Posted on 06/02/2014 4:28:48 PM PDT by servo1969
A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter.
Instead, the U.S. government pursued negotiations to get him back over the following five years of his captivity — a track that led to his release over the weekend.
Bergdahl was being checked and treated Monday at a U.S. military hospital in Germany as questions mounted at home over the swap that resulted in his freedom in exchange for the release of five detainees who were sent to Qatar from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Even in the first hours of Bergdahl's handoff to U.S. special forces in eastern Afghanistan, it was clear this would not be an uncomplicated yellow-ribbon celebration. Five terrorist suspects also walked free, stirring a debate over whether the exchange would heighten the risk of other Americans being snatched as bargaining chips and whether the released detainees — several senior Taliban figures among them — would find their way back to the fight.
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The Taliban actually told us which prisoners they wanted released. If his numbers don’t go below 30%....aw, who am I kidding? They won’t drop at all. Why? Because Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction and Sarah Palin is stupid. /s
He should borrow some medals to throw over the white house fence, then he can be senator, marry a sugar momma, and become sec of state.
He should borrow some medals to throw over the white house fence, then he can be senator, marry a sugar momma, and become sec of state.
I’ve been saying exactly that. He wants the republicans to take over the senate. Then for the next two years the democrats and their friends in the media will blame everything on them. Hillary gets elected. The dumb ass voters have very short memories.
Bingo disco.
A general discharge? Are you kidding? He’s getting promoted to Staff Sgt. And I’ll bet he gets a POW medal in a Rose Garden ceremony. Then he’ll get a medical discharge with full benefits and his actions will be blamed on PTSD.
Civil War or something else that destroys America. It is what Zero’s handlers want.
Maybe Obama will appoint him next Secretary of VA.
This will get the senate in republican hands. It would only take 51 votes to remove him. The republicans could have 100 votes and they won’t do it. But don’t be surprised the republicans start running on impeachment.
The US will respond harshly? That proves we haven’t been responding harshly up to this point.
They have already destroyed America. A civil war wouldn’t hurt it anymore than it already is.
CIA station chief in Kabul outed by the white hut one week before swap...coincidence?? makes me wonder
The Fox reporting on thiis tonight has been pathetic. From O’Reilly to Greta and most especially disappointing - Megan Kelly. They act like the facts don’t matter.
More likely he is a Muslim and a Muslim sympathizer.
Changed the news cycle away from the VA scandal, didn’t it?
The media will huff and puff for about a week and then the whole story will be quietly dropped....Same thing they have done with every prior illegal act from this administration.
This quote came from the Czech Republic Observer... . Someone over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl didn’t walk away, a private who was a muslim terrorist joined his komrades and got promoted while he was in “captivity” and now exchanged for the five terrorists.
It’s okay. We lost this one, but will make it up in volume.
Will he be charged with desertion or treason?
They're possibly trying to change the story line.
Obama trading five terrorists for a drunk is easier to explain than Obama trading five terrorists for a terrorist sympathizing deserter.
Not that I think trading five terrorists for anybody is a good idea.
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