Posted on 06/01/2014 8:06:58 PM PDT by kristinn
The sense of pride expressed by officials of the Obama administration at the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is not shared by many of those who served with him -- veterans and soldiers who call him a deserter whose "selfish act" ended up costing the lives of better men.
"I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on," said former Sergeant Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl's platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. "Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him."
Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
A reporter asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Sunday whether Bergdahl had left his post without permission or deserted -- and, if so, whether he would be punished. Hagel didn't answer directly. "Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family," he said. "Other circumstances that may develop and questions, those will be dealt with later."
Following his release from five years of captivity in Afghanistan on Saturday, Bergdahl was transferred to a military hospital in Germany.
SNIP
On August 18, 2009, Staff Sgt. Clayton Bowen and Pfc. Morris Walker were killed by an IED in the search for Bergdahl. Staff Sgt. Kurt Curtiss was killed on August 26; 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews and Pfc. Matthew Michael Martinek were killed after being attacked in Yahya Khail District on September 4; Staff Sgt. Michael Murphrey was killed September 5 by an IED at the Forward Operating Base, Sharana.
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Seems like forever ago we had a POTUS who said we would never never negotiate with terrorist. The socialist pretender in the WH, is truly one of them.
“Brutally frank article.” => With this precedent the Obama administration has made every journalist low picking fruit for any terrorists that want to do a prisoner exchange.
Now the mainstream media’s dutiful support of Obama will cost their colleagues their lives.
The audience responded with dead silence.
When Hegal said this is something we should be cheering about.. again he was met with dead silence.
Cody said it wasnt from the DOD and many soldiers just threw them away
Why would his father be working to free all the Gitmo detainees? Because he is not a Muslim or a liberal?
As Cody pointed out, who lasts 5 years as a hostage with those ruthless captors.
And as someone on FR pointed out, he sure didnt look like the Jews in the concentration camps when they were released.
“Anyone can make an anonymous comment.”
Father Berghdahl wasn’t anonymous.
He tweeted he will work to get more jihadis out of Gitmo.
And he didn’t say, “amen”...he said “ameen”, the islamic version.
Everything coming out in this case points in the same direction.
Kristinn, Zhang fei,
The above has a pic of a post by “Dan Witmer” which is the same as on that blog that Zhang linked to.
The above has a pic of a post by “Dan Witmer” which relates the story of bergdahls actions.
What about the dads tweets, and speaking in the local language?
Good. Please find out why Dad is uttering Islamic phrases in a foreign language when addressing Americans from the White House.
Cody?
Cody who?
I caught that from Mama B as well. Sure sounded like an inside family thing. Have they all been adopted in?
CNN is actually staying on this and asking Admin talking heads hard questions.
Firing squad
Bowe Bergdahl should be court-martialed and if convicted, given the same treatment Eddie Slovik did. Slovik was merely a coward; Bergdahl appears to be a turncoat.
If it wasn’t from the DoD, then who WAS it from?
Hmmmm...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3162555/posts?page=84#84
Per RummyChick post, Cody said the nda’s weren’t from the DoD.
My question:
Who were they from?
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