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Source: Bergdahl physically abused by Taliban
CNN ^ | June 6, 2014 | By Tom Cohen, Jim Acosta and Barbara Starr

Posted on 06/06/2014 3:32:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was physically abused during his five years in Taliban captivity and is suffering from psychological trauma, a senior U.S. official told CNN on Friday.

The information bolstered the White House argument that President Barack Obama needed to move quickly to secure Bergdahl's release in a May 31 exchange for five Taliban figures held at Guantanamo Bay.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuse; bergdahl; journalism; media; taliban; talibanabuse; traitor
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To: leapfrog0202

Now he’s speaking English? That was fast!

From the article: “The accusations of desertion continue to hang over Bergdahl as he recovers. He is conversing in English and has become more engaged in treatment, a Pentagon spokesman said.”
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Yes, come mid-November they’ll check to see if he remembers how to ride a bicycle.


61 posted on 06/06/2014 4:18:27 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: TomGuy

Every day is is a new affront to what is “right” form Obastard and the media....I have reached the point where I am ready for the “hot war” the left is itching for.

This bastard is a deserter, and a traitor. Hang him.


62 posted on 06/06/2014 4:18:39 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: SisterK
I don’t think it was soccer. I thought I read it was badminton that he played with the captors.

Yes. He was the shuttlecock.

63 posted on 06/06/2014 4:25:27 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: SisterK
I don’t think it was soccer. I thought I read it was badminton that he played with the captors.

I've read both but soccer seems like a rougher sport what with these guys writhing in agony after a near miss.

64 posted on 06/06/2014 4:25:54 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sure.


65 posted on 06/06/2014 4:27:14 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When you go out looking for trouble sometimes you find it.


66 posted on 06/06/2014 4:30:19 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: TomGuy
The Taliban were Obama was using Bergdahl as the trade for their 5 generals.

There. Fixed it.

67 posted on 06/06/2014 4:31:38 PM PDT by bayliving
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To: don-o
1. Health in danger

2. Previously consulted with congress

3. Swiftboating

4. It was an oversight, sorry

5. Platoon full of psychopaths

6. Taliban threated to kill

7. "What differences does it make?"

8. Stockholm Syndrome

9. PTSD

10. No evidence converted to Islam, fraternized with Taliban, and declared jihad

11. Physically abused, confined in cage

68 posted on 06/06/2014 4:33:41 PM PDT by maggief
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To: don-o

"But you said no rough stuff!?"

69 posted on 06/06/2014 4:34:49 PM PDT by jetson
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To: Blood of Tyrants

>> Trial balloon.

And not necessarily directed at us, but instead to the Democrats and other Liberals the regime needs support from.


70 posted on 06/06/2014 4:35:08 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
From August 2013:  US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Running Mass Propaganda Accounts

And a few months later...

It’s true: Government agents are infiltrating online communities

-PJ

71 posted on 06/06/2014 4:38:02 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: chris37

Lol, lie hut, that is classic!

I don’t know, does anyone have an hard evidence of this claim? Photos or witnesses?

Gee this pos is making me wish I’d never heard his damn name.


72 posted on 06/06/2014 4:54:33 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

not even the Taliban like a traitor.


73 posted on 06/06/2014 5:02:58 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Kenny

The guy is not coming back to the states. The administration cannot take a chance with letting him be interviewed by anybody. My guess is that he will end up in a south seas resort or something...


74 posted on 06/06/2014 5:09:27 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wait until he gets a private meeting with 0bama. He’ll be sore for weeks.


75 posted on 06/06/2014 5:21:24 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It will be several weeks before Bergdahl is ready to be released. He must first commit to memory the story the administration is creating to cover their butts. Some have suggested that he be loaned one of His Arrogance’s old teleprompters just to ensure that he keeps on script.


76 posted on 06/06/2014 5:54:52 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: Oldeconomybuyer

When he couldn’t understand how to say “BOHICA” in Farsi, they demonstrated?


77 posted on 06/06/2014 5:55:39 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He looks healthier than Obama and especially Hillary.


78 posted on 06/06/2014 5:56:12 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And you believe anything that comes out of the White House?

Gee, I think Susan Rice is looking for that video producer who made films that made fun of the Taliban which led them to kidnap Bergdahl.

She’s working with OJ to find the guy.

Shit in; Shit out!


79 posted on 06/06/2014 6:18:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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