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We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night
The Daily Beast ^ | 2014-06-14 | Nathan Bradley Bethea

Posted on 06/02/2014 5:29:49 AM PDT by justlurking

For five years, soldiers have been forced to stay silent about the disappearance and search for Bergdahl. Now we can talk about what really happened.

It was June 30, 2009, and I was in the city of Sharana, the capitol of Paktika province in Afghanistan. As I stepped out of a decrepit office building into a perfect sunny day, a member of my team started talking into his radio. “Say that again,” he said. “There’s an American soldier missing?”

There was. His name was Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, the only prisoner of war in the Afghan theater of operations. His release from Taliban custody on May 31 marks the end of a nearly five-year-old story for the soldiers of his unit, the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. I served in the same battalion in Afghanistan and participated in the attempts to retrieve him throughout the summer of 2009. After we redeployed, every member of my brigade combat team received an order that we were not allowed to discuss what happened to Bergdahl for fear of endangering him. He is safe, and now it is time to speak the truth.

And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; awol; bergdahl; bobbergdahl; bowebergdahl; deserter; gitmo
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To: justlurking

I know the US military doesn’t do coups, and their commanders are all 0 cronies, but 0 is trying his hardest to make sure America’s active military and veterans suffer. I’m surprised this hasn’t boiled over by now.


21 posted on 06/02/2014 6:34:14 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: RummyChick

This is open, undeniable TREASON. We have senators running around saying 0 broke the law. If this doesn’t rouse the people, we are completely neutered. Maybe when our electricity bills hit us this summer........


22 posted on 06/02/2014 6:37:49 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: jsanders2001

I’ve heard that Obama acted inappropriate with this woman during the press conference - hands on her hips, etc.

I’m just assuming he’s trying to pretend he’s not gay.


23 posted on 06/02/2014 6:38:04 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: RummyChick

This does - at this point - look like it’s blowing up in Obama’s face. So I’ll assume the media will pretty soon shut down the story and ban Daddy Jihad from the airwaves. He has been the primary force in causing the uproar due to his incompetent and narcissistic tv appearances. He makes Cindy Sheehan look like a pro.


24 posted on 06/02/2014 6:42:15 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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25 posted on 06/02/2014 6:44:34 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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26 posted on 06/02/2014 6:46:06 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: justlurking

From the articles I have seen so, Dad seems to be a hippie nut-case, and probably instilled the same confused, ridiculous values into his son so the nut is not falling far from the tree.


27 posted on 06/02/2014 6:55:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: RummyChick
This story is growing legs, in part because of Cody's tweets

CNN is on it pretty hard as well.

28 posted on 06/02/2014 7:11:31 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: justlurking

Even the leftists are bailing on Hussein. They now know he has sunk their party good for the next several election cycles and any of their so-called policy achievements will be reversed (Dodd-Frank, Obamacare, all of the EO’s he signed).

Plus the IRS investigations will lead to prosecutions of some lowerlings who may finally step forward to indicate that it was all coordinated through Obama’s White House (RICO).


29 posted on 06/02/2014 7:18:55 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Iron Munro
If she is the wife/mother, where is her burqa?

Just sayin'................

30 posted on 06/02/2014 7:30:46 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period.)
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To: justlurking

>And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.<

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But we have our deserter back to join the ranks of the fifth columnists in America and gave up five terrorists to join the ranks of others bent on killing Americans worldwide.

Awesome lose-lose deal.


31 posted on 06/02/2014 7:31:58 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: jsanders2001

Gathering around for a little Muslim prayer.


32 posted on 06/02/2014 7:32:10 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period.)
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To: TexasCajun

Nothing like a peaceful Muslim gathering...I’m sickened.


33 posted on 06/02/2014 7:35:08 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period.)
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To: hummingbird
Has she gotten the necessary genital mutilation? I mean, if you're gonna be an American Muslim in love with Jihadism, you oughta go the Full Monty.
34 posted on 06/02/2014 7:40:31 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: justlurking

bump


35 posted on 06/02/2014 7:49:34 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: jsanders2001

Post # 4 drives me nuts when pix get posted and the individuals aren’t id. OK who’s the broad ? And who’s the dope with the beard ?


36 posted on 06/02/2014 7:56:03 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: mosesdapoet
Post # 4 drives me nuts when pix get posted and the individuals aren’t id.

Mother and father of Bowe Bergdahl, at the press conference announcing his "release".

37 posted on 06/02/2014 9:06:03 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: justlurking
Bowe Bergdahl Is the Right’s New Benghazi

As in "No Muslim Left Behind?

38 posted on 06/02/2014 9:23:19 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: mosesdapoet

Bergdahl’s lib looking mommy and papa. Didn’t label them as I thought a FRper would have instinctively known who they were...


39 posted on 06/02/2014 9:28:53 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: justlurking

> How did a PFC achieve the rank of Sgt?!
He was “promoted” after he was captured. You’ll have to ask the Army why.

Conversion to Islam. I’m surprised they didn’t promote him to Captain after getting several of his own men killed in the name of Islam...


40 posted on 06/02/2014 9:31:27 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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