012 7:47:54 AM PDT by dead

HAILEY, Idaho -- E-mails from a US soldier, sent before he was captured by the Taliban in 2009, suggest he was disillusioned with the military and considering deserting.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 26, told his parents in e-mails obtained by Rolling Stone magazine that he was disgusted with the US Army and ashamed to be American.

In one, which was not verified, he wrote, "I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live... I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American."

Bergdahl, then a private first class, went missing on June 30, 2009, sparking a manhunt that saw other military missions canceled or diverted.

According to the magazine, his e-mails to his family back home in Idaho began to take on a more somber tone when one of his close friends was killed in Afghanistan.

Initially military officials thought he was captured by the Taliban after walking away from his outpost near the Pakistani border....

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; bobbergdahl; bowebergdahl; gitmo; taliban
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To: dead

This re-posting might be of some interest now.


41 posted on 05/31/2014 9:51:21 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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Yes, it's interesting. I'm guessing that he had some stupid ideas and it wound up costing him five years of his life. Hopefully, he appreciates the US now.

Although, just to be sure, the FBI and CIA should pull some people of their Tea Party monitoring and keep an eye on him for a while.

42 posted on 06/01/2014 8:41:56 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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