[Goober911]

I read an article this morning, cannot locate it. The US had recordings of the Taliban stating he was captured while taking a crap. Or words to that effect.
These were recorded during the time shortly after he was captured.
Cannot find the article now.

[Delwin]

@Fiddledog

$1:

Switching counsel may signal a new legal strategy for Tahmooressi, who was detained March 31 after driving across the border at San Ysidro with three loaded, U.S.-registered guns and more than 400 rounds of ammunition. Under Mexico’s strict gun laws, some or all of the weapons are considered to be for the exclusive use of the Mexican military.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/may ... s-veteran/

Also Ar-15 are illegal in Mexico and California as is transporting weapons in your passenger seat etc, etc

And if this guy is Mentally ill, I really don't think he should be doing that or owning any firearms, sorry. Your service to the country doesn't put you above the law.

[Benn]

Yu can get a promotion while you are a POW?

[Delwin]

Yeah, it's quite common for soldiers and sailors to be awarded decorations or promotions posthumously as well.

[Jabberwalker]

What interests me is that they think Bergdahl was held in Pakistan all of this time.

Pakistan,

Always Pakistan. We were fighting in the wrong country. Pakistan is our actual enemy.

[N_Fiddledog]

Delwin Delwin:

@Fiddledog

$1:

Switching counsel may signal a new legal strategy for Tahmooressi, who was detained March 31 after driving across the border at San Ysidro with three loaded, U.S.-registered guns and more than 400 rounds of ammunition. Under Mexico’s strict gun laws, some or all of the weapons are considered to be for the exclusive use of the Mexican military.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/may ... s-veteran/

Also Ar-15 are illegal in Mexico and California as is transporting weapons in your passenger seat etc, etc

And if this guy is Mentally ill, I really don't think he should be doing that or owning any firearms, sorry. Your service to the country doesn't put you above the law.

Doesn't matter. Tahmooresi served honorably. Bergdahl left notes saying how much he hated America and how he planned to take off, then he disappeared, and turned up with the Taliban.

I'm backing the legal gun owner, military hero, with the PTSD who took a wrong turn over the traitor any day of the week.

You know the other imprisoned American I'd back over the deserter? That little kid who's in jail in the Sudan with his mother, because they're calling her an apostate.

Wanna tell me how she should have known better, and therefore that makes Barry so clever for trading the 5 bigwig terrorists for the deserter before he so much as had Mooch leave one of her Twitter Tweets for the kid?

[Delwin]

Could you explain how someone illegally transporting loaded weapons in a state where said weapon is illegal is somehow a legal gun owner?

[andyt]

Every gun is sacred.
Every gun is great.
If a gun is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

Every gun is wanted.
Every gun is good.
Every gun is needed
In your neighbourhood.

[N_Fiddledog]

Delwin Delwin:

Could you explain how someone illegally transporting loaded weapons in a state where said weapon is illegal is somehow a legal gun owner?

He's a legal gun owner in America.

Who we support as the better man can go to intent. Tahmooressi had no intent of breaking laws in Mexico or anywhere else.

He did not intend to break a law. Bergdahl however, wrote how he hated his country and planned to desert, then he did.

Obama broke American law by not contacting congress before signing off on the deal for the traitor. What are we gonna do about him if we're going to get outraged by lawbreakers regardless of excuse?

And what about that American kid in the Sudan? Why wasn't he a priority?

[Delwin]

OK, let's forget that he was improperly transporting the weapons and ammo, what I am saying is that even before he approached the border he was breaking the law because you cannot posses an AR-15 in California, so at what point in your mind does he stop being a legal gun owner?

[BRAH]

xerxes xerxes:

It's a hard decision to be sure. But which is worse: soldiers and civilians as potential bargaining chips? Or potential Daniel Pearls?

The reality is it's the wrong one because it's made American, Canadian Military personnel and civilians abroad more attractive to capture and hold for ransom whether that be for money of the release of prisoners, what if the Taliban kidnap a Canadian civilian and demand the release of Omar Khdar?

[N_Fiddledog]

Delwin Delwin:

OK, let's forget that he was improperly transporting the weapons and ammo, what I am saying is that even before he approached the border he was breaking the law because you cannot posses an AR-15 in California, so at what point in your mind does he stop being a legal gun owner?

Well not that it matters, but concerning the law on ARs in California...

$1:

AR-15-style rifles that are not named specifically by the Roberti-Roos or other restricted lists can be purchased in the state with some major modifications. Since these are not on the various lists of prohibited firearms, their lower receivers (the part that is legally the firearm) are referred to as "Off List Lowers"(OLL). These OLLs are very common in California, and at least several hundred thousand of them have been sold in the state since the ban went into effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15#Individual_states

But so what?

My point is there are extenuating circumstances concerning the Tahmooressi case that allow us to have sympathy for him even if he did skirt some minor statutes concerning gun safety. If we're going to say 'no, the law's the law, and that's all', then fine. You'll of course join me in calling for the impeachment of Obama who was required by law to contact congress before making deals with the Taliban.

Actually though, ya know... I have to come clean. You may do better with me now in seeking sympathy for Bergdahl.

One of my favorite spy thriller writers is explaining the background details there now as told to him by his contacts in country, and I'm finding some sympathy for the Bergdahl kid too.

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/n ... -bergdahl/

There may be more to this one than I first thought.

[N_Fiddledog]

The one linked too above is too complicated to explain. Here's how it ends though.

$1:

Only time will tell. For now, one thing is clear – it is open season on American civilians and American military personnel around-the-world.

Where President Obama failed to close Gitmo, America’s enemies may just do it for him. All they need to do is kidnap enough Americans, and they’ll have the place cleaned out in no time.

[Delwin]

Hmm that is interesting, I hope more details are released but I doubt that kind of intel is going to be released, not sure they would really want to give others the details needed to broker the deal.

I'm not saying I don't sympathize with Tahmooressi but it seems very fishy to me, he's carrying 3 loaded weapons, he "accidentally" approaches the Mexican border which is littered with signs indicating he is entering mexico, he decides not to take the turn off, and then also decides not to declare that he had the weapons on him. Now maybe this is a result of his mental disorder, in which case I have all the sympathy in the world for him but it just doesn't add up.

This is the 911 call he made to US authorities from the border:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZupO2K1tc

[BRAH]

Five of the Most Dangerous Taliban Commanders in U.S. Custody Exchanged for American Captive

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/five-most-dangerous-taliban-commanders-us-custody-released-pow-exchange_794017.html
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Bergdahl bumps VA from spotlight

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/207856-bergdahl-bumps-va-from-spotlight
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Obama's learned "Wag The Dog" impressive, most impressive.