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To: mojito

Looking at his parents and his life he seems to be the last guy who would up and join the armed services.

I can’t figure this one out.


50 posted on 06/08/2014 10:55:12 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

He tried the foreign legion first. My gut tells me he was just looking for a free plane ride and that his parents were already involved in Afghanistan.


56 posted on 06/08/2014 10:59:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: CaptainK

Looking at his parents and his life he seems to be the last guy who would up and join the armed services.

I can’t figure this one out.


Here’s what was in the Rolling Stone article as to why he joined the Army. He was “enticed” don’t ya know. He was going to Afghanistan to help “rebuild villages” and teach them to “defend themselves”. Uh-huh.

From article: But what Bowe found in the Army, according to his parents, was a “deception” – one that started from the moment he was recruited. Bowe had been enticed to join the Army, they say, with the promise that he would be going overseas to help Afghan villagers rebuild their lives and learn to defend themselves – “the whole COIN thing,” says Bob, citing the shorthand for America’s strategy of counterinsurgency. “We were given a fictitious picture, an artificially created picture of what we were doing in Afghanistan.”

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-prisoner-of-war-20120607#ixzz344a0aVOH
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76 posted on 06/08/2014 11:16:38 AM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: CaptainK

Yes, the overarching question has to be, Why did he join the Army? To desert? To go over to the Taliban? Or is this a carefully plotted scenario to get prisoners out of Guantanamo? Or?


112 posted on 06/08/2014 12:04:44 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: CaptainK

Obastard/Lib/Prog plant on the military just for propaganda purposes.


143 posted on 06/08/2014 2:57:52 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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