[himno hero]

There never was a trade. What did America get back of value?

For Barack and his brethren, he gifted the globe well rested terrorists to renew their attacks on western man.

For America? Nothing, excepting we will have a government sanctioned terrorist and his peers walking amongst us.

This guy, like Michelle Obama, denied America.

...and we wonder why we are failing.

[Kaslin]

Exactly

[Verginius Rufus]

There was a report on Wed. evening that at one point there was almost a deal to get Bergdahl back in return for cash, but the Obama administration scuttled that because they wanted to hand over the Gitmo terrorist detainees.

If Obama's most important objective is to clear out Gitmo, it makes sense to start with the five worst prisoners.

He has dedicated his presidency to overturning everything George W. Bush did--the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror, the detention of terrorists at Guantanamo. He has accomplished the first by pulling out entirely from Iraq. He is set to pull out completely from Afghanistan and in effect to say we are no longer fighting terrorism. So Guantanamo is the biggest remaining item.

[libstripper]

Agreed. This definitely was not a trade. Rather, Bergdahl was an implement, a two legged excuse, and cover for a release that the Mahdi desperately wanted to make to facilitate his ill-disguised plan to achieve a negotiated surrender to the Taliban. The whole idea is to disguise the surrender as an orderly withdrawal. Doing that requires the Taliban’s cooperation; hence, the release of their general staff.