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im thinking they have been reconditioned into reeks
 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...nce-community-investigated-bergdahls-conduct/

"A senior official confirms to Fox News that the conduct of Sgt. Bergdahl – both in his final stretch of active duty in Afghanistan and then, too, during his time when he lived among the Taliban – has been thoroughly investigated by the U.S. intelligence community and is the subject of “a major classified file.”

The Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy.

Sources also tell Fox News that many officials in the executive branch are “quite baffled” by the White House’s decision to allow the president to stand alongside Sgt. Bergdahl’s father in the Rose Garden this past weekend, given the father’s history of statements, emails and online posts."
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I wonder if Bergdahl would still rather be living with the Taliban? Sounds like there are quite of few people upset about this in the Pentagon.

Another administration official, whose duties are focused on counterterrorism, told Fox News when asked about the status of any investigations into Bergdahl's initial disappearance and his conduct over the last five years: "Everybody's looking at this. He's not going to get a free pass" in the interrogations that Bergdahl will face during his repatriation process. "He's going to have a lot of questions to answer -- a lot. Is he a hero? No."
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crandc said:
Israel has released large numbers of Hamas prisoners for even a single Isreali soldier. The sainted Ronald Reagan traded arms for hostages and used proceeds to illegally fund a war.

A lot more than 6 years ago.
Fact checking....
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Reagan didn't trade arms for hostages.

Iran held no hostages. Lebanon held 7 americans hostages. Lebanon received no arms from the USA.

Fact checking...
 
Mother of one of those who died looking for Bergdahl speaks out. I wonder if she'll get to stand by Obama's side at a press conference hailing her deceased son as a hero?

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140602/NEWS/306020055/Gold-Star-mom-guy-worth-my-son-s-life-

B]Gold Star mom: 'This guy was worth my son's life?'[/B]

Sondra Andrews’ son, 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews, is one of six soldiers killed reportedly while searching for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

The sergeant’s return to captivity has stirred “very raw emotions.”

“It gets really hurtful when I think, this guy was worth my son’s life? My son who was patriotic? Who was a true soldier? Who defended his country with his life?” Andrews told Army Times via phone on Monday. “That guy was worth that? I don’t think so.”

Andrews also was upset to hear the U.S. government agreed to release five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl’s freedom.

“I bet you anything there were soldiers killed or wounded capturing those five guys,” she said. “So what does that do for their sacrifice? They sacrificed for nothing, because they turned right around and let them go.”

Bergdahl disappeared June 30, 2009, from a base in Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan.

He and Darryn Andrews were deployed with 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.

Soldiers who say they served with Bergdahl have since spoken out on social media and in news reports that the then-Pfc. abandoned his post, wandering away from the combat outpost on his own. Many expressed anger that soldiers were killed while searching for Bergdahl.

Darryn Andrews was one of those men.

He was killed Sept. 4, 2009, when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device and a rocket-propelled grenade, according to the Defense Department notice announcing his death. He was 34.

The military told the Andrews family that their soldier died after a mission to capture a top Taliban fighter, Sondra Andrews said.

“By omission, we assumed they were just pursuing the Taliban,” she said. “Then the guys [Darryn Andrews served with] started contacting me. They said, ‘No, ma’am, we were looking for [Bergdahl].’ ”

Sondra Andrews said she’s “very angry” that the military didn’t contact the family before announcing Bergdahl’s recovery.

“They didn’t have enough respect for us to give us the consideration of letting us know, especially since Darryn was part of that mission,” she said. “As a mother, you’re like, ‘what else have they not told us?’ ”

Within hours of Bergdahl’s disappearance, her son and his soldiers went out on foot patrols to search for him, Sondra Andrews said.

“They found his gear. They knew [he’d left],” she said. “You don’t get captured and leave your gear in neat little stacks. They knew he had walked away from his post.”

Sondra Andrews said she wants to see a full investigation into Bergdahl and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and captivity.

“The military really owes the parents of these fallen soldiers the truth,” she said. “Just the fact that they’re calling that man a hero just took me to my knees.”

Sondra Andrews said she wants people to know her son was a good man and a good leader who always wanted to join the Army. Darryn Andrew’s son was just 2 years old when his father was killed. His daughter was born four months later.

“He was a wonderful father and family man, an amazing son, a great brother,” she said.
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I wonder how many civilian American lives our beloved President just put at risk by releasing these high level Taliban soldiers for this piece of shit?
 
Mediocre Man said:
I wonder how many civilian American lives our beloved President just put at risk by releasing these high level Taliban soldiers for this piece of shit?
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Do you think he gives a fuck? He had to push the VA deaths off of the news cycle.
 
What the hell is the WH thinking? The lack by the usual Obama lemmings defending this move speaks volumes to me.

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RoyToy said:
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Somebody should have told Bergdahl to not desert his post, which put his platoon mate in danger. 6 troops were ultimately killed looking for this piece of shit before the US stopped rescue missions for him in 2010. How long has the Obama administration known that the military considered him a deserter, and maybe a traitor, and stopped sending out rescue missions.
 
Anyone else think of Homeland when racing about this?

Nicholas Brody

Played by Damian Lewis, Nicholas Brody is the husband of Jessica Brody and father to Dana and Chris. He is an ex-Marine who was captured by al-Qaeda and held as a POW for eight years in Iraq. Brody, after years of brutal treatment, becomes sympathetic to Abu Nazir's cause during his captivity and agrees to return to the United States as a sleeper agent.
 
Treaty_of_Batum said:
Anyone else think of Homeland when racing about this?

Nicholas Brody

Played by Damian Lewis, Nicholas Brody is the husband of Jessica Brody and father to Dana and Chris. He is an ex-Marine who was captured by al-Qaeda and held as a POW for eight years in Iraq. Brody, after years of brutal treatment, becomes sympathetic to Abu Nazir's cause during his captivity and agrees to return to the United States as a sleeper agent.
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Unless Brody was sending emails saying he was ashamed to be an American to his parents prior to deserting, then no.

What the fuck is this about?
 
Stop watching TV, you American Idiots.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-concluded-2010-bergdahl-walked-away-185047684--politics.html

A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter.

Instead, the U.S. government pursued negotiations to get him back over the following five years of his captivity — a track that led to his release over the weekend.

Bergdahl was being checked and treated Monday at a U.S. military hospital in Germany as questions mounted at home over the swap that resulted in his freedom in exchange for the release of five detainees who were sent to Qatar from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, Cuba.

Even in the first hours of Bergdahl's handoff to U.S. special forces in eastern Afghanistan, it was clear this would not be an uncomplicated yellow-ribbon celebration. Five terrorist suspects also walked free, stirring a debate over whether the exchange would heighten the risk of other Americans being snatched as bargaining chips and whether the released detainees — several senior Taliban figures among them — would find their way back to the fight.
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Geez, now I think I see why Obama wanted to become President. To be in position to piss off as many Americans as possible as many times as possible.

Perhaps now we can put an underscore under the requirement to be a "Natural Born" citizen.

I think he would love to swap deserters for every POS in Gitmo.
 
I'm not feeling the anger on this one. W let hundreds of guys go from Gitmo. He also negotiated with the bad guys and the level of violence and threat to our personnel went down significantly.

Obama intends to tuck tail and run away by the end of the year. It seems better to me that some sort of easing of tensions with the Taliban can't hurt.

I'm also not seeing that guys out of the action for twelve years are really a threat anymore. The world has changed a lot since they saw daylight.

Talking to the enemy is how peace is achieved. Reagan sure did it. So did Nixon.
 
Looks like all the talk about Memorial Day was fake last weekend

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PapaG said:
I wonder if Bergdahl would still rather be living with the Taliban? Sounds like there are quite of few people upset about this in the Pentagon.
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Maybe he met a nice boy.

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RoyToy said:
Looks like all the talk about Memorial Day was fake last weekend

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The 6 who died seeking this deserter were honored last weekend. Now we know they died seeking someone who left them.

Do you even know what Memorial Day is about?
 
Denny Crane said:
I'm not feeling the anger on this one. W let hundreds of guys go from Gitmo. He also negotiated with the bad guys and the level of violence and threat to our personnel went down significantly.

Obama intends to tuck tail and run away by the end of the year. It seems better to me that some sort of easing of tensions with the Taliban can't hurt.

I'm also not seeing that guys out of the action for twelve years are really a threat anymore. The world has changed a lot since they saw daylight.

Talking to the enemy is how peace is achieved. Reagan sure did it. So did Nixon.
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Good point. Funny how noone seems to address the idea that those 5 Taliban guys released might actually be double agent plants working for us now.
 
riverman said:
Good point. Funny how noone seems to address the idea that those 5 Taliban guys released might actually be double agent plants working for us now.
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Having them welcomed by Taliban leadership in Qatar was to throw us all off of the scent. :MARIS61:
 
RoyToy said:
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By even saying this, you dishonor the guys I served with who died in war. There is nothing but tragedy in war casualties and it's not exclusive to this incident on Memorial Day. Many soldiers died trying to bail out some asshole in countless wars, this is not different.
 
riverman said:
By even saying this, you dishonor the guys I served with who died in war. There is nothing but tragedy in war casualties and it's not exclusive to this incident on Memorial Day. Many soldiers died trying to bail out some asshole in countless wars, this is not different.
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PapaG is the biggest chickenhawk in Portland. Every day he's outraged about a military he ran away from.

The 6 soldiers died on 5 separate operations, each of which had several purposes other than looking for him, and would have been conducted anyway. They checked worthless leads from their worthless informer network of double agents who, like all Afghans, just want them to leave and stop killing people.

Maybe the commanders who sent them out should be prosecuted. They had to send out more units after 5 had died? How stupid can you be?
 
Until this week, Republicans faked outrage that Obama hadn't freed Bergdahl. Now they fake outrage for the opposite reason. They politicize every war.

Here's an example of how every right-wing fishpaper does it. I searched FreedomOutpost.com for Bergdahl articles. Note the difference between the 5 older articles vs. the 7 this week.

http://freedomoutpost.com/?s=bowe+bergdahl

Ha ha ha! Flip flopping right-wing rag.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/o...rt-bergdahl-rot-afghanistan-provides-excuses/
 
jlprk said:
PapaG is the biggest chickenhawk in Portland. Every day he's outraged about a military he ran away from.

The 6 soldiers died on 5 separate operations, each of which had several purposes other than looking for him, and would have been conducted anyway. They checked worthless leads from their worthless informer network of double agents who, like all Afghans, just want them to leave and stop killing people.

Maybe the commanders who sent them out should be prosecuted. They had to send out more units after 5 had died? How stupid can you be?
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Your typical lightweight pap. Attack a poster, and then post a bunch of conjecture and lies. Anything to try and defend the indefensible. Hell, you even took a gigantic shit on the lives of 6 good men who by all accounts, including that of their peers, died looking for this piece of shit.

I do love how you call me a chickenhawk, and then proceed to make your own bold proclamations defending a deserter. No wonder you've never had the balls to meet any posters over the years. I actually feel bad for you. Your posts are a joke on this board, and I imagine life can't be much better for you in terms of the way your actions are viewed.
 
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jiprk and PapaG,

Good morning gentlemen. Both of you are dipping your toes into lake personal insult. Please stop.
 
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