Obama: "I released the Taliban because Screw You."

Original Content | 6/10/2014 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

With regards to the release of five deadly Taliban generals for one deserter Islam-sympathizing US soldier, the excuse machine has become more and more ludicrous by the day.

• First Bowe Bergdahl's health was in danger.
• Next, we heard that Bergdahl was a soldier who served with honor and distinction,, so we had to rescue him.
• Next, we heard that platoon members who knew Bergdahl, and who criticizing him, were 'Swiftboating' him.
• Next, we were told that Bergdahls fellow soldiers may be psychopaths. Next, Obama fell back on the old, tired, 'racism/everyone hates me' card.
• Then, we were told by Obama that he has NO regrets for making the swap.
• Then we were told that Obama intends to make many more equally-illegal Taliban releases.
• Then we were told Congress wasn't informed of the swap because the Taliban threated to kill Bowe Bergdahl if they were informed.

It got so silly that I actually started a thread called Let's Come Up With The Dumbest Bergdahl-Swap Defense!, in which we all tried to out-do one another -- and Obama -- to come up with the stupidist, most insulting and in-your-face lies about this Taliban release.

Our Free Republic members did very well, and were very creative, but nothing can match the Obama administration. Their most recent ones are:

• White House: The Taliban Five Aren't As Bad As You Think

• ...and this one, which flies directly in the face of several of Obama's other excuses: Chuck Hagel did it.

WHAT???!?

If Chuck Hagel traded the five Taliban terrorists for one questionable US soldier, then Obama will have to redact and revise his following statements:

"I make no apologies for this trade" will have to become "Chuck Hagel makes no apologies for this trade".

"I will release these detainees whenever I see the chance" (in defiance of law), will have to become "Chuck Hagel will release these detainees and I will see it on the news and become very upset."

And finally, when Obama said that Republicans are upset at this deal because HE did it, because they don't like having a black President..... that will have to become, Republicans are upset at this deal because HAGEL did it, because they don't like having a white Secretary of Defense.

We saw the avalanche of floated excuses, sad justifications, and crazy reasons this swap 'had to happen', but as time has gone on and the excuses have gotten almost Pelosian in their insanity, I came to realize two things:

One, Obama is doing this strictly to distract from the very dangerous (to him) Benghazi scandal, in which he was transferring sophisticated US arms to terrorist enemies of the United States.... and part of the distraction ARE the very bizarre excuses...

Two, Obama released the terrorists because Screw You.

That's right. He has nothing but contempt for America and Americans, so: Screw You. That's his reason. What are you gonna do about it, punk. Screw You. And your family too.

[blueyon]

Obama, he was for Bergdahl release before he was against it..............

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Lazamataz]

Glad you enjoyed this enough to bookmark it.

[Lazamataz]

The falcon cannot hear the falconer

I don't get it.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Always enjoy your writing :)

[Mycroft Holmes]

The falcon cannot hear the falconer
I don't get it.

---

The Second Coming -W.B.Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

	Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation
	I, for one, welcome our new Cybernetic Overlords /.

[Lazamataz]

Oh yeah.

I forgot.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Oh, it's a great excuse to post it. The poem I like the best is this by Kipling.

The Gods of the Copybook Headings 

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know." 

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death." 

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, 
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; 
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, 
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die." 

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. 
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, 
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, 
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, 
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! 

Don't make me post again. Just don't.

	Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation
	I, for one, welcome our new Cybernetic Overlords /.

[Lazamataz]

"I released the Taliban because screw you." This is the only explanation that makes any sense -IMO.

I notice my phrase popping up here and there. If it starts popping up outside Free Republic, I will feel as though I have contributed to the nation's discussion, and in some small way exposed Obama for the Satanic heinous twisted squirming evil that he is.

[Lazamataz]

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Kipling knew the way of things...

[PGalt]

You are really nailing this one Laz. Thank you sir. BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH.

[GOPJ]

Did you see this one?

Dumbest Defense Yet of Bergdahl Deal?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein

Mark Jacobson may have set a new standard for dumb defenses of the Bergdahl deal. Appearing on MSNBC’s Up With Steve Kornacki today, scholar and Afghanistan veteran Jacobson suggested that opposition to the Bergdahl deal arises out of the soldier’s religion and politics. He made a mind-boggling analogy: “My parents freaked out when I went to Afghanistan both times. If I had been captured. Do I want someone to say this nice Jewish kid over in Afghanistan, a little bit liberal, not really sure if we’re going to go get him? Absolutely not.”

What?? If a soldier, whatever his religion or politics, had served, to quote Susan Rice, with “honor and distinction,” and a deal to retrieve him were on the table that wouldn’t seriously jeopardize our national security interests, can anyone conceive that we wouldn’t make it? The objections to the Bergdahl deal arise out of the very high national security price exacted in exchange for someone who seemingly was at best AWOL, if not a deserter. Giving the lie to Jacobson’s lunacy was fellow panelist Jack Jacobs, who objected to the Bergdahl deal. Jacobs, by the way, grew up a nice Jewish kid in NYC, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam. (Video below.)

[Lazamataz]

Yes. I saw it. It’s amazing. They are using Cloward-Piven overload for excuses, even.

[Lazamataz]

Thank you PGalt!

[RKBA Democrat]

Laz, Laz, Laz. Still the Pollyanna I see. :-)

[Lazamataz]

I'm pissed off.

I believe those who orchestrated Operation Chokepoint have a great plan. I will adopt it. Attack the wallet.

[RKBA Democrat]

Operation choke point is too clever by half. The underlying idea is sound....go after the wallet. But the way they approached it via the banking system was dumb. Now they’ll just force those folks to get creative in how they deal with things such as by using crowd funding, alternative currencies such as bitcoin, etc. Maybe some other folks will be inspired to do exit the banking system as well.

I’d hate to see too big to fail cronies of the uniparty lose business. Matter of fact I’d be downright despondent.

Now for a positive suggestion to honor a FReeper who has inspired me to behave better. I think I might have to try out some of those alternate currencies after all. And maybe crowd fund a gun store. It’s better than playing the useless and rigged ballot box game.