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The Real Goal Behind the Bergdahl Deal
AP/Real Clear Defense ^ | June 5, 2014 | By Kathy Gannon

Posted on 06/05/2014 7:53:25 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

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To: QT3.14
Since we've learned the White House was responsible for Bowe shaving clean for his release...

I do appreciate your photoshopping--It is photoshop, right? In that vein, allah (Franco-islamic term) pre-photoshop, my surmise is that the WH supplied the white shirt and tie for daddy (such supplies being common at restaurants in DC). Otherwise, beige pants/white shirt/blue tie? Islamo-convert fashion daftness on display!

HF

41 posted on 06/05/2014 8:50:44 AM PDT by holden
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To: stevie_d_64; Tenacious 1

Rev. Wright: “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”


42 posted on 06/05/2014 8:52:33 AM PDT by foxfield (Support the Tea Party. The Tea Party supports you.)
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To: tioga
[The media has let them down. For once, Americans are not accepting the lies. Wowser. Not what Obama expected at all.]

That has surprised me but it may be this thing's too big to cover up. The Washington Post even sent reporters to the village where Bergdahl disappeared and what they reported today was that Bergdahl seemed to be seeking contact with the Taliban.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3163645/posts

43 posted on 06/05/2014 8:59:30 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The only future of Azzaghanistan that the Taliban are interested in is getting back to thowing acid on school girls.


44 posted on 06/05/2014 9:00:13 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: Brad from Tennessee
That's the way I read it too. It was really a superficial look at what happened. (Is happening)

Politics aside, to talk about a peaceful Afghanistan without mentioning drug cultivation and drug traffic, is childish.

That kid getting released is just a pretext to cover some OTHER transaction which is much more insidious.

“O” knew there’d be objections to this but for what ever reason, he must feel it is worth the trouble, in the end.

Think about something ELSE even MORE objectionable and illicit... c’mon you KNOW he's capable of it.

45 posted on 06/05/2014 9:00:24 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I have seen this story before - 70 years ago to be exact!

The Democratic Administration of President Johnson did all kinds of political maneuvering and signal sending to get the North Vietnamese Government to make meaningful steps towards settling the conflict in Vietnam.

In the 1964 Presidential Campaign Goldwater was slammed by the Democrats and their media supporters for proposing a “purely military” solution to Vietnam. Well, guess what folks, 9 years later President Nixon executed a “purely military” solution to get the North Vietnamese back to the peace conference table - an operation called LINEBACKER and LINEBACKER II.

IMHO, the democrats were responsible for most of the 58,000 Americans KIA and I don’t know how many thousands of Vietnamese, North and South killed 1964 - 1972.

Is there anyone out there foolish enough to think this latest Democratic posturing is going to have a better outcome than their efforts in the 1960s?


46 posted on 06/05/2014 9:05:51 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Appeasement
47 posted on 06/05/2014 9:10:57 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“Peace in our time.” — Neville Chamberlain


48 posted on 06/05/2014 9:14:44 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: SMARTY
Obama says he seeks stability in Afghanistan. Totalitarian societies are “stable” because the authorities brutally suppress internal dissent. The Clinton Administration had treaties with the Taliban and gave them foreign aid, turning a blind eye to their barbarism. Whatever negative view the Afghans have of the U.S., they hate and fear the Taliban like the Devil. Many of them will take up arms and fight. That's the future.
49 posted on 06/05/2014 9:18:35 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Truthfully, it's as if Obama were hoping to initiate an impeachment proceedings against him so that he could unify the base and bring them to the polls in November. He is truly the most divisive president ever.
50 posted on 06/05/2014 9:19:53 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: xzins

4. Obama wants to foment impeachment proceedings against himself so that he can unify his base and get them to turn out in droves in November.


51 posted on 06/05/2014 9:22:59 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

That’s a real possibility that he’s thinking that.

Personally, I wouldn’t do it because there’s not a prayer it will make it through the Democrat controlled Senate.


52 posted on 06/05/2014 9:36:01 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Pollster1

An engineering professor in college once told me there should be three good reasons for any unconventional (aircraft) design decision. I think the same mostly holds for politics as well... This was certainly an unpopular and unconventional decision, which begs the question, what were Obama’s ~three-ish reasons? I propose the following:
1) Get the VA scandal off the front page
2) Force Karzai’s hand to sign the security agreement he has thus far refused.
3) Begin the evacuation of Gitmo with the worst... Its easy from here.
4) Thumb his nose at the troops in the process... he traded 5 senior jihadis for one wannabe jihadi.


53 posted on 06/05/2014 9:38:45 AM PDT by leakinInTheBlueSea
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To: Tenacious 1
Obama started the Apology Policy followed by the Appeasement Policy which coincided with the Leading From Behind Policy of diplomatic puppet tricks and letter writing.

That was bolstered by “reset buttons” and “Selfies”.

BTTT for a very creative statement of the reality of the situation!

54 posted on 06/05/2014 9:49:31 AM PDT by SteamShovel
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To: txhurl

The other thing is whoever controls Afghanistan, controls the worlds biggest stash of opium/heroin. That is where the real money is. Heroin production is up, business is great. These mooks will all end up with a piece of the action.


55 posted on 06/05/2014 9:57:47 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The real goal was to strengthen the Taliban so that they could further weaken the US military by killing as many of the “psychopaths” who fight for us as possible. No doubt the last 10,000 or so sitting ducks left as we abandon Afghanistan will be some of our best, most experienced troops.


56 posted on 06/05/2014 11:48:50 AM PDT by Ragnar54 (Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
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To: Responsibility2nd; thackney

It could have been the VA scandal, but it could also have been Snowden’s list of NSA target names. If that list is real, and has the entire Supreme Court, all of Congress, and every major political official and player, it will be quite a mess.

I assumed it was coming out Saturday, to hit the Sunday Shows fresh, and Snowden’s NBC interview and Greenwald’s interview last week were just the pre-publicity.

That this hit just in time for Sunday makes me wonder if they weren’t trying to pre-empt it, but got out-foxed.


57 posted on 06/05/2014 11:58:26 AM PDT by AnonymousConservative (Why did Liberals evolve within our species? www.anonymousconservative.com)
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To: AnonymousConservative

Now when THAT list comes out, it will be be a world shaker for sure.

But it will have to come out first. Then little Barry will do something stupid and create yet another new scandal to diffuse that one.


58 posted on 06/05/2014 12:11:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Rockitz
[Truthfully, it's as if Obama were hoping to initiate an impeachment proceedings against him so that he could unify the base and bring them to the polls in November. He is truly the most divisive president ever.]

You make an interesting point. Obama is a lame duck and will likely be judged as a failure. An impeachment and trial would allow him to become a martyr in the African American community and might lead to the kind of violent insurrections that occurred in the 1960’s. Obama might then try to unite the minorities, the illegals, the underclasses and radical whites in a revolution.

59 posted on 06/05/2014 6:27:34 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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