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PM Why Team Obama Was Blindsided by the Bergdahl Backlash
NRO ^ | 3 June 2014 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 06/04/2014 5:15:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Congratulations, Mr. President! And identical congrats to your sorcerer’s apprentice, National Security Adviser Susan Rice. By trying to sell him as an American hero, you’ve turned a deserter already despised by soldiers in the know into quite possibly the most-hated individual soldier in the history of our military.

I have never witnessed such outrage from our troops.

Exhibit A: Ms. Rice. In one of the most tone-deaf statements in White House history (we’re making a lot of history here), the national-security advisor, on a Sunday talk show, described Bergdahl as having served “with honor and distinction.” Those serving in uniform and those of us who served previously were already stirred up, but that jaw-dropper drove us into jihad mode.

But pity Ms. Rice. Like the president she serves, she’s a victim of her class. Nobody in the inner circle of Team Obama has served in uniform. It shows. That bit about serving with “honor and distinction” is the sort of perfunctory catch-phrase politicians briefly don as electoral armor. (“At this point in your speech, ma’am, devote one sentence to how much you honor the troops.”)

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To: glorgau
A Few Good Men....
61 posted on 06/04/2014 6:08:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan
Blindsided, my left testicle.

He saw a win/win/win:

  1. Obama got to release five deadly terrorist leaders.
  2. Obama got to get a traitorous Army deserter (who has a Muslim father) back.
  3. Obama got to hold forth another distraction from his many other scandals.

62 posted on 06/04/2014 6:08:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: rarestia

Bergdahl’s release is window dressing, misdirection, to hide the real motives, whatever they are, of this amazing episode.


63 posted on 06/04/2014 6:09:47 AM PDT by odawg
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To: fireforeffect

“He genuinely believed he was going to be praised for this. Oh, and people would forget about the VA thing.”

I thnk that’s it too. He was looking bad for negelcting the Vets, so this would counter the image of him being anti-military. Of course his feckless, bumbling staff blew it.


64 posted on 06/04/2014 6:10:08 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
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To: Sacajaweau

“He will again be promoted very shortly.”

If he’s not put under arrest pending court-martial... I put the odds of that of 60/40 in favor of arrest.


65 posted on 06/04/2014 6:10:10 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Rummyfan

66 posted on 06/04/2014 6:15:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

67 posted on 06/04/2014 6:15:53 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: rarestia
I believe this is his way of giving the Taliban their senior leaders, refreshed from a stint at Club Guantanamo, and buying him a few years with no terror attacks.
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Hmmmmm. Secret “deal”? Could be.

Taliban: cool it for two and a half years.
Obama: all prisoners released when his term ends. Guantanamo closed as promised. Nobel Peace Prize justified at long last. Peace on earth. Legacy secured.

I recommend Jack Nicholson for the Obama part in the movie. Louise Fletcher would make a perfect Taliban negotiator. Movie title: One Flew Over the White House.

68 posted on 06/04/2014 6:15:54 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Rummyfan

I see three possibilities here. Either Peters is right on and the CinC and his National Security staff and the press are fools, or the CinC is a malevolent figure fiddling the fools, or what I hope is the case, that the CinC is running one serious counter intelligence op that has some good actors and will yield up something akin to Zawahari’s head.....


69 posted on 06/04/2014 6:16:14 AM PDT by massatoosits
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To: C210N

They will make a Islamic “prophet” out of him for the USA since we don’t have anyone singing praises to allah from a soapbox


70 posted on 06/04/2014 6:17:34 AM PDT by winodog
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To: Liz

Great picture. I’m sure his Qatari benefactors will contribute to its upgrade in the fullness of time.


71 posted on 06/04/2014 6:18:58 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Viennacon

Jeff Kuhner, on WRKO Boston, said this morning that The NY Times Magazine says that since the day he took office Barry has been on a mission to release these 5 terrorists. According to Kiuhner he has been obsessed with this for 6 years.


72 posted on 06/04/2014 6:20:26 AM PDT by surrey
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To: sickoflibs

I fully believe they put her out there on Bengazi and this incident because she is BLACK so they can place the black race card and the woman card IF anyone dare criticizes her.


73 posted on 06/04/2014 6:20:28 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (Going into Politic Free Zone Momma Grizzly hibernation for a while after this week, maybe forever.)
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To: C210N
There is a theory that this is all tied in with the outing of the CIA chief in Kabul. No idea what the long game on that might be, unless he was stopping the exchange from operational perspective.
74 posted on 06/04/2014 6:21:09 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: surrey

What an irredeemable slime.


75 posted on 06/04/2014 6:24:33 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: rarestia

It’s treason! We gave back 5 senior Taliban who will now plan and lead efforts to harm the USA, while we’re still engaged with them in combat.

This is either stupid and weak leadership or treason....I’ve made up my mind considering past behavior and remarks by Obama.


76 posted on 06/04/2014 6:25:55 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: logi_cal869
"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
77 posted on 06/04/2014 6:29:01 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: logi_cal869; ChildOfThe60s; mazda77; Sacajaweau; GOPJ; sickoflibs; Grampa Dave; ken5050
.....is it more possible that elements in our military and government collaborated on
withholding the desertion reports to cause irreparable damage to the WH and RATs?....

Very possible----especially after his West Point debacle.

As the Daily Caller reported: The reception for his West Point speech was dire. The Washington Post declared that Obama had “marshaled a virtual corps of straw men,” in making an argument for an “Obama doctrine” that was at odds with every US president since the Second World War. Aside from the very serious real-world consequences, Obama’s foreign policy failure also has serious political consequences.

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POSTER'S OBSERVATIONS---The MSM tried to downplay the icy reception.... saying cadets are instructed not to interrupt the speech w/ applause. But look at the news clips----the overwhelming numbers surrounding the smallish group of grads were family and friends....who failed to applaud.

KEEP IN MIND The WH criminals have plans.....including the use of federal military force, authorized during times of "civil unrest." Only question is: how are "tolerant and compassionate" Dummycrat weenies planning on creating "unrest" so that the Chicago criminals in the WH can subdue us?

Fact is.....HE is the civilian the military needs to protect us from. After that chilly reception the narcissistic POS got at West Point, there's no question about who they'll take their orders from. Clearly, most of the military think he’s a POS; they won't take orders to go against civilians.

The POS prez is decidedly stupid---he thinks a bunch of Chicago criminals can outgun the highly-armed and sophisticated American public.

The Chi/criminals better read the Constitution----the military can commandeer the WH, the Oval Office, and its occupants in a nanosecond.

More egregiously, the Obamatons have been tinkering w/ the composition of the military to reinforce their left-wing agenda; enlistees include homos/transgenders, and other perverts, fem/lib weirdos/lesbians, illegal aliens (probably felons). These people owe their lives to the clown and will kill Americans citizens with glee.

Hardly the types the establishment military needs to wage war. The military-hating Obama's tinkering is not designed to garner applause from the military establishment.

The facts are these: Obama's incomparably stupid West Point speech signals his presidency has entered a crisis of confidence, marking an abysmal failed presidency.

78 posted on 06/04/2014 6:29:14 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Rummyfan

“...honor and distinction.”

Clown Prince nobama and his Clown Car losers see “honor and distinction” as anyone who despises the United States and our Freedoms. Clown Prince nobama and his communist minions should be exiled from this wonderful country. I hope all the complete morons who voted DIM/LIB at any level are proud of them selves. Fools...tools.


79 posted on 06/04/2014 6:29:27 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: logi_cal869
Is it more possible that things really played out this way, leading to his release, or is it more possible that elements in our military and government collaborated on withholding the desertion reports to cause irreparable damage to the WH and RATs?

SOMEONE wanted this to be a scandal. Someone who has influence over the media because the media was all over this. They didn't ignore it like they do every other Obama scandal. If this was going to be true to form it would have been nothing but a conspiracy theory among all those right wing nuts. Heck, it's doubtful they would have even reported the 5 gitmo terrorists released.

There's no way for Obama to distance himself...he took full credit and plastered his face all over it. This is almost, almost, a military coup. No military people kept their mouths shut.

80 posted on 06/04/2014 6:41:25 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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