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White House braced for Bowe Bergdahl backlash
Politico ^ | June 4, 2014 | EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE and CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN

Posted on 06/04/2014 4:16:21 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: SADMILLIE

I thought that at first - something really bad must be at stake to bring us to our knees/ make us do this - but then I realized no- and came to terms with the fact that the something huge was Obama’s desire to set the terrorists free, since America is the real problem here. We need to get all these poor guys who were simply reacting to the evil subjugation by America out of Gitmo. In short - Obama is on their side :).


21 posted on 06/04/2014 4:45:27 PM PDT by TeddyRay
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To: SADMILLIE

Why were those particular detainees released? Who decided who was to be released? What happened to the $6 billion the State Dept. can’t account for?


22 posted on 06/04/2014 4:47:19 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Second Amendment First
The United States has a “pretty sacred rule and that is we don’t leave our men or women in uniform behind and that dates back to the earliest days,” Obama said Tuesday at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland. “Regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American soldier back if he’s held in captivity. Period. Full stop. We don’t condition that.”

BULLSHIT!*

That mindless assertion would suggest that if the North Vietnamese had "captured" and held Jane Fonda, we would have risked lives to "save her" from herself.
In an alternate universe, perhaps.

I remember, quite clearly that there was almost unanimous agreement to pay a huge sum to the To the N. Vietnamese, conditional on their keeping her for the rest of her miserable life!

* Moderator, before removing this post due to "language," please do yourself a favor and check the scholarly validation of the concept...

Princeton Press--- 'On Bullshit'

23 posted on 06/04/2014 4:49:13 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: SADMILLIE
There is something huge under this.

Weapons. Syria.

24 posted on 06/04/2014 4:49:22 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Second Amendment First

White House seem to treat the words “honor and distinction” as meaningless phrase you say to every serving military officer. They have to have done something during their service to deserve that honor. Simply joining the military isn’t enough


25 posted on 06/04/2014 4:49:40 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Second Amendment First
I'm surprised I haven't seen more commentary on the parallels between Bergdahl and "Old Shoe" in the film, "Wag The Dog."

For those that haven't seen the film, suffice it to say that the powers that be invent a hero POW to distract the public, and he turns out to be, well, less than a hero...

26 posted on 06/04/2014 4:52:30 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Second Amendment First
One of the Senators was talking to Greta, and said he is more convinced than ever that the administration intentionally by passed Congress.
27 posted on 06/04/2014 4:56:38 PM PDT by mware
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Damn, I am listening to Greta right now and she said the WH ran the bypassing of Congress by the AG.

WTH

28 posted on 06/04/2014 4:59:14 PM PDT by mware
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To: Second Amendment First
“I think the principle of leaving no man behind will ultimately prevail,” said White House spokesperson Eric Schultz.

Hey, Obamorons, YOO HOO!

That only applies to Americans in uniform not providing aid and comfort to the enemy.

As for deserters and traitors,

Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.

29 posted on 06/04/2014 5:06:12 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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"I  think the principle of leaving no man behind will ultimately prevail,” said White House spokesperson Eric Schultz.

Except when it comes to patients af VA hospitals.

30 posted on 06/04/2014 5:06:29 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: darkwing104

Agreed, this article is BS.


31 posted on 06/04/2014 5:08:38 PM PDT by CityCenter (Resist Obamacare!)
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To: Second Amendment First

But was he a captive or a turncoat like so many in Korea?


32 posted on 06/04/2014 5:18:04 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (If you lined up the best and brightest of this administration, you'd just have a string of dim bulbs)
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To: Steely Tom

God Bless All Swiftboaters, young and old!


33 posted on 06/04/2014 5:25:38 PM PDT by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: SADMILLIE
But he is not the story. Why did we pay ransom? There is something huge under this.

...And why did Obama trade 5 for 1? Why is Bergdahl alive, when everyone other captive gets murdered? It makes no sense, unless you are a terrorist sympathizer.

Obama and his admin. has alot to answer for, and this f'wad gov't better MAKE him answer and hold these illegitimate ass prix accountable!

34 posted on 06/04/2014 5:27:56 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: SADMILLIE

Why did the White House OUT the covert CIA station chief in Afghanistan?????


35 posted on 06/04/2014 5:28:34 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Joe 6-pack

I thought about that film while reading about this latest mess. Going to have to watch it again.


36 posted on 06/04/2014 5:33:34 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Inyo-Mono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4ZLwevXAI


37 posted on 06/04/2014 5:35:03 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: SADMILLIE

“There is something huge under this.”

As “Sherlock Holmes” noted ‘eliminate the impossible and what you have left, however improbable, is the answer.

For me that means that obozo wanted to let these 5 killers out and he found a way to do it. Period. Full stop.


38 posted on 06/04/2014 5:37:20 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: SADMILLIE

I think you are correct! Is it possible that there is something so big that, if known, 95% of America would storm the WH. Is it possible that the Muzzies have knowledge so significant that they are threatening to release it to America and Obummer is being blackmailed???


39 posted on 06/04/2014 5:37:34 PM PDT by alabama_heart
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To: Second Amendment First

Politico is America’s version of Nazis waving flags for Der Fuhrer and goosestepping in torch-light parades.

Politico should be banned from FR for the same reason that Stormfront is banned.

F’ Politico, you dirty, slimey Nazi SOBs.


40 posted on 06/04/2014 5:37:44 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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