Posted on 06/02/2014 9:55:47 PM PDT by kristinn
For all the yellow ribbons strewn across his hometown in Idaho and the gratitude expressed by his parents in an emotional visit to the White House on Saturday, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will receive a hero’s welcome when he returns to the United States after nearly five years in Taliban captivity.
From military forums across the country, a groundswell of anger is rising over the Obama administration’s silence on perhaps the most controversial question surrounding the deal that freed Bergdahl in exchange for five senior Taliban members: Was he a deserter?
So far, the U.S. government has shied away from the long-nagging question, which raged anew Monday with growing clamor on the Internet about the circumstances of Bergdahl’s disappearance from his unit’s small forward position in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009.
Military-related blogs, Twitter accounts and Facebook pages were filled with screeds from commenters accusing Bergdahl of being a “traitor” or a Taliban “collaborator.” The online publication The Daily Beast published a nearly 2,000-word first-person account by a former Army infantry officer who said he was privy to details of Bergdahl’s disappearance and who stated flatly that “he was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.”
The mother of one of six soldiers who’ve been identified as being killed in circumstances related to the search for Bergdahl was furious over the opaque handling of the case, telling Army Times that the Pentagon “really owes the parents of these fallen soldiers the truth.”
But instead of addressing the desertion issue head-on, complained many military analysts and war veterans, the Obama administration is allowing the debate to fester, only deepening the skepticism of current and former service members who demand to know how Bergdahl left his unit,...
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Clearly a Deserter wanting to go native who ran into jihad on the ground beyond his limited imagination.
“Tidal wave of fury building up,” is putting it mildly, IMHO.
And, the issue of whether he gets to keep his pay for the past 5 years is another matter, too!
I hear the Caliph is looking for a new VA chief.
What a pathetic collection of childish idiots run this White House. . beginning with the biggest adolescent punk of them all. . little Barry.
Funny, I happen to think the McClatchy papers are filled with screeds.
Have read so many differing accounts and am still putting 2 + 2 together. Discouraging that have seen very little that appears authentic or is purposeful that little to nothing is appear that can be substantiated as authentic and that is why keep coming up with 2 + 2 = 3, 5 or 6. Guess am slower than used to be.
I was just about to post that Facebook has gone bonkers over this.
F’ this bastard POS. I hope he steps on a GD landmine. A traitor scumbag whose lousy existence cost the lives of at least 5 American soldiers.
I’ve e-mailed the mayor of Hailey and am trying to coordinate local VFW members to contact Idaho VFW and get them to pledge not to get involved in any ‘hero worship ‘ for this man .
There needs to be a thorough MILITARY , non civilian , non political , public investigation . Prominently featuring the testimony of the soldiers that served with him and were a party to the days leading up to and after his disappearance . THEY KNOW and THEY should be heard , above all others
The reason the dip$hits in the Obama Admin keep running into PR buzz saws like this is that they cannot even conceive that traitors are actually bad.
Active Duty ping.
All available Patriots ought go to Hailey and hold up pictures of the soldiers who died looking for this guy.
The more I study this situation the more am coming to believe the first, second and third horses have been ridden onto the world stage. Am wondering if there has been devised a method to bring the fourth rider onto the world stage, ahead of schedule, to usher in the final three sixes?
Agreed.
Best idea have seen.
BINGO!
Major Hassan kept every dime for the five years before his trial.
I think this explains a lot:
http://news.yahoo.com/us-concluded-2010-bergdahl-walked-away-185047684—politics.html
That is king Barry to you.
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