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Bergdahl: connecting the dots
legalinsurrection.com ^ | 6-2-2014 | neo-neocon

Posted on 06/02/2014 6:09:10 AM PDT by servo1969

So, we have Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl released in exchange for five of the most notorious Taliban held in Guantanamo, the place Obama keeps saying he wants to empty. This certainly helps to empty it.

The five men will now be held by Qatar, which has reassured us they’ll be in secure conditions but won’t say what those conditions are, except that they can’t travel out of the country for a year. Qatar is a Wahabi country, by the way, with a history of assisting Islamic movements worldwide.

Obama has been winding down the Afghan War, and one of his stalled goals in connection with that is negotiations with the Taliban. So it may be that the release of these particular prisoners wasn’t just a reluctant move in order to free Bergdahl, it may be more accurate to say that Bergdahl’s release was negotiated at this point in time in order to free the Taliban Five:

The official’s comments hinted that the deal is seen as potentially helping the Afghan government, which soon will have a new president, in efforts to end strife with the Taliban — a point seconded by Jonah Blank, a senior political scientist at the Santa Monica, California-based RAND Corporation.

“The Taliban prisoners released weren’t mere bargaining chips: It’s quite possible that, as influential figures, they’ll facilitate a broader negotiated settlement,” in Afghanistan, said Blank, a former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Doesn’t sound as though the plan is to keep them locked up in Qatar, does it?

And then there’s the goal of the resumption of direct talks between the Taliban and the US:

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” from Bagram, Hagel said the prisoner trade could provide a window of opportunity for peace in Afghanistan.

“So maybe this will be a new opening that can produce an agreement,” he said, noting that the United States had engaged in talks with the Taliban in the past.

As for Bergdahl himself, his capture in Afghanistan involved some interesting circumstances:

Rolling Stone magazine quoted emails Bergdahl is said to have sent to his parents that suggest he was disillusioned with America’s mission in Afghanistan, had lost faith in the U.S. Army’s mission there and was considering desertion.

Bergdahl told his parents he was “ashamed to even be American.” Bergdahl, who mailed home boxes containing his uniform and books, also wrote: “The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.”

Here’s more:

Bowe Bergdahl would detail his disillusionment with the Afghanistan campaign in an e-mail to his parents three days before he went missing.

“I am sorry for everything here,” he wrote. “These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid.”

Bergdahl also complained about fellow soldiers. The battalion commander was a “conceited old fool,” he said, and the only “decent” sergeants, planning to leave the platoon “as soon as they can,” told the privates — Bergdahl then among them — “to do the same.”

“I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools,” he concluded. “I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”

Bob Bergdahl responded in an e-mail: “OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!”

One night, after finishing a guard-duty shift Bowe Bergdahl asked his team leader whether there would be a problem if he left camp with his rifle and night-vision goggles — to which the team leader replied “yes.”

Bergdahl then returned to his bunker, picked up a knife, water, his diary and a camera, and left camp, according to Rolling Stone.

The next morning, he was reported missing…

Last but hardly least, Obama did not comply with a law that requires he give Congress 30 days notice if releasing prisoners from Guantanamo. Here’s the reason, according to Susan Rice in an interview:

“We could not take any risk with … losing the opportunity to bring him back safely,” she said, adding the Department of Defense had consulted with the Department of Justice before making the decision.

“Given the acute urgency of the health condition of Sgt. Bergdahl, and given the President’s constitutional responsibilities, it was determined that it was necessary and appropriate not to adhere to the 30-day notification requirement, because it would have potentially meant that the opportunity to get Sgt. Bergdahl would have been lost.”

So, supposedly Bergdahl’s health was an urgent concern, after five years of it not being such an urgent concern. That of course is possible, but somehow I’m skeptical. Disregarding the law about informing Congress seems completely in line with the Obama administration’s notion that the law is for the little people or for Obama’s opponents, not for them. After all, who’s going to stop them? Eric Holder’s Department of Justice?


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; bobbergdahl; bowebergdahl; gitmo; obama; qatar; secdefhagel; taliban5; talibannegotiations; wot
I believe Obama's policy has been the appeasement of the Taliban. There have been no major terrorist attacks of the WTC level because he has been giving them what they want. He gets to look effective in the WOT and they get money and weapons and years to put their ducks in row for the big push. But he will be gone soon and sometime in the next 3 years the S will hit the fan. I don't know if they will wait until he is out or if they will go ahead while he is still in. If he's still in perhaps he will use their attack as an excuse to activate certain contingency plans. The Pentagon has given $4 billion worth of military equipment to local police forces. These include everything from tactical gear to weapons to those mine resistant, ambush protected vehicles known as MRAPs. Does your local police force have one?
1 posted on 06/02/2014 6:09:10 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

baraq and his team of fellow travelers have been setting our country up for either a financial crash like 2008 or a terrorist attack or both while they are in power. It is significant that they be in power when the crisis hits.

After 9/11, their media was all upset that Klinton was no longer in power. In their minds, Klinton would have been in a position to shine. The media was very upset about that. Now we are in a precarious situation with an angry vengefull democrat in charge. Don’t forget Obama’s advisor made the statement that they never let a crisis go to waste.

These human vermin are setting the table for multiple crisis and have well prepared to take full advantage of the situation.


2 posted on 06/02/2014 6:14:07 AM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is now the CPUSA)
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To: servo1969

It is starting to appear that the Obama regime pulled this stunt at this time to get their VA scandal out of the news. This regime is nothing but a bunch of sickos.


3 posted on 06/02/2014 6:18:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: servo1969

Obama negotiated with terrorists to get a deserter back? Why am I not surprised? Obama would have abandoned a more loyal soldier.


4 posted on 06/02/2014 6:21:36 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama stands for the corruption of America in all aspects.)
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To: servo1969

You’re right. I don’t think this was about the “captured” US Soldier at all. I think this was about an excuse to free 5 terrorists.


5 posted on 06/02/2014 6:27:03 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: servo1969
Der Fool!


6 posted on 06/02/2014 6:28:16 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: servo1969

We already knew that Bergdahl was a America hater.
So has he admitted to being a convert to muslim yet?

Is that one of the reasons Obama was willing to break the law and release five muslim terrorists.

And why hasn’t he shaved off that ridiculous beard yet?


7 posted on 06/02/2014 6:28:34 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Black skin has morphed into Teflon.)
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To: servo1969
I heard the White House spin that he was drunk and wondered of base.

But anyone that knew him says he didn't drink or socialize.

8 posted on 06/02/2014 6:29:49 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: servo1969

Hillary and Obama were up to no good when they overthrew the government of Libya. They counted on the American press not reporting their actions. They didn’t count on Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda slapped Hillary and Obama in the face at Benghazi. Killing the Ambassador wasn’t the main objective for Al Qaeda at Benghazi. Al Qaeda’s main objective at Benghazi was to make it clear to Hillary and Obama that they were aware of their dirty deeds in Libya and they would bring those deeds to light if Hillary and Obama didn’t start supplying them. Benghazi was a military action by Al Qaeda to support their political action of blackmailing Hillary and Obama. They succeeded.

This is why $5,000,000,000 is “missing” from the State Department. This is why American weapons, armored vehicles and night vision equipment were shipped to Libya after Benghazi and left unguarded so our enemy could “steal” them. This is why five enemy leaders are released. Hillary and Obama, and by extension, all the citizens of the United States are being blackmailed by our enemies.


9 posted on 06/02/2014 6:37:40 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Iron Munro
So has he admitted to being a convert to muslim yet?

And why hasn’t he shaved off that ridiculous beard yet?

Because of his muslim religious beliefs?

10 posted on 06/02/2014 6:39:07 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There is more to this.

This isn’t simply a diversion it’s been in the works too long.

Fact is I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the VA scandal was “planned” as part of it.

For the last few months Obama has gone full bore and has been intentionally stirring up dissent in the military, with Vets, with people that support the military and Vets, and anyone else that disagrees with the lefts agenda.

The last time Obama went this full bore to stir up dissent on the right against what he was doing, there was a fertilizer car bombing attempt in NYC which they tried to blame on the “Right Wing Extremist TEA Party”.

The jug eared clown is making preparations for something, the question is what is it he has planned.


11 posted on 06/02/2014 6:42:34 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: ThunderSleeps

Exactly. Obama wanted to free the terrorists anyway. Now he has broken the law to make a trade. Will Congress do anything? I doubt it.


12 posted on 06/02/2014 6:46:07 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: servo1969

Obama’s most recent visit with the troops in Afghanistan wasn’t about showing his support for them (Memorial Day weekend). He was in Afghanistan - snubbing Karzai - and making illegal deals. His puppets dare suggest he didn’t negotiate with terrorists?


13 posted on 06/02/2014 7:04:51 AM PDT by wtd
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14 posted on 06/02/2014 7:05:59 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/we-lost-soldiers-in-the-hunt-for-bergdahl-a-guy-who-walked-off-in-the-dead-of-night.html


15 posted on 06/02/2014 7:15:53 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: servo1969
So it may be that the release of these particular prisoners wasn’t just a reluctant move in order to free Bergdahl, it may be more accurate to say that Bergdahl’s release was negotiated at this point in time in order to free the Taliban Five:

The official’s comments hinted that the deal is seen as potentially helping the Afghan government, which soon will have a new president, in efforts to end strife with the Taliban — a point seconded by Jonah Blank, a senior political scientist at the Santa Monica, California-based RAND Corporation.

“The Taliban prisoners released weren’t mere bargaining chips: It’s quite possible that, as influential figures, they’ll facilitate a broader negotiated settlement,” in Afghanistan, said Blank, a former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” from Bagram, Hagel said the prisoner trade could provide a window of opportunity for peace in Afghanistan.

“So maybe this will be a new opening that can produce an agreement,” he said, noting that the United States had engaged in talks with the Taliban in the past.

Noting all the "maybe, potential, possible, could" crap among the discussants above leads to the certain firm undeniable conclusion that 'they' have their heads firmly implanted up their asses.

And just who are 'they'? Let's look at one of them:

Jonah Blank, a senior political scientist at the Santa Monica, California-based RAND Corporation; a former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In other words, a DC establishment Maggot.

In order to get our government back, a government that represents us, a government that works for us, we need to drain the swamp that is DC and clear the area of these maggots, replacing them with true-blooded patriot Americans who reside in DC for a few years to do the business of Americans.

As far as Jonah is concerned, he would do well to learn a real trade. 'Maybe' I will hire him temporarily as my gardener.

16 posted on 06/02/2014 7:20:17 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: servo1969

I’ve been out of the loop regarding this “swap” and now I can’t follow it at all. How would anyone in the administration KNOW that this guy was suffering in bad health if he was a prisoner? Why are some reports that he was “rescued?” Was he or was he handed over? How did this take place?

My husband is in the hospital and I’ve been sick so please pardon my tardiness in joining this party. I don’t need the answers to know that EVERYTHING coming out of this rotten administration stinks to high heaven but I would like to satisfy my curiosity. Thanks.


17 posted on 06/02/2014 8:00:56 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Rapscallion

If this guy had been a decorated Navy SEAL Bam would likely have never tried to get him back.


18 posted on 06/02/2014 8:58:35 AM 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: servo1969
Will the terrorists delay their next big attack on the US until after the 2016 election in hopes of helping the Democrats?

What happens if Obama releases all the terrorists from Gitmo by the end of the year? Will he get a second Nobel Peace Prize as a reward? First time for everything (no one else has won more than once).

19 posted on 06/02/2014 9:28:20 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: servo1969
those mine resistant, ambush protected vehicles known as MRAPs.

Time to acquire the makings of thermite.

20 posted on 06/02/2014 11:59:10 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
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