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1 posted on 02/18/2016 7:08:40 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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Oh, PLEASE!

If I were Bergdahl, I would be working hard for a Democrat/Socialist/Islamist victory in November. The military brass will have new directives regarding traitors with a Trump or Cruz or Rubio victory.

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2 posted on 02/18/2016 7:11:58 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: Mr Apple; stephenjohnbanker; SunkenCiv; spacejunkie2001; IMR 4350; rusty schucklefurd; altura; ...

People in town have heard Donald J. Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, regularly call Sergeant Bergdahl “a dirty, rotten traitor” who should be executed or simply pushed from an airplane without a parachute.

The valley that surrounds Hailey is a relatively affluent and liberal sliver in a deeply conservative state, which added to the sense of being under siege in the immediate aftermath of Sergeant Bergdahl’s release.

“There’s some really ignorant people who live some places in the West,” said Fritz Haemmerle, the mayor. “They’re very right wing, they’re very militant, they’re very uninformed and they’re people with guns and with an attitude.”

There is also far more ambivalence about Sergeant Bergdahl, who now faces a court-martial and a possible life sentence on charges of desertion and endangering troops stemming from his decision to leave his outpost in 2009, a move that led to his capture by the Taliban.

Sergeant Bergdahl, who is now 29, is not believed to have visited Hailey since his return to the United States. His only public comments have been featured in a podcast, Serial, whose second season is focused on his case. In it, Sergeant Bergdahl said he walked off his outpost in hopes of hiking to a larger base about 18 miles away to tell a general about what he considered the dangerous incompetence of his commanding officers.

Sergeant Bergdahl told the same story to Army investigators, who found it credible. Lt. Gen. Kenneth R. Dahl, the lead investigator, said at a preliminary hearing in September that Sergeant Bergdahl “had delusional expectations for his deployment. The general also said there was no evidence that Sergeant Bergdahl, who identified with John Galt, the hero in Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” intended to desert or that any soldiers had been killed while searching for him.

The brunt of the threats in Hailey were borne by a small group of women who had led the campaign to free Sergeant Bergdahl. Some knew him because “he danced with their daughters,” said Ms. Horton, the ballet teacher, who also let Sergeant Bergdahl live at her house during stretches of his teenage years when his family life was strained.
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3 posted on 02/18/2016 7:12:14 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Where is the article?


4 posted on 02/18/2016 7:14:33 AM PST by Beagle8U (Trumpanzees Lives Matter!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Is the author any relation to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?


5 posted on 02/18/2016 7:16:10 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: MarvinStinson

Bergdahl is a traitor who deserted on the field of battle, which explains why so many decent Americans call him a traitor and a deserter. As for the alleged crude bomb, I assume it was planted by the left, not by patriotic Americans. Like so many of the events they use to justify their whining and their pretense that they are the victims, the claimed bomb seems too ineffective and too convenient to be real. Liberals disgust me.


6 posted on 02/18/2016 7:17:21 AM PST by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Scalia)
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To: MarvinStinson

Bergdahl himself is a scumbag. But threats against the people in the tiw who supported him while he was missing are pretty scummy too.


7 posted on 02/18/2016 7:17:43 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: MarvinStinson
Ms. Horton, who taught Sergeant Bergdahl ballet

Ha...no wonder they kept him all those years...

a)...to teach burka ballet

b)....to instruct the ISIS on a more elegant way of beheading

c)...all of the above.

10 posted on 02/18/2016 7:20:11 AM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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To: MarvinStinson
The actual title is:

Long After Bergdahl's Release, His Hometown Is Still Under Siege

How do you suppose it got changed like that?

11 posted on 02/18/2016 7:21:23 AM PST by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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I sob for the soldiers who lost their lives having to look for this POS.


12 posted on 02/18/2016 7:27:02 AM PST by Durbin
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Typical behavior by the “Progessives” at the “NY SlIMES.


13 posted on 02/18/2016 7:30:24 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Let’s rent Bergdahl , AND HIS LEFT WING, PONYTAILED FATHER a condo at ISIS headquarters. We won’t have to pay long.


20 posted on 02/18/2016 8:27:35 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: MarvinStinson
the American soldier who was vilified as a deserter and possibly even a traitor

Is it 'vilification' if it's true?

29 posted on 02/18/2016 9:15:44 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Blaine County has Hailey, Bellevue, Ketchum and Sun Valley. Lots of celebs have homes there. Kerry does. There are some fine ranchers and people in the county, but most are libs in the towns and they make it a blue county in a sea of red every election. No surprise a traitor and deserter would come from that beginning.


42 posted on 02/18/2016 10:22:10 AM PST by eartrumpet
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Bergdahl ping.


48 posted on 02/18/2016 4:45:41 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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