Note: this story was from June 2012.
So... is it true?
Did we actually put Navy SEALs at risk to get this guy out????
Now I read that he was considering desertion?
ZERO bumping his chest with "Look what I did"
Unfreaking believable.
"I WAS THERE. I'm sick of all the lies. Here is the TRUTH, from someone on the ground. We were at OP Mest,Paktika Province, Afghanistan. It was a small outpost where B Co 1-501st INF (Airbone) ran operations out of, just an Infantry platoon and ANA counterparts there. The place was an Afghan graveyard. Bergdahl had been acting a little strange, telling people he wanted to "walk the earth" and kept a little journal talking about how he was meant for better things. No one thought anything about it. He was a little “out there”. Next morning he's gone. We search everywhere, and can't find him. He left his weapon, his kit, and other sensitive items. He only took some water, a compass and a knife. We find some afghan kids shortly after who saw an american walking north asking about where the taliban are. We get hits on our voice intercepter that Taliban has him, and we were close. We come to realize that the kid deserted his post, snuck out of camp and sought out Taliban… to join them. We were in a defensive position at OP Mest, where your focus is to keep people out. He knew where the blind spots were to slip out and that's what he did. It was supposed to be a 4-day mission but turned into several months of active searching. Everyone was spun up to find this guy. News outlets all over the country were putting out false information. It was hard to see, especially when we knew the truth about what happened and we lost good men trying to find him. PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Murphrey, 2LT Darryn Andrews, were all KIA from our unit who died looking for Bergdahl. Many others from various units were wounded or killed while actively looking for Bergdahl. Fighting Increased. IEDs and enemy ambushes increased. The Taliban knew that we were looking for him in high numbers and our movements were predictable. Because of Bergdahl, more men were out in danger, and more attacks on friendly camps and positions were conducted while we were out looking for him. His actions impacted the region more than anyone wants to admit. There is also no way to know what he told the Taliban: Our movements, locations, tactics, weak points on vehicles and other things for the enemy to exploit are just a few possibilities. The Government knows full well that he deserted. It looks bad and is a good propaganda piece for the Taliban. They refuse to acknowledge it. Hell they even promoted him to Sergeant which makes me sick. I feel for his family who only want their son/brother back. They don’t know the truth, or refuse to acknowledge it as well. What he did affected his family and his whole town back home, who don’t know the truth. Either way what matters is that good men died because of him. He has been lying on all those Taliban videos about everything since his “capture”. If he ever returns, he should be tried under the UCMJ for being a deserter and judged for what he did. Bergdahl is not a hero, he is not a soldier or an Infantryman. He failed his brothers. Now, sons and daughters are growing up without their fathers who died for him and he will have to face that truth someday."
The law clearly states that Congress will be notified by the Secretary of Defense before a prisoner swap in done. In addition, the law states that Congress will be assured that any prisoners being released will not return to fighting. The law has been broken by Obama and the Secretary of Defense but I am sure nothing will come of it.
This is the appetizer to the Tyrant releasing
his Blind Shiek.
America is run by al Qaeda and the Moslem Brotherhood
rather than Americans.
FU-EXEMPT Congres-in-abdication.
Now the US “negotiates” with terrorists. We are a third world nation. Obama has fundamentally changed the country. Thank you progressives...the world is so much safer with you in charge. /s
We all know the decision and timing had more to do with the VA scandal than anything else
If true this could be the basis for one of the charges of Impeachment after we win the Senate this year.God bless America.
So, President Obama trades five (5) deadly Taliban commanders from Gitmo for one US-hating Islamic sympathizer so POTUS can have a photo-op and get the VA scandal off the front pages?
Yup, that is consistent for this administration.
If story is true about this soldier being “ashamed to be an American” then we have the answer as to why Obumbler gave up so much to get him back.
America haters are Obumblers kind of folks.
We’ve been had. In more ways than one.
Gosh, I hate it when we keep getting a mish-mash of facts/stories; I still don't know what happened to the plane, whether to like/hate/be tolerant of a Snowden, or even if Hillary and Obama were lucid during Benghazi. It all gets so dang confusing...
IMHO......Obama has jumped the shark and done a USA turncoat act...putting all Americans in danger of enemy kidnapping across the world. I will lay back and watch this story unfold....for I believe there is much within it, that most Americans will not like or believe that our government did this illegal action. Time will tell, the truth will opt!!! Stay tuned!!! Benghazi, the marine held captive in Mexico, Veterans mistreated and dying, Irag lost, Afghanistan lost, the Middle East lost, Israel deserted, Iran & Syria lost.....Russia, China, India openly mock the USA!!! Who is Obama for??? Seems clesr to me...he ain’t for the USA!!!
He’ll be running for office as a democrat in no time.
When he first “was captured,” the reports said he left the encampment in the dead of night alone. After being with the enemy for five years, has he changed his mind about America?
But no matter, he gave El Bozo an opportunity to take attention from the VA scandal, as well as the opportunity to release FIVE Taliban generals, who will be back in Afghanistan running the new government when Obama bugs out. So it’s a win-win for Obama, and the lapdog media will cover this fiasco as though he is Pres. Reagan.
White House victory lap and BBQ today at noon. MSNBC will provide live coverage.
Could it be Jay Carney wanted no part of this B.S. come Monday.