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Comrades torn by Bergdahl conversion from Rambo to Afghans’ friend
The Australian / The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 9, 2014 | Dion Nissembaum

Posted on 06/08/2014 5:39:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

BOWE Bergdahl arrived in ­Afghanistan ready to kill. Like many soldiers heading into a war zone for the first time, the 22-year-old US army private was eager. As he and his unit prepared for battle in late 2008, he ­approached his squad leader at their Alaska military base with a memorable question.

“The first thing he said was: ‘Can I cut off the face of the first Taliban I kill and wear it like a mask?’” said Josh Korder, an army soldier who said he couldn’t ­believe what he was hearing.

The bravado didn’t last. The Private Bergdahl’s view of America’s war began to turn after his first big firefight on an Afghan mountainside in May 2009. A month later, after complaining about the army’s strategy, he disappeared from his post.

Now that Sergeant Bergdahl, 28, has been released after nearly five years in Taliban captivity — he was promoted during that time — some of his friends and fellow soldiers are speaking out on the question at the heart of the controversial prisoner exchange that freed him: why did he vanish?

“I’ve been thinking about it since the day he left,” Mr Korder said. “Where’d Bergdahl go?”

Was he trying to switch sides? Did he want to leave the war behind and become a nomad? Was he betrayed by two Afghan police officers who Mr Korder said mysteriously fled the same outpost the day Bergdahl disappeared?

The answer rests with Sergeant Bergdahl, now lying in a US military hospital bed....

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 200905; 200906; 20090630; afghanistan; bergdahl; joshkorder; obama; taliban
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“The first thing he said was: ‘Can I cut off the face of the first Taliban I kill and wear it like a mask?’”

Sounds to me like the kind of thing you'd expect from a smug hippie-minded smirk-faced a-hole who entered the military for the benefits and maybe job security and found himself inadvertently in a whole new world--one he despised and held in contempt. What better way to pimp the system than to pretend to be a super duper killer freak. Shades of Arlo Guthrie.

21 posted on 06/08/2014 6:51:25 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Baynative
OK, so Daddy Bergdahl is pimping his wife to Obama. Stranger things have happened in the rarefied confines of the White House.
22 posted on 06/08/2014 6:53:29 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: reasonisfaith

My thoughts too. I have heard the stories (for years) that he was a deserter, or worse. Then, last week I saw his father send some creepy messages to the muslim world, from the White House. The whole family needs to be watched for the rest of their lives. They are not to be trusted.


23 posted on 06/08/2014 6:57:27 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Baynative

That’s just creepy.


24 posted on 06/08/2014 6:59:14 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Baynative

How about the photo from behind, I could’ve sworn he had his arm very low on her waist, like a beaux would do, not a stranger! I haven’t seen that one posted but I know I saw it.


25 posted on 06/08/2014 8:25:36 PM PDT by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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To: Baynative

I caught those and thought it very weird - she obviously has a thing for Muslim men but you know the Mooch ain’t gonna like seeing these....


26 posted on 06/08/2014 8:35:14 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: Baynative

Maybe he’s trying to get some hetero cred?


27 posted on 06/08/2014 8:37:54 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A genuine rooty toot.


28 posted on 06/08/2014 9:28:48 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Rambo"????
Really?
BoBo was a ballerina in civilian life before entering the service.
29 posted on 06/09/2014 5:22:19 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

can’t read the article without signing up


30 posted on 06/09/2014 6:35:05 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: hinckley buzzard
"Shades of Arlo Guthrie."

Walked up to the shrink and said I wanna kill. I mean, I wanna kill. I wanna see blood, guts, gore and my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies, I mean, kill!

They should have sent Bo Burgdahl to the group W bench...
31 posted on 06/09/2014 10:34:48 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: yldstrk

Not true, just click the red X on that page and it’ll let you through. Do you think I subscribed to post it?


32 posted on 06/09/2014 11:22:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think I am over the maximum allowed articles or whateer, it will not let me by


33 posted on 06/09/2014 11:40:47 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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