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Top Democrat: Bergdahl Deal 'Dangerous Precedent that Puts All Americans at Risk
The Weekly Standard ^ | June 4, 2014 | JOHN MCCORMACK

Posted on 06/04/2014 11:19:25 AM PDT by don-o

Baltimore's CBS affiliate WJZ reports that Democratic congressman Dutch Ruppersburger of Maryland is blasting President Obama's decision to release five Taliban commanders in exchange for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl:

Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, calls this a “dangerous precedent that puts all Americans at risk throughout the world.”

Ruppersberger is one of a growing chorus of critics who say five Taliban prisoners is too high a cost.

“Since World War Two we have not negotiated with terrorists or other groups,” Ruppersberger said, according to WJZ’s media partner the Baltimore Sun. “What concerns me is the future. This puts all Americans at risk throughout the world, including our men and women on the front line…for kidnapping.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; bregdahl; congress; dutchruppersberger; freakstate; liberalagenda; obama; taliban
FULL: Top Democrat: Bergdahl Deal 'Dangerous Precedent that Puts All Americans at Risk Throughout the World'

Stampede!

1 posted on 06/04/2014 11:19:25 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o
Top Democrat Dutch Ruppersburger?

He's so high up in the organization that I've never heard of him.

Of course, with that name, I might have heard of him and forgotten. /s

2 posted on 06/04/2014 11:21:15 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: don-o

Electing Obama was a dangerous precedent.

All Americans at Risk Throughout the World.


3 posted on 06/04/2014 11:22:07 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Steely Tom

With a name like that, he might be a distant cousin of the Pittsburgh Steeler’s Quarterback.


4 posted on 06/04/2014 11:23:01 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: don-o
Dear Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger,

What are you going to do Dutch? Nothing but talk? Either arrest all the present or former members of the Obama administration or 'Shut Up' Dutch! Talk is cheap.

5 posted on 06/04/2014 11:23:42 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Steely Tom

It is noteworthy that he is from Maryland, a very deep blue state where any criticism of Obama is seldom heard.


6 posted on 06/04/2014 11:24:07 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Steely Tom

His name was mentioned as requesting talking points from the Regime for Benghazi.


7 posted on 06/04/2014 11:24:18 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

Obama’s Muslim leanings are becoming more and more apparent day by irritating day. There is no way that he has American interests at heart. Either that, or he is completely under the mesmerizing control of Jarrett.


8 posted on 06/04/2014 11:25:55 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: don-o

I’ve heard some horrific stories about some of the operations these Taliban Fab Five had executed in the past. There is no question these guys are going to murder more people in the future, probably a great many more. So what about the families of those who will be killed? What’s their recourse? Whom do they go see about that?


9 posted on 06/04/2014 11:28:59 AM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: don-o
His name was mentioned as requesting talking points from the Regime for Benghazi.

You can request talking points from the White House?

Dear Jay:

What can I say?
Give me some words to make it OK.
Preferably before you go away.


10 posted on 06/04/2014 11:28:59 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Steely Tom

The Regime includes Foggy Bottom. And FBI. And CIA. And more.


11 posted on 06/04/2014 11:31:10 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: All

They mis-spelled President.


12 posted on 06/04/2014 11:51:40 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: unixfox

Father Of Soldier Who Obama Released, Declares Muslim Victory Call, And Obama Smiles As Soon As He Hears The War Cry Of Allah

By Ted on June 2, 2014 in Featured, General

By Walid Shoebat And Theodore Shoebat (A Shoebat Exclusive)

JUST WAIT TILL YOU READ ALL THE EVIDENCE WE ACCUMULATED ON THIS SUPPOSED RESCUE OPERATION.

FIRST THINGS FIRST

While the Obama administration is proudly touting how it was able to free an American soldier who was captured by the Taliban, what no one picked is the fact that Obama SMILED as soon as he heard the most famous war cry of Islam, “bismillah al-rahman al-rahim,” Arabic for “in the name of Allah the most gracious, the most merciful.”

Watch Obama smile as soon as Bergdahl gives the most famous Muslim expression, the “Bismillah” or the “Basmallah”:
The “basmallah” is the Islamic expression for victory and only indicates that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s father is a Muslim.

Think that the man is acting as “Muslim” for a stealth operation to rescue his son who is already in good hands in Germany? And what is with the long beard and trimmed mustache?

No this is not a bum, biker, or a Santa Clause fan. When one gives the basmallah, trims his mustache and elongates his beard, its the first sign of a convert to Islam, just as that an ex-Muslim putting on a cross and saying, “In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,” is evidence enough of conversion to Christianity. But there is much more we obtained on this stealth jihadist.

But first, Obama’s smile says much. Obama has never declared the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and has no real testimony of converting to Christianity, as his pastor Jeremiah Wright stated:

I made it easy for him to come to an understanding of who Jesus Christ is and not feel that he was turning his back on his Islamic friends and his Islamic traditions and his understanding of Islam

EVIDENCE THAT BERGDAHL CONVERTED TO JIHADI ISLAM

We were first hit with news from Brietbart that the Taliban said that Robert Bowe Bergdahl’s son, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, converted to Islam, changed his name to Abdullah, and even trained the Taliban in bomb making techniques.

And like father like son, the young Bergdahl, also trims his mustache and extends his beard, as these pictures show:

The rest of the history…

http://shoebat.com/2014/06/02/father-soldier-obama-released-declares-muslim-victory-call-obama-smiles-soon-hears-war-cry-allah/


13 posted on 06/04/2014 11:58:57 AM PDT by Dqban22
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To: don-o

I suppose the White House is going to label this senior Democrat a “swiftboater” now?


14 posted on 06/04/2014 12:19:00 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Steely Tom

Dutch is from Maryland. Baltimore County, where I grew up, to be exact.


15 posted on 06/04/2014 12:45:11 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: colorado tanker

I suspect Dutch is up for re-election in 2014 and is getting heat from some of his constituents.


16 posted on 06/04/2014 12:48:26 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: unixfox

This goes beyond a Republican—Democrat thing. It is a bad deal for all America. Time to impeach Obama—If he was GOP he would have been forced out in 2010.


17 posted on 06/04/2014 1:00:39 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: don-o

He better start checking his break lines every time he gets in his car.


18 posted on 06/04/2014 1:12:48 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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