Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Freed, 5 Years a Taliban Prisoner

[Dave]

On a somewhat related topic: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-w...-politics.html

Wonder how many we'll give up for these two delights.

[thvigil11]

On a somewhat related topic: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-w...-politics.html

Wonder how many we'll give up for these two delights.

Saw this earlier. Lets go hiking in a warzone. Genius.

To answer your question. It depends on what they need to distract you from next.

[hollohas]

This is one thing to me that is very telling, everybody is complicit.

Did you see the video when they first announced this deal, Barry, Bergdahls mom and dad at the WH? Barry and his mom come sauntering down the stairs arm and arm like Barry is banging the bitch and Daddy meekly to the rear.
Then when daddy starts speaking in the tongue Barry gets a big huge proud papa smile.
WTF?

Our prez willingly returned illegal combatants/terrorists to their theater of operations in a time of conflict.

That made me sick and scared at the same time.

Parents of real POW's don't stand up and praise the people that hold their sons. And if they did real American presidents wouldn't smile.

Can you imagine the parents of a released WWII POW standing next to FDR or Truman and giving a Nazi salute? Nope, me neither, because those POW's were real heros and actual prisoners.

This guy is a traitor and deserter. And his parents praise his supposed captors in another language while the POTUS smiles from ear to ear. This is scary folks.

This traitor, his parents and the POTUS are sympathizers.

[TFOGGER]

On a somewhat related topic: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-w...-politics.html

Wonder how many we'll give up for these two delights.

Can we trade Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for them, straight across? I'll even kick in a goat and a bottle of Viagra to sweeten the deal...

[RblDiver]

To answer your question. It depends on what they need to distract you from next.

This up next for "distract-them-from-this" treatment? http://twitchy.com/2014/06/04/its-th...-of-obamacare/

[Aloha_Shooter]

Can we trade Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for them, straight across? I'll even kick in a goat and a bottle of Viagra to sweeten the deal...

Hell, I'd be willing to trade them the entire population of Los Angeles for those two hikers.

[davsel]

I'm waiting to see what the rest of the "deal" contains.
There's no way we would give up 5 generals for 1 musloid deserter. There's more to it. Bergdahl is just the public excuse.

Or is dick-head and his "administration" pushing our buttons on purpose? Perhaps to get a national emergency declared before losing power? Just seems like a lot of strange is happening all at once.

/tinfoil

[TennVol]

This guy was a deserter.
Get him back to the US and prosecute him under Article 85 of the UCMJ.

[Ronin13]

Marcus Luttrell had some interesting insight into the whole ordeal:

The lone survivor of Operation Redwing in Afghanistan, Luttrell told Glenn Beck Wednesday that the Taliban did all they could not only to kill him, but to “cut [his] head off.”
“They were doing everything they could to get to me to kill me,” he said.
“That’s the part that kind of got me off-guard, was the fact that they held him,” Luttrell continued, expressing surprise that Bergdahl was kept alive this long. “They don’t normally do that.”
Luttrell said he fought to the death each day, and when he left, there weren’t “any sweet goodbyes. … It was an all-out gunfight.”
Asked about the VA scandal, Luttrell said he never speaks poorly of the president, but “it was a good job on the politicians, shucking off the VA scandal by doing the whole Bergdahl thing.”
“That provides plenty of top cover, even if it did backfire,” he added. “And releasing those [Taliban leaders] is a bad move.”
Luttrell said America is “playing with the dangerous end of the knife” with what we’ve done, saying those who believe the Taliban has been “eradicated” need to remember that organizations like the Taliban are built from the “top down, not from the bottom up.”
“So you put the brain trust in there and they recruit, build. The brains of the organization, that’s the dangerous part of it,” Luttrell said. “I can’t stress this enough – there’s going to be some bloodshed here in the future. You don’t get that passive, peaceful soul sitting in Gitmo.”
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I would say if anyone knows WTF is up on this, it would probably be Luttrell... His opinion holds quite a bit in my book. Plus there are so many guys who either were in the same unit as Bergdahl, or were part of the numerous operations conducted in the region to try and find him. I also think it's pretty telling when is squad leader (IIRC that's what he was) described before his disappearance the Taliban in the region weren't very accurate with their IEDs, then he goes missing and a matter of weeks later somehow those same IED emplacers/triggermen are extremely accurate and detonating directly under the vehicles instead of in front or to the sides. Then again, what would I know, I only did intelligence and counter-IED work over there...

[rbeau30]

This guy was a deserter.
Get him back to the US and prosecute him under Article 85 of the UCMJ.

Then stand him out back in front of a wall in front of a firing squad. After his lawful convistion of course.