Posted on 06/02/2014 5:31:30 PM PDT by servo1969
MSBNC host Chris Matthews became the first on his network to express the slightest bit of skepticism over the Obama administrations deal to trade Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantanamo Bay, with Matthews repeatedly questioning the wisdom of trading an AWOL and possibly treasonous soldier for terrorist mass murderers.
Matthews opened his program Monday with a deeply suspicious look into Bergdahls statements and actions before he went inexplicably missing from his post in the summer of 2009.
In particular, the MSNBC host highlighted portions of a piece by late Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, which revealed that Bergdahl repeatedly disparaged the U.S. military, said he was ashamed to be an American and talked of simply walk[ing] off into the mountains of Pakistan.
He also singled out as cryptic a statement by Bergdahls father claiming he was proud of how much you wanted to help the Afghan people, and what [Bergdahl] was willing to do to go to that length.
Do you have any idea what he meant there? Matthews asked The Daily Beasts Kim Dozier. Did he mean sort of leaving his post, leaving his rifle and uniform behind, heading off in the direction of Pakistan, being picked up by the Taliban? What did he mean helping the Afghan people and that process? I dont quite get that.
Is that the Afghan people they mean? Matthews continued, questioning whether Bergdahl was in fact moving to join or work with the Taliban when he was captured.
Dozier let that question hang, but spoke forcefully for the prisoner swap. In terms of why you rescue him, he was a U.S. soldier in uniform
No he wasnt in uniform, he left the uniform behind, Matthews interrupted.
He was a serving U.S. soldier Dozier tried again.
But he left his post and he said this is what I dont understand, Matthews continued. Was he AWOL? And if not, why not? Why didnt they declare him AWOL?
Matthews also expressed profound skepticism over the idea that this trade might be a prelude to a peace deal with the Taliban, after Dozier said this could possibly kick off reconciliation talks with the Taliban.
I just wonder what that could possibly women have to now be covered up, their faces have to be covered up, no more movies over there, they blow up buddhas again, he said, wondering what would happen if the Taliban gets power. Are we going back to crazy Taliban behavior? . . . What kind of deal are we striking with these people?
Liberal columnist and Marine Corps veteran Goldie Taylor was also grilled by Matthews. Does this make sense? he asked.
I think it makes sense to me, because you know, in my mind, as a former Marine, we leave no man behind. We dont qualify that
But didnt he leave his unit behind? Matthews countered. He left his uniform behind, he left his rifle behind and he told people if he didnt like the mission he was headed to Pakistan. What was he doing?
These parents are people the Marxists are unprepared to deal with.Dems can’t attack them,and I don’t think they’re going to go away anytime soon.All the parents are in a unique position to grind Obama’s ass into the ground.
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Gotcha... “The Thrill is Gone”!
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obozo is a disgusting queer. more and more people are becoming convinced of the truth of that.
does obozocare cover a “tingleostomy” ?
What about these scumbags the marxist in chief released?
These 5 were named by the Taliban as the ones they wanted out of GB.
This is like releasing Hess, Goering, Borrman, Streicher and Jodl instead of trying them at Nuremberg.
When a soldier who says he hates America mails his clothes and books to his parents and then leaves his base with nothing but a canteen of water and a flashlight, even Chris Matthews knows he is a deserter. But Obama and Susan Rice, the world’s stupidest woman, still call him “honorable” and a hero.
Disgusting.
By Hillary or her people? This could divert attention from Benghazi and onto something that could not be linked to her.
Rice was born in Washington, D.C.,[5] to Emmett J. Rice (19192011), Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve System;[5] and education policy scholar Lois (née Dickson) Fitt, currently at the Brookings Institution.[6] Her maternal grandparents were Jamaican.[7] Her parents divorced during her youth.[citation needed] She is not related to former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Rice was a three-sport athlete, student council president, and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., a private girls' day school.[8] She played point guard in basketball and directed the offense, acquiring the nickname Spo, short for "Sportin".[8]
The tingle done got corrected?
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