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Bowe Bergdahl offers tearful apology to soldiers who searched for him
CNN ^ | Oct. 30, 2017 | Emanuella Grinberg and Kellie Keesee,

Posted on 10/30/2017 9:12:30 PM PDT by Innovative

Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN)Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl teared up at his sentencing on Monday as he apologized to service members who searched for him after he deserted his outpost in Afghanistan in 2009.

"My words can't take away what people have been through," Bergdahl, 31, told an audience at his court martial that spilled into an overflow room. "I am admitting I made a horrible mistake."

Bergdahl pleaded guilty October 16 to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. His lengthy testimony began after the presiding judge rejected his attorneys' request to dismiss the case over President Trump's criticism of him during his campaign for the White House.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bergdahl; boycotttimewarner; thanksobama; timelies
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To: PJBankard

“...and they US didn’t realize he defected.”

There were factions of the US Military that were convinced he defected from the get go. He was not a big player in unit cohesion or a team soldier. The Pentagon always insisted that he was captured.


21 posted on 10/31/2017 1:58:51 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Innovative

I agree. I don’t believe he was tortured like that and chained in a cage.


22 posted on 10/31/2017 2:02:52 AM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Innovative

Effing muslims, always cry. Cannot trust them. It is the ishmaelite tradition to imitate their mother Hagar whose tears were answered by God. This is how they aim to destroy Israel and America, by crying and complaining at the UN.


23 posted on 10/31/2017 2:22:30 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Innovative

“misbehavior before the enemy”

Makes it sound like one of Bart Simpson’s pranks.

He DEFECTED to the enemy in a time of war.

Life in prison is too “good” for this trashpile whom Obama “rescued” with the release of known terrorists.


24 posted on 10/31/2017 2:39:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Innovative

>> His lengthy testimony began after the presiding judge rejected his attorneys’ request to dismiss the case over President Trump’s criticism of him during his campaign for the White House.

Because PRESIDENT Barack Hussein Obama MMM never said or did ANYTHING to bias the case in FAVOR of Mr. Bergdahl. The suspicious details of his disappearance were suppressed in the media and military. He was a known fink.


25 posted on 10/31/2017 2:41:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: lodi90

Hasn’t he said that the US is treating him worse than the Taliban (who allegedly raped him)?

FUBB


26 posted on 10/31/2017 2:42:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: a fool in paradise

It wasn’t ‘rape’ rape...


27 posted on 10/31/2017 2:46:26 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Snickering Hound

Not the best moniker to have around your neck


28 posted on 10/31/2017 2:46:54 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Innovative

Hang Him!

29 posted on 10/31/2017 2:48:42 AM PDT by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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To: Innovative

reminds me of Hanoi Jane Fonda and her confessions.


30 posted on 10/31/2017 3:40:46 AM PDT by StonyBurk
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To: Innovative

Obama’s hero!


31 posted on 10/31/2017 3:41:09 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but exempt themselves.)
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To: Innovative
"I am admitting I made a horrible mistake."

A horrible mistake is spilling black coffee on a white shag carpet, what this prick did was treason, and he should have been executed as a private, instead of being promoted to Sargent.

Another obummer failure, worst pResident in our history.

32 posted on 10/31/2017 3:52:34 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: lodi90

“I don’t think so. He’s going to Leavenworth for at least 10 years, if he gets off easy”

My guess is ten years in Leavenworth which will be reduced to five years due to his five years in “captivity”. Then, he will be eligible for parole after serving a couple of years. Then, maybe a book deal followed by a movie and he’ll be set for life.


33 posted on 10/31/2017 4:09:34 AM PDT by snoringbear (,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Snickering Hound

John Lindh (?), got 20 years I believe.


34 posted on 10/31/2017 4:15:04 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Innovative

That’s nice. Now hang him.


35 posted on 10/31/2017 4:21:53 AM PDT by islander-11
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To: Innovative

Lawyer told him to cry and act sad because it might reduce his sentence. The “judge” has already hinted that sentence will “be fair despite Trump’s comments” which means the fix is in. I say fair would be life in Leavenworth but let him live - and have loops of the testimony about those he got injured/killed playing 24/7 in his 5x5 cell.


36 posted on 10/31/2017 4:36:10 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Innovative

Now that he got that off of his chest, HANG HIM.


37 posted on 10/31/2017 4:46:36 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: McGruff
Have the Muzzie parents made any public comments on his guilty plea?


38 posted on 10/31/2017 4:50:10 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: newfreep

I thought Fox just mentioned in their report that Berghdal and his parents aren’t speaking. Also reported that he blames his dad because his dad is the one who told him to just walk away from camp. (Paraphrased).


39 posted on 10/31/2017 4:59:02 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: A Navy Vet

Yep


40 posted on 10/31/2017 5:12:10 AM PDT by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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