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Bergdahl wrote of being 'ashamed' to be an American in emails
FoxNews ^ | June 03, 2014

Posted on 06/03/2014 5:47:59 PM PDT by Red Steel

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left a letter the night he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan saying he wanted to renounce his citizenship, according to sources, and previously expressed his disillusionment with the Army, telling his father in an e-mail he was "ashamed" to be an American.

That account, though, is being called into question amid conflicting claims over whether Bergdahl left a note behind. U.S Army officials who have read the investigation document said there was no reference in that report to a letter.

While Bergdahl remained at a U.S. military hospital in Germany following a swap for five high-level Taliban members — dubbed a jihadist "Dream Team" — two of Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers told Fox News Channel that the 28-year-old Idaho native willingly walked away from his post in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009. Their claims that Bergdahl's departure from the base was premeditated jibes with emails published in 2012, in which he told his father of his growing disenchantment with the Army's mission in Afghanistan.

“The future is too good to waste on lies,” Bergdahl wrote his parents. “And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting.”

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1 posted on 06/03/2014 5:47:59 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

He has something in common with the First “Lady”


2 posted on 06/03/2014 5:48:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nice catch...


3 posted on 06/03/2014 5:50:03 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Red Steel

Did we just trade Hitler, Himmler, and Goering for Benedict Arnold?


4 posted on 06/03/2014 5:50:43 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Red Steel

Why does this sound like the next cabinet appointee?


5 posted on 06/03/2014 5:52:18 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..u)
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To: Red Steel

Maybe one of the Dixie Chicks is available.


6 posted on 06/03/2014 5:53:02 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Red Steel

According to his unit buddies, this ass-wagon sent all of his personal belongs HOME to Idaho, a week before he came up missing!

You don’t send all your crap home, when you are not even HALF-WAY THROUGH your duty assignment!

He sent his crap home, he left a note, and then he walked into the open arms of the Taliban! This TRAITOR needs to be attached to a short rope from a tall tree!


7 posted on 06/03/2014 5:55:41 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Viennacon

Actually in reading history BA had a legitimate gripe. Not like this traitor.


8 posted on 06/03/2014 5:56:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: Red Steel

Don’t you dare question his patriotism, though.


9 posted on 06/03/2014 5:57:12 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Red Steel

Idaho is getting ready to have a big parade for their America-hating boy.


10 posted on 06/03/2014 5:57:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Red Steel
Just occurred to me ...Bob Bergdahl urged Bowe to trust his military reintegration team, and he also suggested his son could no longer speak English.

Could it be that daddy Bergdahl was instructing his son to speak only in his adopted foreign tongue to avoid revealing too much .? Instructing his son to trust his reintegration team would also suggest that these team members are also fluent in that tongue in order to communicate with Bowe and the administration. I would even venture to guess that the entire bunch are in cahoots to keep the evolving narrative intact as long as possible. This appears to be quite a challenging task given the walk back this afternoon :

State Dept changes it's tune now unsure if Bergdahl captured during combat via theBlaze Perhaps Bowe is not willing to concede to the administration's much desired 'returning rescued hero' meme.

11 posted on 06/03/2014 5:59:02 PM PDT by wtd
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To: wtd
I think that you've made some valid suppositions worth pondering and keeping one’s eyes open to see if the dots connect.
12 posted on 06/03/2014 6:05:39 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Posted this further down, but, it may be time for a Gathering of Eagles, part 2. I’m willing to drive from Georgia and pick up as many of my brothers and their gear along the route that my car will hold. Sisters welcome too. Let’s swamp that hick town if they want a parade.


13 posted on 06/03/2014 6:05:56 PM PDT by gatorhead
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To: Red Steel

It looks like I have something in common with Bergdahl.
I’m also ashamed that he is an American.


14 posted on 06/03/2014 6:09:40 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Posted this further down, but, it may be time for a Gathering of Eagles, part 2. I’m willing to drive from Georgia and pick up as many of my brothers and their gear along the route that my car will hold. Sisters welcome too. Let’s swamp that hick town if they want a parade.


15 posted on 06/03/2014 6:10:07 PM PDT by gatorhead
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To: Red Steel

That’s why he is getting the royal treatment from the white house.


16 posted on 06/03/2014 6:10:36 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Red Steel

When this Bergdahl character WENT AWOL and SHOULD have been declared a DESERTER from the gitgo, he left behind emails and notes saying he was “disgusted” with the United States and talked about RENOUNCING HIS CITIZENSHIP. (During my 4 years in the USAF in the Vietnam era, I wasn’t all that thrilled about how the government was mishandling a war that was getting so many of our folks unnecessarily KIA but never once thought about doing what THIS clown did!)

Despite obozo’s desire to keep all this hush-hush, MORE will come out as his former comrades defy orders to shut up and do speak out.
Now, here are the $64,000.00 questions that may have already been asked:
After 5 years with the Taliban, just how many IEDs and other “devices” did they teach him how to construct?
And, once he’s set out and about in the US population, how many other similarly disaffected malcontents, black muslims, radical Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dohrn wannabes will he teach everything the Taliban taught him?

Think Boston Marathon bombers X 10 to the 10th power on steroids!!

And we can all thank the TRAITOR in the Spite House, his lackeys in the bureaucracy, congress,the Pentagon and the lapdog media!

Doesn’t bother you, you say? It may if one of YOUR loved ones happens to be in a shopping mall when one of those devices goes off


17 posted on 06/03/2014 6:15:38 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Red Steel

I’m ashamed that Bergdahl is an American.


18 posted on 06/03/2014 6:19:38 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Farmer Dean

Considering how this Ø was elected twice, for the first time in my life I’m ashamed to be American.


19 posted on 06/03/2014 6:40:07 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Red Steel

This traitor (Bowe Bergdahl) should be put with his back against the wall and shot when he gets back in the USA.


20 posted on 06/03/2014 7:54:26 PM PDT by Finalmente
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