Posted on 06/03/2014 4:27:08 AM PDT by bryan999
President Obama said Tuesday he had an obligation to secure the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, regardless of the circumstances surrounding Sgt. Bergdahl’s capture by the Taliban five years ago and despite claims he’s a “deserter” who walked away from his unit.
Speaking at a news conference in Warsaw alongside Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, Mr. Obama said he, like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and FDR before him, must take every possible step to bring home American fighting men and women held in captivity at the end of a war.
U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan will cease at the end of the year, though 9,800 troops will remain there through 2015.
As the end of combat operations drew closer, the president said the White House consulted with Congress “for quite some time” about a possible prisoner exchange to retrieve Sgt. Bergdahl.
“The U.S. has always had a pretty sacred rule, and that is we don’t leave our men or women in uniform behind. And that dates back to the earlier days of our Revolution,” Mr. Obama said. “We saw an opportunity. We were concerned about Sgt. Bergdahl’s health … We seized that opportunity.”
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He seized the opportunity to get a twofer over on us by getting 5 of his good buddies out to do more harm to the US and at the same time thumbed his nose at the US Constitution and Congress. Isn’t he the proud boy.
“If we allow a President or our Government to pick and choose which Americans to retrieve, will they retrieve the ones we want or not?”
I would say that is exactly what happened.
If he does, that is implying we are technically at war. I read something yesterday that said we aren’t... Wonder if that would open up a can of worms for Obama, if the GOP cared.
Does this dunce not ever know Washington, Lincoln and FDR weren't President at the end of their wars?
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