Posted on 05/31/2014 9:51:48 AM PDT by ColdOne
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is back in U.S. custody after nearly five years of captivity, U.S. officials said Saturday.
The officials said the Taliban agreed to turn over Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The transfers happened after a week of intense negotiations mediated by
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This is a strange trade.
Wow, I nearly puked to see Obama parade his parents on television. His father said something to his son in Hebrew on TV but the announcer said it was Pashtu...which it was not. Things are curiouser and curiouser.
War can break a man, and that’s a fact. It’s conceivable that Bergdahl simply got claustrophobic on his forward operating base and decided to go for a brief jaunt outside, on the fateful night that the Taliban captured him. In that case, he would have gone AWOL, but to punish him for that at this point would appear sadistic.
The 9/11 death toll comes close to all the Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists since 1948.
I thought it was Hebrew as well. Did I hear correctly, or did they say that the POW had “forgotten English”, and that’s why the father addressed him in Pashtu? Weird.
"That incentive will put our forces in Afghanistan and around the world at even greater risk,' House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.) and the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, James M. Inhofe (Okla.), said in a joint statement."
“'Trading five senior Taliban leaders from detention in Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl’s release may have consequences for the rest of our forces and all Americans. Our terrorist adversaries now have a strong incentive to capture Americans.
LINK: Bergdahl release arrangement could threaten the safety of Americans, Republicans say
>>I thought we didn’t negotiate with terrorists?<<
America has been fundamentally transformed.
This oldie but goodie is now relevant.
http://nypost.com/2012/06/08/captured-us-soldiers-e-mails-suggest-he-deserted-in-afghanistan/
This is wrong on so many levels. Illegal. . didn't notify Congress. . Pay back for West Point. . timing with the VA scandal. . More diversion from Benghazi. . Negotiate with Terrorists. . "I will stand with the Muslims" . . Does a trade for a potential deserter. . How many Americans will die at the hands of the five murderous Taliban released? . . an appeasement gift to Afghanistan with the kiss of "Don't worry, soon it will all be yours." . . Obama says with the parents, "The United States of America does not ever leave its men and women in uniform behind.”. . MSM will slobber and spend a week on this making Obama out to be a hero. . all of this making me physically ill as I write this. . Anyone who criticizes Obama or (aghast) brings of Benghazi will be subject to Alinsky RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.) . .
Pray for America. . and Prepare.
What is with dad's beard? Is he a convert too?
If Obama took credit for “finding” and killing OBL, why did he need to pay a Ransom for our Soldier?
Couldn’t he just have used the same tools to locate OBL in the first place?
Oh that’s right, the Bush Policy of using Waterboarding help locate OBL. We can’t do that now, so it’s best to trade five Murdering Terrorist’s who have been proven responsible for the deaths of many including Americans to free the Soldier.
Makes us look really strong. Now let the Kidnapping of Americans begin. That should empty Club Gitmo in no time.
What could be worse is that the 5 terrorists may have been released from Gitmo in violation of the law.
The shocker is that some still worship Clown Prince nobama when it is obvious that he is a lawless degenerate.
Wasn’t it the National Guard General in New Orleans after Katrina that said “you can’t fix stupid”?
So, Bowe Bergdahl’s dad is deleting some embarrassing tweets. But screen caps live forever. pic.twitter.com/6lO9dL9p26— Ken Gardner (@kesgardner) June 1, 2014
Click Pic.
Flashback: A reminder about Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion problem
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/05/31/flashback-a-reminder-about-bowe-bergdahls-desertion-problem/
Worse yet if you check out the history of the five released they could play a part in a slow but sure Taliband takeover of Afghanistan,its what they did before. All this so Zero's numbers remain high enough so he is a viable fund raiser with his fellow travelers. Val/jar will instruct zero where to go for his next fundraiser to keep money flowing in for the terrorist dems.
It's a tight little group of chicago terrorists who run things and they have successfully used our money to create more of their own.
Very likely. However you have to remember we have a regime that pretty much makes up the law as the go.If they don’t have enough juice supporting what they do val/jar-axelrod create yet another EO and make new law.It’s almost better than a dictatorship.
This stinks of an excuse just to release terrorists.
Be interested to see if they have a big photo op at the Whitehouse when Bowe gets to the states. Will Bowe keep his beard?
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