[desertdude]

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[fifeboy]

desertdude desertdude:

http://azstarnet.com/news/blogs/fitz-blog/fitz-impeach-obama-for-leaving-an-american-behind-in-afghanistan/article_6aa17163-d75e-5f2d-89d5-f28482441c00.html#.U5ILezTTOOA.facebook

BUT...BUT...But...but...

[N_Fiddledog]

But it's a parody post from a cartoonist. Google it.

[xerxes]

This isn't made up however:

$1:

Bergdahl family gets death threats

US authorities are investigating emailed death threats to the father of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier released by the Afghan Taliban last week after five years in captivity.

Four threatening emails were being investigated, police told Reuters.

Meanwhile he is reported to have said that his captors locked him in a cage in total darkness for weeks at a time.

US opinion is divided as to whether he is a hero or a soldier who endangered his comrades by deserting his post.

On Thursday a welcoming party in the hometown of Sgt Bergdahl was cancelled.

The first of the four death threats was sent to Bob Bergdahl - Sgt Bergdahl's father - at his home near Hailey, Idaho, the town's police chief Jeff Gunter told Reuters.

He said that Mr Bergdahl received the first threat on Wednesday, the same day as a rally in Hailey celebrating Sgt Bergdahl's release was cancelled amid controversy over the circumstances of his release.

Mr Gunter said that the threatening emails were now being investigated by the FBI.

The authorities are reported to be providing security to Bob Bergdahl and his wife, Jani.

'Deteriorating health'
The details of Sgt Bergdahl's capture in 2009 remain unclear.

Some of the soldier's former comrades say that he fell into Taliban hands after deserting his post in Paktika Province.

Critics of the deal - in which five Taliban prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were released in exchange - have alleged that six US soldiers were killed in the initial efforts to locate the missing man.

They say that 30 days' notice needs to be given to Congress before Guantanamo prisoners can be transferred.

President Barack Obama has defended his decision to go ahead with the prisoner swap.

Speaking in Brussels last week at the G7 summit he said that Sgt Bergdahl's deteriorating health was a "deep concern" and "we saw an opportunity and we seized it".

Details of Sgt Bergdahl's treatment at the hands of the Taliban have meanwhile been reported by the New York Times.

He is quoted as telling medical officials that his captors imprisoned him in a metal cage in total darkness for weeks at a time as punishment for trying to escape.

It also quoted doctors as saying that while he is physically able to travel from Germany he is not yet emotionally prepared for the rigours of being reunited with his family.

[N_Fiddledog]

$1:

It would appear that the father of Bowe Bergdahl, the AWOL/deserter swapped for five bloodthirsty terrorist leaders, has been in communication with member(s) of Al Qaeda...

http://directorblue.blogspot.ca/2014/06 ... -like.html

[BRAH]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

$1:

It would appear that the father of Bowe Bergdahl, the AWOL/deserter swapped for five bloodthirsty terrorist leaders, has been in communication with member(s) of Al Qaeda...

http://directorblue.blogspot.ca/2014/06 ... -like.html

Meh, the Left will ignore that and focus on demonizing those soldiers speaking out against him being labelled a hero meanwhile top Democrats are still pissed off at Obama especially Dianne Feinstein.

[N_Fiddledog]

BRAH BRAH:

Meh, the Left will ignore that and focus on demonizing those soldiers speaking out against him being labelled a hero meanwhile top Democrats are still pissed off at Obama especially Dianne Feinstein.

Sshh...you're not supposed to mention stuff like that.

They'll be here with 5 pages of spew and personal slurs they stole borrowed from Media Matters, Gawker, Salon, Slate and Mother Jones if you admit you've been watching Fox reports like the one below.




Might get away with Bloomberg though.

No Evidence of ‘Credible Threat’ to Bergdahl: Feinstein

[BRAH]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

BRAH BRAH:

Meh, the Left will ignore that and focus on demonizing those soldiers speaking out against him being labelled a hero meanwhile top Democrats are still pissed off at Obama especially Dianne Feinstein.

Sshh...you're not supposed to mention stuff like that.

They'll be here with 5 pages of spew and personal slurs they stole borrowed from Media Matters, Gawker, Salon, Slate and Mother Jones if you admit you've been watching Fox reports like the one below.




Might get away with Bloomberg though.

No Evidence of ‘Credible Threat’ to Bergdahl: Feinstein

You mean 5 pages of bringing up what Reagan, Oliver North or Bush did. This is about how Obama broke Congressional Law which could be grounds for Impeachment which is why the Left is using Bergdahl as cannon fodder to protect him while going after the soldiers who served with him and are speaking out.

The fact Dianne Feinstein was not convinced is the icing on the cake for what a cluster fuck politically this is becoming for the Obama Administration, not even Baghdad Bob can save them.

[N_Fiddledog]

Not even the father - Taliban Bob.

[N_Fiddledog]

$1:

The wife of a disabled Afghanistan veteran who was injured while searching for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has posted a scathing message against him this week, adding a personal account to the rising protests against the negotiations with the Taliban that lead to Bergdahl's freedom.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z340a7okoi

[Delwin]

You have to remember that before all of the facts were unveiled, this was a US pow who had not been afforded due process and needed to be treated as such.

[xerxes]

That was then. This is now. It's been decided by FOX News that he and his family are actually the enemy. Which is why Obama made a deal to free him; to keep up his terrorist bona fides.

[Goober911]

And now we look at the Platoon and the Policy at that time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/us ... ml?hp&_r=0
Indeed, an internal Army investigation into the episode concluded that the platoon suffered from lapses in discipline and security in the period before Sergeant Bergdahl — a private first class at the time who was promoted while in captivity — disappeared into Paktika Province, two officials briefed on the report said.

But their problems in many ways reflected those of the Pentagon’s strategy writ large across Afghanistan at that moment of the war. The platoon was sent to a remote location with too few troops to seriously confront an increasingly aggressive insurgency, which controlled many villages in the region. The riverbeds they used as roads were often mined with improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.s; simply getting supplies or traveling back to their home operating base could be a nerve-racking ordeal.

To many of those soldiers, Sergeant Bergdahl was viewed as standoffish or eccentric, smoking a pipe instead of spitting tobacco, as so many soldiers do, and reading voraciously when others napped or watched videos. But he was not isolated from his platoon mates, some said. And while he was, like other soldiers in the platoon, often disappointed or confused by their mission in Paktika, some of his peers also said that Sergeant Bergdahl seemed enthusiastic about fighting, particularly after the platoon was ambushed several weeks before his disappearance.

“He’d complain about not being able to go on the offensive, and being attacked and not being able to return fire,” said Gerald Sutton, who knew Sergeant Bergdahl from spending time together on their tiny outpost, Observation Post Mest Malak, near the village of Yahya Khel, about 50 miles west of the Pakistani border.

[Thanos]

The important thing to remember is that the side that's trying to get Bergdahl lynched is also the side that came up with "Saddam Hussein has fully realized weapons of mass destruction and has them aimed at Main Street, USA!". They also came up with the slanders, libels, and open lies against John Kerry's service record in the Vietnam War. They invented how a national health care plan is equivalent to shipping Jews off by train to Holocaust death camps. They've spent several months now on how some mean-spirited old crank in the Nevada desert who doesn't want to pay his legal and entirely reasonable grazing fees is like, totally, equivalent to George Washington. And they also spent most of the last 18 months going on about how the Benghazi riots that tragically killed a US ambassador (with this literally being the first time ever that any of them got the slightest bit upset about something fatal happening to a gay man) were worse than 9/11.

Like Jackson Browne once wrote, I want to know who the men in the shadows are. Well, we already know who they are. We also know exactly why they're behaving this way over Bowe Bergdahl. It's just the old Potomac Two-Step once again, bombarded onto a captive populace via the machinery of cable "news", internet sleaze sites, and hate-radio programs. It's the same fucking thing all over again and, just like all the other times before, there literally is nothing at all new to see here.

[N_Fiddledog]

Delwin Delwin:

You have to remember that before all of the facts were unveiled, this was a US pow who had not been afforded due process and needed to be treated as such.

Not sure what your point is there.

Was he a POW though. Wasn't he a hostage of either Taliban terrorists or if it was the Haqqanis then a criminal organization allied with the Taliban?

Don't you have to be at war with an actual country to be a POW?

The soldiers in his outfit were under a gag order at the time, but some journalists we're coming out with details of the story. Michelle Malkin for one.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/06/05/ma ... -desertion

Then there was Michael Hastings the army bashing journalist of Rolling Stone. That one is kind of fascinating. Have you heard about it? There's this conspiracy story developing concerning that one. Hastings died under what some consider suspicious circumstances, you see. He told the gentleman Bowe-the-America-critic-deserter versus the evil army story back when, but did he know more? It's got the infowars crowd drooling.

https://news.vice.com/article/why-was-t ... e-bergdahl

I don't really have a point here either. I could make one if I knew yours. The Michael Hastings thing might be interesting though, so I thought I'd mention it.