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Bowe Bergdahl is innocent. He has suffered enough in his life. Blame which ever service accepted him in after the Voast Guard rejected him. From a very young man he was raised in a tiny Idaho town. Although a warm , gentle Mama..his father was/is judgement & a zealot. Bowe was home schooled so his exposure to "0thers" was Nile. He left home to get away from his father's odd philosophy. Bowe has slight autism. please pardon..he's innocent.

US lawmaker John Murtha today renewed his explosive charge that US soldiers killed unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the US military tried to cover it up. "This is what worries me. We're fighting a war about America's ideals and democracy's ideas and something like this happens, they try to cover it up," Pennsylvania Representative Murtha told CNN television. "It is as bad as Abu Ghraib, if not worse," Mr Murtha said. Two separate US military investigations are under way into the killings in November of some 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha. "They knew the day after this happened that...

White Feathers for Stephen Eagle FunkAt the risk of being called a liberal for relying upon a movie for a history lesson, the recent movie "Four Feathers" is about a soldier who resigns as his unit is to be sent to the Sudan to fight for Her Majesty. Three of his comrades in arms and his girlfriend give him white feathers along with their calling cards to signify their disgust with his cowardice.Whatever your thoughts about the movie (made by an anti-British Indian peacenik who lionizes early Moslem terrorists), in honor of our British friends, we should revive this tradition.Stephen...