Posted on 06/04/2014 10:48:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Among the most tantalizing mysteries surrounding Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s departure from his U.S. military base in 2009 is this: Was he trying to find the Taliban? Or did he simply wander away and get captured? Politicians and members of the military have criticized the Obama administration’s decision to swap five jailed Taliban leaders for Bergdahl, saying the soldier may have deserted.
Until now, few details have emerged about the circumstances of Bergdahl’s disappearance from his base. But The Washington Post has reached Afghan villagers who spotted Bergdahl shortly after he slipped away from his base. To them, it’s clear something was wrong with the American. And he seemed to be deliberately heading for Taliban strongholds, they say.
“It was very confusing to us. Why would he leave the base?” said Jamal, an elder in the village of Yusef Khel, about a half-mile from the American military installation. (Like many Afghans, he goes by only one name). “The people thought it was a covert agenda – maybe he was sent to the village by the U.S.”(continued)
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Do not be surprised if they come out and say Bergdahl was under orders to infiltrate the Taliban.
Hagel said today he doesn’t know the specifics. This is a set up so he can say “We had to wait until he was safely home before we could tell the whole story.”
He’s not in the mountains. The last I heard he was in San Antonio.
That’s not what I heard this morning on CBS. They said he hadn’t come out of his house and military was there. Not that I dispute you because the news is moving very fast and a lot of mistakes are being made.
And if you’re right, who is paying for all these plane rides? Code Pink? Us?
When you say his “house”, do you mean in Idaho?
There’s a video showing him being picked up by special forces. And I’m sure that was taken days ago.
Thanks, mel. And from what I’m hearing the white hut is *shocked* that we don’t agree with what they did.
And, yes ANYONE “has more sense than our Islamocommunist dictator, ValJar, Susan Rice and Dempsey COMBINED!
Yes, I meant Idaho. I’m getting confused. Special forces have taken him to San Antonio? To show him the Alamo, I hope.
erySadAmerican is talking about the Dad, but you’re talking about the son..at least I hope that’s it.
I was talking about the father. According to CBS this morning, he was in his home in Idaho with military. He was refusing to come out and defend his son or his nutty statements.
Perhaps I made a mistake in this or CBS did. There’s been some misinformation in all this which is to be expected.
I think a lot of people have misread the reason for the exchange of five top Taliban fighters for a deserter. Obama has wanted to begin deeper peace talks with the Taliban and they have wanted the release of these five as a sweetener for some time now. Obama saw an opening to trade Bergdahl for the five as a cover for meeting a Taliban pre-condition. I’m sure he miscalculated the pushback as the public finds out more and more on Bergdahl, but it was far less than the firestorm he would have endured had he just released them as a condition to begin talks.
He was home-schooled but couldn’t get his GED until he was 20+ which, in turn, explains why he took so long getting into the Army. And that makes the case for the low level of geniousity evident in the Bergdull house.
Oh, how I miss Andrew Breitbart.
Who, now, has the guts to do real investigative reporting on The Bergdahl Affair?
misinformation or DISinformation?
I heard he was in San Antonio on a radio talk show and don’t remember which one. Probably not true.
His parents look like old stoners
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