I live in Idaho. I am happy for this man’s family and will not say anything against that specifically.
However, I am appalled by what the Obama administration did to secure his release.
This is insane. He has negotiated with terrorists and freed five of the most deadly captives we had. Several of them have American blood on their hands and the others our allies. They will go back to planning and killing more Americans. They should have been summarily executed long ago after we got all of the intelligence we could out of them.
It is a travesty and will lead to many more American deaths...and what will we tell the parents, family, and friends of those killed?
It will open the door for other groups, and the Taliban to take more Americans so they can get more of their top people back. What will we tell the parents, family and friends of those taken?
Again, the Obama administration has cavalierly violated US law to make this happen.
It sickens me to think what this will lead to.
We already know the Taliban is viewing it (and understandably so) as a great victory. They will use it to recruit more killers.
As to the Sgt. himself...irrespective of the amount of time he was held...the circumstances of his going missing need to be investigated. He had written to his parents telling them he had lost faith with the mission, was ashamed to be an American, and was thinking of going AWOL.
Did he? We do not know...but it needs to be understood just the same.
Jeff , if we had any brains , we would now send in our best operators and kill each of those 5 a-holes before they can get very far . And if we don’t have the stones to do the deed , authorize Mossad , who do . We got our guy , now show them what happens ....Do it soon .
No Taliban
prisoner has survived longer than a few weeks without being killed ,
This creep plotted his escaoe to the Taliban.
He is a documented traitor .
We'll tell them it was because of a video, etc. etc. until 2 years later when it's Like 2 years ago, Dude!
Oh it’s all part of the new “world dialogue” obamaumao spoke of at West Point graduation. Tone deaf to reality— or more specifically our policy allies itself with the islamofascists in yet another wussified “peace in our time”.
Each one of the top leaders of the Taliban are at minimum
mass murderers. But moral equivocator the likes of which is Mr. Bergdahl (the dad) are without question the worst.
We had these kind of people in WWII, and esp. in Vietnam. Only a traitor like the obamaomau would side this way as he sneers at our veterans and their lack of care, siphons away pensions for veterans and generally has put Hagel in charge of “downsizing” our world wide military, thereby putting us at risk with our allies (each one of which he has also disrespected like the good marxist he is).
FReepers need to keep an eye on the MSM reporting. I just heard Imus (yes, he IS still alive) offer that the release was a nice diversion from the VA mess.
Wonder if McCain stands by his statement from 2008 - "we have nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency..."