Posted on 08/13/2014 11:44:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A book proposal drafted by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahls platoon mates has one publisher worried it would subject President Barack Obama to criticism, Yahoo! News reports.
The proposal insinuates that Bergdahl was a premeditated deserter who put all our lives in danger, and that he was an oddball and a loner who quickly shifted from excitement over killing a Taliban leader to dreaming of getting lost in the mountains and sending his personal items home. The proposal also claims that the Taliban had improved their IED attacks against American vehicles since his desertion, and that Bergdahl was training Taliban forces, although the latter claim is unsubstantiated.
But to this senior editor of Atria Books, which is a part of Simon and Schuster, what these soldiers have to say about Bergdahl isnt as important as protecting Obama from criticism for swapping five Taliban leaders for Bergdahl.
Im not sure we can publish this book without the Right using it to their ends, Sarah Durand wrote in an e-mail to one of the soldiers agents, obtained by Yahoo! [T]he Conservatives are all over Bergdahl and using it against Obama, and my concern is that this book will have to become a kind of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry was a book that was critical of then-2004 Democrat presidential candidate John Kerrys Vietnam War record.
Another complication is that the soldiers could potentially be key witnesses in the Armys investigation in Bergdahls 2009 disappearance.
Two of the authors of the proposal claim theyre not trying to politicize the issue they just want to get the truth out.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Next, they’ll start burning books.
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