Posted on 07/13/2016 7:21:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump talks about the Bowe Bergdahl trade and why he is not only opposed to closing Guantanamo Bay, but wants to add more terrorists caught on the battle field to the U.S. military prison. Trump called Bergdahl the "five-for-one" traitor. Trump spoke Monday night at a campaign rally in Westfield, Indiana where he was introduced by Gov. Mike Pence, a potential choice for Vice President.
"He deserted," Trump said of Bergdahl, after describing the trade President Obama made to have him returned to the U.S. "Remember the old day, a deserter, what happened? Bang. 20 years ago, it was bang, but slowly. Ten years ago it was long prison. Today they are probably talking about nothing. That is where we've come. But I call him the five-for-one."
"So we get Bergdahl, right, a traitor. And they get five of the most vicious killers that they have, that they've been after for nine years to get them out and they bring them and they are back on the battlefield trying to kill everybody, including us," Trump said.
"This stuff is going to stop, folks. And Gitmo, we're not closing Gitmo. We're going to fill it up. We're not closing Gitmo. We're not closing Gitmo," Trump said to applause.
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Raqqa is in Syria. I wasn't aware that the U.S. was fighting in Syria.
I am not a lawyer. You asked about a battlefield starting up.
On top of that, if we want to remove ISIS, we (as part of a coalition) have to go to Raqqa. And that means boots on the ground.
As opposed to what? D.C. is full of TRAITORS and enemy combatants.
Pull up them panties.
So you expect Trump to send troops to Syria?
Neither am I. I'm not even a U.S. citizen but even with an imperfect understanding of your Constitution I can still tell when something is illegal.
Hasan belongs in Gitmo.
Either you're for the USA or you go to Gitmo.
The basis for Gitmo is POW.
Loss of citizenship should be automatic.
Why not make it official? Place this in the RNC platform as well. If TRUMP’s TALL WALL is one of the main planks, do the same for a Gitmo in keeping it open for instant refill. If not, we will be using a great many bullets to circumvent the corrupt politicians/judges who wish these animals released back into the wild of the world.
But the crime was committed on U.S. soil, so I assume it would have to go through the criminal justice system. And I think that the one or two U.S. citizens who were deemed "enemy combatants" were judged to be entitled to a trial.
Everyone in Gitmo were foreign nationals the U.S. picked up during the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. When they had hundreds of thousands of troops committed. That isn't the case now.
I’m against filling up Gitmo! The prisoners should stay in the cells only long enough to extract useful information. Then they should be executed and their carcasses fed to sharks.
Obama will hand it over to Castro!!
You show no evidence of that ability in your posts.
You seem to be here trying to insult Trump with your crude attempts to create descent .
Never heard of the Patriot Act either I assume.
But, but...NRO and Glen Beck told us he's not conservative. They like Mitt Romney.
No. What about it?
I asked a question about something Trump said. If you want to read something nefarious into that then I can't stop you.
Ping.
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