Posted on 09/27/2014 9:48:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Army Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl was described as a hero by President Obama in a White House Rose Garden ceremony this past summer. This was nothing more than a dishonest stage-managed public relations stunt featuring the president and Bergdahl's grateful parents.
Against strong objections from some U.S. military advisers, the president released five dangerous senior Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl.
Paul Sperry of the Hoover Institution recently wrote an authoritative article on Bergdahl in the New York Post. This has “become a political powder keg for President Obama,” he said. The headline of his piece — “Is Obama whitewashing a traitor?”
The day after the Rose Garden spectacle, Susan Rice, Obama's incompetent national security adviser, said Bergdahl had “served the United States with honor and distinction.”
This was untrue. One wonders if there is any issue involving America's interests that is not made political by Obama or his toadies. Is everything a manipulated con-job? Do they ever speak truthfully, except occasionally by coincidence?
Sgt. Evan Buetow, Bergdahl's Army team leader, came forward despite a Pentagon gag order. Buetow was present when Bergdahl disappeared and knew him well. “Bergdahl is a deserter, not a hero,” he said. “He needs to answer for what he did.”
Other fellow soldiers in Bergdahl's platoon also said he deserted his post, first shipping most of his belongings home to his parents, then leaving his weapon and body armor. Taking only a compass, he went to surrender to the Taliban.
According to secret documents compiled by a high-ranking former CIA officer, acting as a contractor to the Pentagon, at various times during his five years with the Taliban, Bergdahl fraternized with his captors, converted to Islam, declared himself a “mujahid” and, at times, even carried a loaded AK-47 they had given him.
In June 2014, the Military Times cited a classified Army report saying that Bergdahl “had a history” of being AWOL from his post and had walked away “of his own free will.”
Media interest in Bergdahl has now waned. Last we knew he had been promoted to Sergeant E-5 while in captivity.
If the Army declares Bergdahl to have been a POW, he will receive generous lifetime benefits, including $2,500-$3,500 every month, tax free, as well as medical care (without a co-pay) less costly than the men and women who served honorably.
An Army investigation into Bergdahl's disappearance and conduct was to be conducted by Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, described by critics as “a yes-man.” It was to be completed by Aug. 15. It has not been. Dahl is dragging his feet for reasons unknown.
His interview with Bergdahl at Fort Sam Houston in Texas last month was described by Bergdahl's lawyers as “entirely non-confrontational.”
Sperry says he was told by a Pentagon source that a court-martial of Bergdahl, surely called for under the military's own rules, is unlikely because it would “make President Obama look bad.”
None of the loved ones of the six young paratroopers who were killed searching for Bergdahl in Paktika Province, Afghanistan — sons, brothers, husbands and fathers — was invited to a White House ceremony or received any expression of gratitude from Barack Obama or Susan Rice.
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Richard W. Carlson is a former U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles and the former director of the Voice of America.
It was zero’s way of throwing a sop to his terrorist masters.
He couldn’t trade the blind sheik for a “captured” ambassador, but he could trade five Taliban for one traitor.
And spin it to look good.
“political powder keg for President Obama”
Obama could mount a billy goat from behind standing on his desk, on national television, and the networks would paint it as ‘the forgiveness of the Ramadan goat,’ and half the country would shake it’s head and think “That disgusting !/($@ ...” while the other half nods its head and says, “They sho’ be hatin’ on him fo’ dat!”.
Demigogues love powder kegs.
Yeah, she'd say that about anyone in the Hussein administration.
Is there no limit to the disgust this anti-American degenerate can generate?
Just when we seem to have hit bedrock, he burrows deeper.
The most recent bottom for me was Obama ordering the FBI to not use the words ‘Islam’ or ‘muslim’ when investigating, uh, “workplace violence” like a (redacted) maniac sawing a co-workers head off, while (redacted) ISIS extremists recruiting openly at American mosques.
Is there no limit to the disgust this anti-American degenerate can generate?
No.
And we only know the tip of the iceberg.
No, there isn't. Just when I think they have stooped as low as I think they can, they stoop lower. Bergdahl will only face the music, if we get a conservative president elected, if we ever do get another conservative president elected that is. I am sure the rats will try to make sure that NEVER happens.
I don’t give a fat flip if the truth ‘makes the President look bad”. That only happens effectively when he IS bad. We are truly headed toward a Banana Republic Dictatorship based on the worship of a personality that does not even exist except on TV and the edited nets.
:-)
How then does the Effa Bee Eye describe muslims who seem to be focused on harming Americans, if they can’t use the words Islam or muslim? Asians? ‘The Butchers formerly known as ...’? Moojes of interest? Sand Norwegians? Oompa Loompas?
Who’s gonna call him out? Surely not the sycophant media nor the feckless GOPe.
You’re right, bro.
I'm not a legal expert. There are some who would say yes. I will defer to the legal experts.
Just wait until one of those Taliban Obama released KILLS some Americans!!!
Bowe Bergdahl, an anti-American POS AWOL traitor, is just the type of military man Zer0 loves. In fact, if Bergdahl was a flaming queer, that would be cream on the top!
Question: is Bowe Bergdahl a queer?
Too bad there aren’t any TRUE patriots serving in this administration, in the FBI or in the Secret Service.
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