Posted on 06/04/2014 9:29:41 PM PDT by kristinn
An Obama administration official has floated the idea that Bowe Bergdahl was justified in deserting his platoon in Afghanistan and joining the Taliban over disagreements with the platoon's leadership.
Brandon Friedman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the Department of Housing and Urban Development posted a series of tweets Wednesday evening in which he speculated that Bergdahl deserted over bad leadership of his platoon and that is why his fellow soldiers were smearing him.
"Here's the thing about Bergdahl and the Jump-to-Conclusions mats: What if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership? (1/5)"
" What if he grew disillusioned with what he saw, didn't trust his leadership, and walked off? Legal? No. Worthy of sympathy? Maybe. (2/5)"
" If that were the case, the soldiers in his platoon would have all the more reason to smear him publicly now. (3/5)"
" Given other examples, it's not out of the realm of possibility--and more reason to withhold judgment until after an investigation. (4/5)"
" I'm not a fan of such speculation, but this story could not be more unbalanced--with so many premature calls of "traitor." (5/5)"
Friedman's Wikipedia page says he is a decorated war veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is a veteran of the Democratic Party front group VoteVets. He joined the Obama administration in 2009 at the Veterans Administration. He left in 2012 and rejoined the administration in 2014 at HUD.
He wrote an anti-war book, and had this to say about it:
“The War I Always Wanted was recognized in 2010 by the Military Times as one of “The Best Military Books of the Decade”[12] and by Daily Kos as one of “The Best Books of the Decade.”[13]
If the Daily Kos is endorsing your book as one of the “best of the decade,” that's really all I need to know about you, your service, and your attitude towards your country.
I believe the real problem is that people don’t keep up with the news and they get their education from commie teachers and professors. My daughter is a rabid Obama supporter and don’t crap about current events or politics. just believes everything the MSM and the democrats say.
Did you send these tweets to Michelle Malkin? She’s been following/reporting on this pretty extensively.
yeah he did. Oh US Military this is what Obama and crew really think about your service. Don’t believe that BS when they say they appreciate all your sacrifices and that goes true for Hillary and her crew too.
According to Bubba - “I abhor the military and everything it stands for”. and “We don’t talk to Generals”
Actually, it was recommended by CAC too.
Obama IS a Muslim sympathizer at the least and at the worst, a Muslim himself. All one has to do, is look to EVERYTHING he has done, since DAY ONE of his presidency, to see, he ALWAYS ALWAYS sides with the Muslims, helping them, aiding them, financing them, giving them weapons and support OVER any assistance to our allies or even our OWN.
He may be a puppet to the NWO agenda and those who sit in the elite power control box. But he is worse than that. He is 100% a deviant terrorist who sits INSIDE our own government, tearing America apart from the inside out. He wants the destruction of America, our way of life, our culture, our freedoms.
That is why from day one, he (and his wife) have always talked about “fundamentally transforming” this country and that we need to change our history and change our way of thinking and that Obama is going to ask us to do things differently. It has been their goal all along.
Play the victim.
Next he’ll claim to be gay.
What kind of 5hit for brains people are running our government. Obviously none that have any idea what the military is about.
You’ll have to buy from me——I already had an order in for all the pitchforks I could get my hands on back during the brownshirt Parks/Monuments shutdown.
You know?
No, we don’t know.
What a douche
They went there and commenters at The New Yorker are already pushing this meme.
Yep.
It's been in play since the Rats turned the investigations of Communist infiltration into our State Department/Military into an investigation of "unpatriotic" actions by McCarthy/Cohn/et al. "HOW DARE YOU question the patriotism of our military..." House Committee On Un-American Activities became House Un-American Activities Committee, etc.
Play the victim.
I am just reading the Rooling Stoon article for the first time. If you haven’t read it, you have to. Funniest thing I have read in a long time. If it wasn’t so sad, it should be the next Forrest Gump movie. You just can’t make this stuff up
Someone on another thread says that if he goes to prison they could make a movie titled Sorest Rump.
LOL.
Twitchy picked this up a couple hours later in the middle of the night.
Shades of Buckhead and TankerKC...
A Great Moment in FR History.
Half of the article is typical lib *&it “troops aren’t trained, Offices are incompetent, *&it don’t work” type of bullcrap
Let him continue to spout this line, if he wishes.
It just reveals the radicalism (and utter desperation!) of those who would stridently defend Bergdahl...
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