So...what do you think about the Bergdahl thing?

I think the government controlled media is propagandizing this whole scene for some purpose that they want served... Its not enough that they are now propagandizing against Snowden...now it will be Bergdahl as well. Most people will be swayed by the media story that is the most powerful and influential. What the 'real truth' is doesn't have to necessarily have anything to do with it. Politicians playing mind games with us again.
Just my opinion....:indecisiveness:
 
Another stupid action by the Obama administration, this one may cost a lot of lives not to mention making the US look weak and foolish, again. By all accounts, except Bergdahl's, he was about to desert his post, or was in the act of doing so, unforgivable in my view.
 
I feel the same as his fellow soldiers after reading the email he sent to his parents 3 days before he left the base without permission.

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Bowie Bergdahl would detail his disillusionment with the Afghanistan campaign in an email to his parents three days before he went missing.

“I am sorry for everything here,” he wrote. “These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid.”

Bergdahl also complained about fellow soldiers. The battalion commander was a “conceited old fool,” he said, and the only “decent” sergeants, planning to leave the platoon “as soon as they can,” told the privates — Bergdahl then among them — “to do the same.”

“I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools,” he concluded. “I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”

http://nypost.com/2014/05/31/the-bizarre-tale-of-americas-last-known-pow/
 
And he gets treated like a hero, complete with parades welcoming him home. He needs to be in a jail cell while he awaits trial for desertion and possibly collaboration with the enemy. He was not a POW, in my opinion. He was being trained and the plan plotted for the release of FIVE major terrorists. And TA DA!! It went according to plan.

That's my thoughts on the matter.
 
I have no problem trading prisoners on Guantanamo. We should rid ourselves of that scourge, close it down and give the island back to the Cubans. As for the American sergeant swiped for, he will have to answer. A prisoner can be made to say anything his captures want him to say as we have proven on Guantunamo, so I would somewhat discopunt anything he said while in custody. I tend to believe those he served with. This will need looking into.
 
drifter said:
I have no problem trading prisoners on Guantanamo. We should rid ourselves of that scourge, close it down and give the island back to the Cubans. As for the American sergeant swiped for, he will have to answer. A prisoner can be made to say anything his captures want him to say as we have proven on Guantunamo, so I would somewhat discopunt anything he said while in custody. I tend to believe those he served with. This will need looking into.
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Bergdahl was not in custody at the time, Drifter, he was on the base when he wrote those sentiments to his parents. I definitely agree that statements made while in custody can be discounted.
 
Kaya said:
They can look into Obama releasing prisoners without going through the proper procedures while they are at it.
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So true, Kaya. I read that Pres. Obama approached Congress 2 years ago wanting to release the terrorists for Bergdahl, and both Democrats and Republicans said No. By Law he was to notify Congress 30 days ahead of his decision to trade the Terrorists for Bergdahl this time, and he didn't do it.
 
Falcon said:
I hate being shallow, but I just saw a picture of his parents. They look like a couple of kooks;

so, he must be just like them....slightly weird.
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Which is why he is a kook himself and decided to go help those the nasty americans are harming. Eye roll.

What other damages are we going to see due to the direct result of the WH breaking laws?
 
My oldest son was in the Special Forces of the Army, he served for ten years, he loved this country. He also told me not to believe everything I saw on the news, that sometimes, what we heard was a smoke screen for something else more important. At this point I see what everyone else is seeing. It will be interesting to see what develops in the next couple of years.
 
Sadly this man isn't going to have a happy homecoming with the accusation of desertion hanging over his head. WikiLeaks said he was either grabbed from a latrine or walked off and the consensus seems to be he walked off. I don't blame Obama for making the swap, yes it was a bad deal - 1 for 5, but he made the bold decision to bring him home, deserter or not, leaving him behind wasn't an option and if he had to wait the mandatory 30 days, the opportunity to save him would be lost so for me, Obama did the right thing.
 
Jackie22 said:
I agree with mellow.....I look for the 'obama is a muslim emails' to go in overdrive and congress to start impeachment hearings any day now.
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I would have liked that to happen several years ago !

However, I doubt that it will happen that Obama will be impeached; the "Little Emperor" seems to get by with about anything he pleases. Since he has stated publicly that "McCain didn't ask about his Muslim religion", and also said other similar statements, I certainly am one who thinks he is a Muslim supporter, if not one himself.

Be that as it may, this timing of arranging Bergdahl's release (and the subsequent news of his being a deserter), have come at the most convenient time for Obama to distract the American public from the VA Hospital scandal. Overnight, it has all but disappeared from the news, and our veterans are pushed onto the back burner once again.
The actual truth is, this exchange has been in the news since February (reported by Fox News), but was then kept secret until Obama was ready to use to ingratiate himself with the veterans .
However, I think that the plan backfired, since it has turned out that the "captured American hero" is not a hero at all, and also caused the death or injury of many soldiers trying to save a person that now turns out to be little more than a deserter.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...oner-swap-with-taliban-to-free-american-pow/#
 

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