Van Jones: Soldiers Questioning Bergdahl Story Part Of "Orchestrated Smear Campaign"

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VAN JONES: I'm Van Jones on the left. In the crossfire tonight, we have guests that disagree on the deal that freed Sergeant Bergdahl. Now, you remember the feeling you got when you first heard that we had finally gotten our last captive soldier home from Afghanistan? Remember that feeling? I do, too. Unfortunately, the Republicans want us to forget about it.

Now, I admit, there are important answers we have to answer here, but Sergeant Bergdahl isn't even out of the hospital yet and already the air waves are being filled mysteriously with former soldiers just trashing the guy. What is going on here? Well, it turns out that there are Republican operatives who are working behind the scenes to get some of those guys on television. This is an orchestrated smear campaign. The implication is that President Obama should have left a U.S. soldier to die, but if he had done that, the same Republicans would be attacking him for doing that, so the whole thing is completely outrageous.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

LOL! He’s a lying sack of whale manure who distracts and distorts facts.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

If your worldview is that everything is political his comments make complete sense.

[Coldwater Creek]

Actually, “Van” is better than his birth name. Anthony Kapel Jones

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The fact that there are precious few in the Obama administration that have EVER been in the military certainly is showing in this mess.

[jimt]

Remember: Van Jones is an avowed, out-of-the-closet communist.

Lenin was asked "What actions are moral ?"

His reply: "ANYTHING that serves the state." (emphasis mine)

Think about that.

[Big Mack]

jones is an anusrectum.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Oh..I just figured he was named Van because that was the unfortunate place his mother conceived him