Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers protest swap, call him a deserter

Hotair ^ | 06/02/2014 | Ed Morrissey

[CincyRichieRich]

Giving away top terrorists for a deserter, coming on the heels of at least 40 vets dying at the VA so that they could collect bonuses. I hope this cooks Obama’s goose.

After elections bring in a GOP Senate lets impeach this Odumbo.

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Meanwhile the real soldier is in the Mexican jail being used as an immigration bargaining chip.

[justlurking]

Hastings is the reporter who died when he crashed at 90 MPH in LA at 4 AM last fall. He was certain that They were trying to kill him.

Wow, I didn't realize that Hastings wrote that article, or if you prefer: the author of the Rolling Stone article was the one that died mysteriously.

The coincidences just keep piling up.

[BlatherNaut]

bump

[svcw]

And the troops who died trying to find this traitor

[jettester]

Righting the “wrongs” that the Great Satan has committed against his fellow Muslims, Obama is willing to lose $500M in high tech arms, an Ambassador, multiple operators and the reputation of our fine country. What is his downside? A homosexual, a deserter and some luke-warm press?

[baddog 219]

[FreedomGuru]

Berdahl’s father spoke to his son in fluent Arabic praising Allah. This stinks to high heaven or stinks to the White House.

[cblue55]

I would hope these soldiers will speak out even more boldly. Our troops have fought a war and died to protect our country from these thug terrorists. And now we have a president who releases the worst of them in exchange for a deserter. This lawless president must be stopped. But I won’t hold my breath. I mourn for my country.

[justlurking]

You gotta wonder if the WH even knew this guy was a deserter? This will blow up big time on them.

They had to know. The circumstances were widely known in the military, and anyone knowing about it had to sign an NDA (which is unusual).

I think the White House figured the knee-pad media wouldn't report it. But, since it's gone viral, even the Washington Post and CNN couldn't ignore it.

I was curious if Snopes had addressed it. They haven't touched it (yet), other than to say their current information is "outdated":

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/bergdahl.asp

The site is run by a couple of leftists. It must really bug them to see this, and are probably burning the midnight oil to figure out how to spin it in favor of Obama.

[Vaduz]

Spot on I bet the media will have a black out on the VA problem and with this new mistake they will spin it big time.

[sport]

And everything you mentioned is a badge of honor within the Democrat Party and to Democrat voters. How the morals of the people of this Nation could sink so low as to put a son of a bitch such as this in the White House is a mystery to me. But it is what it is. And if he allows an election in 2016, the voters will put another of his ilk in the White House. To wit: One Hillary Clinton.

[milagro]

I call a Jethro Gibbs on THIS coincidence!

Add the death of Andrew Breitbart, and ---whoa!

The Taliban really is in the building!

[kjam22]

I mean this reads like a story that some freeper posted as sarcasm. Suddenly, like over night, Obamma trades 5 high ranking Taliban creeps from Gitmo for deserter (whose name sounds like "bird dog")... who hooked up with the enemy 5 years ago.

Bird dog's parents are flown to the white house where we see obammy and bird dog's mom walking arm and arm (as if something had just happened that moochelle would scratch the mom's eyes out over). Also walking out, but unattached, is bird dog's dad. At first glance he looks like he might be one of the duck commanders, but when he speaks in Arabic to his son, we know that beard is more associated with a third world terrorist. Next the white house sends trustworthy Susan Rice to explain that the guy was a hero or something and how fortunate we are to get him back before he dies of semi-natural causes while hanging out with his taliban captor type guys.

I mean, this is a CRAZY story.... that can only get worse for the WH. I really think a 20 something aid came up with this crazy idea to get the war hero back (TNT must have run Wag The Dog the night before).... and Obammy jumped on the idea to get the VA off the news cycle, without getting the facts.

I dunno.

[Rome2000]

“Other circumstances that may develop and questions, those will be dealt with later.”

This Hagel is obviously a moron.

[notaliberal]

I wonder if the administration will give him a bonus on top of his back pay.

[Kozak]

Wow that’s a really high bar to measure against.
There’s been SO MANY things.....

[justlurking]

If you follow some of the articles, the Taliban has been demanding the release of the 5 prisoners from the beginning of negotiations, several years ago.

I think the White House suddenly decided they had to agree to this to push the VA scandal off the front page. But, I don't think they realized the amount of blow-back, and especially the outrage over the circumstances of his disappearance (and subsequent deaths while looking for him). Either they thought it wouldn't matter (which is idiotic) or they thought it wouldn't be reported by the knee-pad media. But after the information went viral, it can't be ignored.

The DoD made all the participants sign an NDA (which is unusual). Now, some of them are ignoring it. It will be interesting to see if anyone gets prosecuted.

[kjam22]

This story is probably what made Carney quit. Imagine watching him try to defend this for the next 6 months....

[Gaffer]

I heard his father and mother on the radio this morning. It made me want to puke. They are rabid, tree-hugging liberal fanatics in my book. I suspect they are also closet Muslims.

[kjam22]

There will be a lot of whistle blowers on this deal...