Trading the Taliban Five for Bergdahl may be Obama's most brilliant chess move

The Thanks Project ^ | 6/6/2014 | Steve Berman

[lifeofgrace]

Our president plays by different rules: Rules for Radicals. This is quite long, but please read it, it can explain a lot.

[Blood of Tyrants]

He should be impeached, but Boner is afraid of him.

[Liz]

All five Gitmo terror suspects calculatedly exchanged for the release of Berghdahl were deemed in a 2008 Pentagon dossier to be ‘high risk’ for launching attacks on American interests.

AMERICANS ENDANGERED? NO BIG DEAL----DID YOU KNOW? Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, US government officials, and Muslims, in Boston called each other to offer assistance......just in case THE MUZZIES suffered backlash or threats.

REFERENCE Federal outreach to Muslim American communities is a pillar of Obama counter-terrorism strategy
Washington post | 5/25/2013 | ap / FR Posted by tobyhill

Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Muslims in Boston called each other to offer assistance. These calls were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15....

Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats. (more on FR).

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BACKSTORY: Boston Bomber brother Tamerlan worshipped at Islamic Society of Boston's mosque---built w/ strongarm sap-happy Democrat Boston Mayor Menino's govt authority. The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) near the intersection of Tremont Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard.....better known as the Roxbury mosque, has been in the works for more than 20 years.....it finally opened its doors for prayer — five years late, millions over budget, and still far from complete.

While the story of the building of the Roxbury mosque may not be worthy of a Hollywood epic, it does contain the stuff of a good television drama: (with Mayor Menino aiding and abetting) community intrigue, religious conflict, media controversy, foreign money, suspicions of extremist ties......and once-cocksure public officials, who (like Menino and then-Sen Kerry who once gave Islamics serial BJ's) have since retreated into a zone of silence.

Pretty soon they'll start whining about building a mosque close to the Boston Marathon finish line b/c Islam is all about "triumphalism" (thus the plans to build a mosque near the WTC).

And you can bet they'll get lotsa help from Democrat Obomba, Democrat Boston Mayor Menino, Democrat Secy of State Kerry, and Democrat Gov Deval Patrick----who obstructed the public's right to know---Deval ordered govt agencies not to disseminate the Tsarnaev family's hefty welfare $$haul.

STATE LEGISLATOR DEMANDED DOCUMENTS Sources who have seen the 500 pages of documents sent to the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight told News Center 5 that the entire Tsarnaev family, including (1) the two bombing suspects' parents, (2) the two suspects themselves, (3) their sisters, (4) the widow of the suspect killed, and, (5) their child -- received "every conceivable public benefit available out there." (Excerpt) Read more at wcvb.com ... 1

And wasn't it cute that the Tsarneav's buddies----"innocent" 19 y/o Kazakhstan student let into the US w/out a student visa, knew to take a jar of vaseline from Tsarneav's room---b/c it was a bomb component? Were they ever charged?

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Kerry's "credentials," presented to Ohaha when the Secy of State job became available.

[PistolPaknMama]

Wow, awesome.

[Lazamataz]

Dissuading the press and Congress from its interminable and inexorable march toward the truth in the IRS and VA scandals required something truly horrific and all-news-cycle-consuming. Short of an earthquake or other natural disaster (which I’m sure was somewhere kicked around at 1am by Obama’s close circle), Obama had to come up with something shiny, and do it fast.

Berman stole this concept from me.

[livius]

Good article. I read this morning in the WSJ that when he first started negotiating this deal with the Taliban - three years ago - they asked why he simply couldn’t go ahead and order it unilaterally even if Congress and the intelligence services didn’t approve. And, as even the Journal said, three years later, that was exactly what he did.

In fact, the Taliban got an even better deal, because they had originally been asking for only two terrorists, and he gave them five.

[ryan71]

At this point, I think the damage to him has just about maxed out and is overflowing onto all Democrats. He’s damaging the country, by design, and whatever positive results he thinks he’s getting for himself are actually more nails in the Democrat coffin. Hopefully, that turns out to be true this Fall.

[demshateGod]

Good analysis. The ability to accurately analyze 0’s motives for past actions should translate into predicting future actions. In my vague, feeble mind, I predict he’s going to do something much worse. It will be subtle, not going house to house to arrest dissidents, but it will be effectively the same. Most of us know this intuitively, but are doing nothing to stop it and will be unprepared when it happens.

[demshateGod]

That’s a good point. Prayer works!

[don-o]

Now that Bergdahl’s home, Obama controls the information flow. It works to his advantage for the details of Bergdahl’s betrayal to leak out of the DoD.

True, to some extent. But, I am certain he did not see the troops arising as they have to bring forth their testimony of the truth.

I don't think he saw Di Fi going rogue, either.

Overall, it's a good article. Thanks for posting it.

[ryan71]

“He should be impeached, but Boner is afraid of him.”

There is absolutely no situation where Republicans would pursue impeachment. The American people will not throw out a black president, fearing being called racists.

[TexasCajun]

Obama, Hillary, Rice, Kerry, Carney, the whole bunch are a bunch of unashamed liars with no morals or ethics

They do and say whatever advances their cause and deal with the fallout later.

[the anti-mahdi]

Not too long and well written, well sourced and well thought out.

At every point, every minute, every event, the muslim in the white hut does all his will.

I do not worry whether he needs medication nightly to sleep off his daily indulgence in destroying America. I just know that it is what he does and he does so with great joy and abandon.

He is a negative number, a void, a vacuum, a (no pun intended) black hole, an absence, and an abcess, a pus oozing eruption, a traitor, a homo, a muslim, a marxist, a sociopath, a serial murderer and liar, and a narcissist who is always just one rejection away from exploding.

He will split, explode; it is just a matter of time and the demons that control him will appear openly without any false facade.

Of course by then it will be too late and the ignorant among us who supported him and continue to support him will be cannon fodder for his next outrage.

Or not. I am just a cranky old bastard with nothing to do other than to aptly label the monstrosity in the White Hut.

[razorback-bert]

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[demshateGod]

The great thing about art is it communicates so much more than what’s seen. Really good art makes connections to the viewer/reader/listener/taster they didn’t know was possible; something lingering under the surface.

Your post is truly a work of art. I’m not exaggerating, it truly is great.

[adorno]

I’ve been saying the same thing for a few days, here and in Yahoo discussions.

The Berghdal trade was meant as a distraction from the many other scandals, and anybody that follows the issues can easily notice that, Benghazi and the VA and IRS scandals, are not the big headlines lately.

Like I said yesterday in some of my FR posts, and like I’ve said in posts in other forums, Obama has won the week, and the American people have lost focus of the real issues which affect our daily lives.

[the anti-mahdi]

You are too kind. I think I may toy with going over the edge at times. Boko Haram Hussein Bin Laden Obama Osama tends to piss me off.

I suspect that is so for many people.

[Lazamataz]

We need to refocus the attention on the VA and Benghazi affairs.

[Coldwater Creek]

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