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 administration’s 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 Bergdahl’s 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 Bergdahl’s 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 Beast’s 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 don’t 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 wasn’t 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 don’t understand,” Matthews continued. “Was he AWOL? And if not, why not? Why didn’t 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 don’t qualify that –”
“But didn’t he leave his unit behind?” Matthews countered. “He left his uniform behind, he left his rifle behind and he told people if he didn’t like the mission he was headed to Pakistan. What was he doing?”
What will really be interesting is if another terror attack happens and any of them are involved in it. But It’ll probably be like another Clinton/Bush deal..Clinton lets Bin-Laden go umpteen times and the second Bush takes office “OH! Look at him reading a book to those school kids! It’s all Bushs fault!”
Wait.....HASTINGS wrote a piece on him???
This deal is so bad even his liberal / Marxist base can’t deal with it....
That tells you how really bad it truly is....
I think it will get much, much worse at some point one of these five sub human slugs pull off an attack ....
Bet these guys get shot within a year or two.Our troops shouldn’t take any prisoners after this.
I stand corrected. Rice isn’t stupid. She is evil.
——This is like releasing Hess, Goering, Borrman, Streicher and Jodl instead of trying them at Nuremberg.——
I told my wife almost the exact same thing verbatim tonight...
Wait.....HASTINGS wrote a piece on him???
Ping to this post. NJCT
President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, said on ABC that Bowe Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction” and that “Sergeant Bergdahl wasn’t simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield,”
-Weekly Standard
Very likely Bergdahl joined the Taliban, and his "release" for 5 top terrorists who were picked by the very same Taliban is indeed a great victory for the enemy.
It also shows either an unbelievable naivety on the part of the POTUS or something much more sinister and undeniable.
They will topple the government in Afghanistan in no less than 24 months.
If a Democrat loses Chris Matthews, he has lost America.
(Some may remember that LBJ was claimed to have said: "If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost Middle America".)
Chris is doing what he has to do. It won’t be long before he’ll be making excuses for Obama.
You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips.
And there's no tenderness like before in your fingertips.
You're trying hard not to show it, (baby).
But baby, baby I know it...
You've lost that tinglin' feeling,
Whoa, that tinglin' feeling,
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This may be the one that breaks the camels back though.
A "former" Marine describing herself as a "former marine"? Interesting ...
If even Chris “tingling leg” Matthews can get this right, then this is a no-brainer. The Liberal Messiah traded a Taliban-loving traitor for five high-ranked members of the Taliban. That’s not negotiating with terrorists, it’s a capitulation ... or collaboration.
She did not do her homework, again.
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