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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.
Barack the First’s strategy is working. The druggie in our White House has made so many treasonous decisions in the past few weeks that I forgot about the Bergdahl swap and about many other treasonous decisions from previous months and previous years of his destructive reign. Is this intended to desensitize us, like when they treat allergies with daily exposure?
I hope history tells the truth about Barky, the most un-American president we have ever had.
May history tell the truth!
You know that will happen, probably sooner rather than later. The problem is, when it does, the government will be successful at hiding it from us.
The jive ass lying punk known as obammy has thrown the cia, fbi, military under the bus repeatedly..
I’m just shocked that none has taken this mooselimb fag down.
57-Star General Bergdahl is a traitor,
just like Obola and those who protect him/her/it(*)
(*)less documentation than a Syrian “rebel”.
I'm a former Marine going back to the Vietnam era and this comes as news to me ... never heard of this payout to former POW's.
Check the old man’s computer and you will likely find he has been in constant contact with the kid and his Afghan buddies via email and internet forum chat rooms since the first day he disappeared. Why else would he go out of his way to learn how to read and speak Pashto........
Oh wow! You did this so well...and so true...handshake to you!
Quote:
....”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!”........
A deserter to the Jihadists would, indeed, be a hero to the Sultan in Washington.
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I think that has already happened. One,I think, is a leader in Syria.
And fewer and fewer in the military as the purge continues.
I don’t mean to be smug, but...in the rest of the western world Susan Rice would have been turfed out of government in disgrace a long time ago.
Exactly. People should always keep in mind that Obama couldn’t do anything without the full complicity of the thoroughly corrupt MSM.
Bump
Light that candle!
There are unlit fuses all over the place, matches are cheap and we're long overdue for a party.
In my view Bergdahl is a traitor and anyone in this country up to and including the President that’s makes Bergdahl out to be a soldier who served his country well is also a traitor.
Many have known Bergdahl deserted from the day it happened and the results of an investigation a couple years after the event showed that to be the case.
For the Commander in Chief to deny that and lie to the country, then trade five high ranking terrorists for this deserter is an impeachable offense.
I agree with you, Jaz....
That SOB will get his POW status medal and all.
I wouldn’t recommend he show up at any VA hospital and give his name and last 4.
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