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Soldier Exchanged By Obama For 5 Taliban Captives Charged With Desertion
Back in May 2014, Obama shocked much of America when, in stark rejection of long-standing US policy not to negotiate with "terrorists", he agreed to exchange Sgt. Bowe Berghdahl for five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo. The prisoner exchange further raised eyebrows when it was suggested that Bergdahl hardly deserved such an executive action because he was captured only because he had deserted his post: a treason-worthy offense.
Naturally, the administration scrambled to defend the exchange: as Breitbart reports, back then National Security Advisor Susan Rice defended the prisoner swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on the June 1, 2014 broadcast of ABC’s “This Week” by saying Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction.”
Regarding the desertion allegations, she said Bergdahl, “served the United States with honor and distinction. And we’ll have the opportunity eventually to learn what has transpired in the past years.”
Rice also said that “assurances relating to the movement, the activities, the monitoring of those detainees [released in exchange for Bergdahl] give us confidence that they cannot and, in all likelihood, will not pose a significant risk to the United States. And that it is in our national interests that this transfer had been made.”
All of this followed what Obama's presidency has truly excelled at: a photo op.
Unfortunately, today was yet another day of humiliation for an administration whose most recent foreign "success" was arming the Yemen rebels with hundreds of millions in weapons leading to their successful expulsion of the Yemen president (and Obama ally) when earlier this afternoon, the Army announced it would officially charge Bowe Bergdahl with desertion for leaving his post in 2009, his attorney said Wednesday.
More from the WSJ reports:
Sgt. Bergdahl was notified on Wednesday that he had been charged with desertion and with misbehavior before the enemy, said Eugene Fidell, the soldier’s attorney.
The decision, set to be officially announced by the Army later Wednesday afternoon, marked the culmination of a closely scrutinized investigation of Sgt. Bergdahl, who was freed in a controversial swap for five Taliban prisoners held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Sgt. Bergdahl was captured by anti-American insurgents in 2009 after he disappeared from a small U.S. Army post in eastern Afghanistan. An Idaho native, he was shackled, beaten and forced to make propaganda videos during his five years in captivity, American officials said.
Last May, Sgt. Bergdahl was freed as part of a prisoner exchange approved by President Barack Obama that freed five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.
The release triggered a wave of outrage, particularly from Republican lawmakers and other soldiers who served with Sgt. Bergdahl at the U.S. Army post in Afghanistan when he disappeared. Soldiers who served with him have accused him of abandoning his post.
Turns out the soldiers were right. But the biggest irony: should the US Army conclude that Bergdahl deserted his post, he faces a sentence of life in prison or even the death penalty. As such, Obama's favor to the young sargeant, who may have had a long if less illustrious life as a Taliban captive, may have cost him his life.
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You pukes took an oath. You going to live up to it?
Are there no patriots left in the Marine detail, Capitol Police, or Secret Service?
Correction: the trade was 5 Taliban + 6 US soldiers who died looking for "Pvt Lyin"
He would have traded those five out of Gitmo for a dime bag of pot. He just wants them gone, regardless of the consequences.
Shall we count how many traitorous politicians and generals pushed for this? Pot, kettle, and all that shit.
The equality President. 1 American = 5 Arabs = X Mexicans = Y Europeans = ...
If Obama had a son...
... Reggie would come over to visit more often?
And what about those TERRURURURRRRRRISSSTTS?!?!?!?!?!?????!!! OH MY GURD!!?!?!?!?!?!???????????!!!!!!!!
Big fucking whoop...
They either needed to be shot or set free at the nearest radical Islam enclave (there's countless now thanks to Uncle Satan's failed foreign policy). Gitmo achieved nothing but destroy what was left of American ethics.
Makes for a great diversion though, which is the real reason why Obama did it.
I see a presidential pardon in that boy's future.
Cock sucking trator, trades 5 for trator.
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Bergdahl may get life in prison as a deserter at which point- his better shot at freedom would have been to just stay with the Taliban as a prisoner.
Good job Obama.
Was the soldier on duty at the time he went missing ? No
He is awol, absent without leave. His capture point is probably outside of approved areas to wander but he can claim he was chased. They have flexible boundaries in practice but fixed ones when questioned, don;t leave post without permission from senior officer. Usually for safety.
So this is about embarassing Obama, soldier is just proxy.
You are aware that he left a fucking note stating that he was deserting and giving up his citizenship, right? '
Please do not breed the world is awash in enough stupidity and ignorance already.
Well that makes his case a lot tougher to defend if he is the person who wrote the note and it is admissible, starting to sound like a mental disability defense.
with further research it appears there is no note only the rumor of one. Military report supports my point of view.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/world/asia/bowe-bergdahl-walked-away-b...
Still think this is more about Obama than the soldier.
Do not breed, that was uncalled for especially since you have not done one day of armed service. You might show more respect if you had, so what were you a coward or armchair warrior. I spent 8 years in the service risking my ass every day for your freedom to be both poorly informed and rude. Good luck with that.
You risked your life for our freedom? That is so looney I can't even begin to tell you. Maybe you were guarding opium fields for NY bankers in Afghanistan or helping steal oil in Iraq but you were not protecting our freedom.
Perhaps you weren't listening to Marine Major General Smedley Butler
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
"8 years in the service risking my ass every day"
Every day, really? And you never even learned the difference between an unauthorized absence (aka AWOL) and desertion?
Bingo! 6 soldiers died for this piece of shit.
Give him a fair trial.
If guilty, give him life at Fort Leavenworth.
Then give extra in house benefits to the prisoner there who has a pick axe accident on the S.O.B.'s head.
Aren't you the guy that thinks the United States and Israel are the same place?
They are not, although their governments often do act in concert to kill Americans, Christians, and Arab children.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-isis-islamic-terrorists-are-supported-b...
p.s. You get overtime when you work past 5, bro?
STFU you imbecile. You don't have a fucking clue.
I have no problem with emotional outbursts, I do them also once in a while, but inbetween the profanity one should state their point and give some backing. Just cussing all by itself is not helping your lack of arguments.
Leave this guy alone and instead charge Obummer ("My country tis the soon to be sweet land of New World Order tyranny") with desertion, specifically of desertion from the Bill of Rights of the Constitution he took an oath to protect.
~"Leave this guy alone and instead charge Obummer ("My country tis the soon to be sweet land of New World Order tyranny") with desertion, specifically of desertion from the Bill of Rights of the Constitution he took an oath to protect."~
Bullshit. You charge and convict this POS with desertion under fire, collaborating with the enemy and send him up for life, (if not execution via firing squad).
You give his Commander-In-Chief an impeachment and conviction as well, and a jail cell right next to him for dereliction of duty, treason and high crimes. If they shoot Bergdahl, execute his ass as well.
Rule of Law Bitchez. Too bad it has been extinct for decades.
Secession Anyone?
bum bum sauce
that crazy kosher cat he crazy.
some say he crackin up
udders say no dat bum bum got his foreskin rabbi sucked off.
eye say go fight the arab bum bum
spill your sauce in the desert for isra sigheil
Did your mom pound Jim Beam while you were in utero you fucking retard?
There you go again, why are you so Anti-Gentile like Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and the million Jews that turned out for his funeral lamenting the passing of a main religious leader who said...
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2013/1007/Rab...
"Goyim (gentiles, non-Jews) were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel," he said, according to the Jerusalem Post. "Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created." An "effendi" is a lord, or a master, in Arabic.
But then one is Anti-Ceramic for pointing something like that out...
FU butsauce
"We deserted some folks."
"We exchanged some folks."
"We shredded some Constitution."
Actually.....this is typical Obummer. Bergdhal had intel from his 5 years in captivity. Could even be a C.I.A. plant. But forget the conspircay theory for a moment. He still had intel. Obviously they thought it was important enough to get him out and debrief.
Which they did. And now.....comes the fucking in the anus. Glad you signed up now, Johnny Boy ?
Whatever you folks do.....do not under any circumstances.....let your children join the military. There is no honor anymore in dying for this wretched country and its bankers. You want them to die with honor ? Then die protecting hearth and home when they come looking for you and your family to join the N.W.O. or else. But not in some shit-bag, hole in the wall, human latrine such as the MENA.
...except I don't believe they are dying for the US and its bankers... much more to the truth is that they are the hired thugs of international banksters and are dying on their behalf.
http://colombiareports.co/more-than-54-colombian-girls-sexually-abuses-by-us-military-report/
at a loss for a comment.
Enough with the".. Are there no patriots ... " tough guy. What's stopping you?
Hope & EXchange
What else would you expect from a muslim president?
More hair on his woman?
It is beyond me why anyone could still be supportive of this president...lie after lie and fuck up after fuck up....I guess the Kool-aide drinkers are in deep denial.
In all my life, I've never seen a President that whenever he touches something, it turns to shit. The only plausible answer is that he despises this country so much, that he wants to ruin it any way possible.
It's all community organizers know how to do- destroy things and pit one group against another.
47% of the country still think he's doing a swell job.
Even the photo op pic is fucked up. To me, his posture and expression look the same as a dog when its dry humping someone's leg.
Two words..... Stoopid Merikuns.
Hey Doc I gotta disagree with you on that. Any population is stupid with good propaganda, govt edumacation and some fear. Look at the Norks who do an impromptu dance for the dear leader and television anchors cry and sob on camera when Kim Jong Ill died. Sheep are sheep for a reason
But people who watch honey poo poo, dancing with douches and American idiot I will whole heartedly agree classifies as stupid muricans.
Obumbler would screw up a wet dream!!!!
You're assuming this is all a screw up. I maintain it is not. It's just another brick in "fundamentally transforming America".
Agreed. If it was just incompetence, by now he would have done one or two things right, if only by accident.
The good doctor makes a valid point. I was making a simplistic comment about a much more sinister, overarching philosophy of our sorry excuse for a leader.
remember when a few months ago anyone who said this was called a racist tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist? and anyone who said people died looking for him were called nutjobs? and now it's mainstream news... the propaganda machine is a much bigger problem than any individual when treason and tyranny become trendy
Exactly!
If Obama had a son...he would look like Trayvon.
If he had ANOTHER son...
they will give him five year's back pay then execute him
And then they will posthumously award him the Medal of Honor.
Nobel Peace Prize ?
Hmmm...you might be getting into the realm of redundancy.
Does the Nobel prize committee even have any credibility remaining?
If dude can scare up some cash, he can buy a ticket on the pardon list with Corzine.
Holy shit... This guy couldn't negotiate a cat adoption properly. What a fucking dipshit.
Funny, I'd think anybody in his right mind would walk off a US military base after seeing what it's been perverted into.
No doubt your down voter boasts a 'support our troops' ribbon on the back of his car.
I'm sure the president's unbridled support of this guy will be plastered all over the MSM outlets..... Lol
OK, let me get this out. Im 58 years old, barely missed the Vietnam draft in 1975. I still stand and salute when Im alone and Im watching war heroes.
Studied Washington, Jefferson, Madison et al. Wanted to join the marines when I was 18, but dad said why, the War is over. I sometimes weep to myself when i hear the National Anthem. Having said that, I AM SO FUCKING DISGUSTED TO THE CORE of ALL that is currently the U.S. we are disgusting and I include myself. I stopped voting twenty years ago having seen that whether Dem or GOP made no diff.
I am weak for not standing up. Im such a macho cyber warrior...The chasm between US, the people of this nation at that bloated piece of SHEEIT known as US.gov is beyond belief...GOD HELP US, each and everyone !!
I have lived in D.C. since i was 8 yrs old 50 fucking years. To see it now surrounded by armed guards with AK-47 on each street corner within a mile of the Capitol is disgusting.
To see the darth vader parade of BLACK bomb proof GMC's with lights and sirens parading a loser congressman out of town is an awesomely scarey visual.
We have lost our soul. The tree needs to be watered, unfortunately I feel helpless
you don't have to do a single thing. it will fall apart all on its own soon enough.
I'm a little older than you and feel the same way. And all it would take for things to change is massive civil disobedience, don't comply. I've done my part as much as I can. I quit working just so I wouldn't pay any tax to these fuckers. I gave up on the ballot box and would prefer to see anyone actively seeking office be shot than elected. This country is a disgusting wasteland of weak. soft, entitled, lazy retards. The entire population reminds me of little robins in a nest with their mouths open waiting for uncle sugar to feed them. Fuck You .Gov
You had me at the Robins in a nest. (been there as a kid, omg) When and where do we revolt? See thats the problem with a cancer (US Gov) it gets too big to deal with, youre stuck-- gotta let the body die and hopefull resurrect
Same here. I also quit working. Doesn't mean I stopped making money though. Speaking of which..........all these unemployed poeple just aren't going to crawl off to the hillside and die. No wonder all the 'destroy cash' articles are popping up. Fuck the governments. All of them.
So you were well aware of My Lai and of Kent State and should have known that Vietnam was a BS war filled with corruption - and yet you were despondent about not being old enough to get in on that action.
THAT my friend is not an attitude that did anything but facilitate the demise. You should have been tracking down every traitor at Kent State and spitting on the ground when you saw those after 1975 who volunteered in hopes of committing simular atrocities.
Hey Stumpy - let me have your contact info and I'll give you my location so you can come over and spit. Fuk you
I remember learning about the USS Liberty incident.
Does that count?
Another worthless POS spews ignorance.
Lesson at Kent State: Hey college kids, dont throw shat at armed men. Also, dont burn down KSU ROTC building. Oh yeah, dont get on busses in New York just to come down to Ohio to throw shat at men with guns . I think they were M1s or M14s. Dont riot in the city. Protest, but dont throw shat at war and riot weary National Guard. CSN&Y should have done a song "Four Hundred Stupid Students In O-HI-O"
OK - stop the weeping to yourself shit - other than that ooh rah
On par with SOLYNDRA.
If he goes to trial (a deal may likely be made) it will be after Obummer is out of office. Then it could be 5 to life depending on evidence of all charges. What happens when an if he gets back on the streets ever again would be a good guess.
Vote for no one.
What about Benghazi, and the IRS Lois Lerner scandal ?
If I made a list of the Zero Administration Obamanations, You'ld all be in need of rectal exams.
He deserted some folks while serving wih honor and distinction.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/25/flashback-w-h-stood-by-susan-rice-hono...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/politics/rice-cnn-interview/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdGe0uP7W-c
This is set up so those 5 can be released to do their bidding.
Maybe they think he was permanently turned into a terrorist and this is the only way to stop him from launching an attack.
Or maybe they knew all along that this guy was a p.o.s, but he fit an agenda.
Yeah, that too!
Two comments: Today's villain often becomes tomorrow's hero. All Guantanamo detainees deserve to be releasd on the basis of prosecutorial misconduct.
Sorry - are you seriously suggesting that the Gitmo guys include a couple of future heroes? I' m not saying that that place is right but you've lost the run of yourself there.
War is a racket.
we can thank the "monkey with the hand grenade " for gettin' him back - don't forget.
And BP negotiated for the release of the Lockerbie bomber who really wasn't ill after all. Nothing surprises me any more.
After exchanging 6 trillion dollars of debt,for a Big Mac and a large order of freedom frys,any "deal" Obomba cuts from now on,will seem like a stroke of genius
Maybe the military should implement the. "they're coming right for us", or "he's got a gun" strategy so they won't have to take prisoners.
No prisoner, no prison. It's just self defense from extremists right? Right? RIGHT?!?!?!?!
Fuck 'em. People died for this piece of shit.
If anybody died for him they also died for Barack Obama, Diane Feinstein, Hillary Clinton and George Bush. So Obama could drone civilians while golfing in Hawaii, Feinstein could enrich her husband while promoting the police state, and Bush and Clinton could wreck countries. Fuck who?
-- The Execution of Private Slovik
Eddie Slovik was drafted and was the only soldier executed in WWII for desertion (other soldiers were executed for rape and murder). There is a book and movie and an informative wiki page.
It may be that the Army is sending a message to Obama.
Everything Obama touches turns to pure shit.
Dear Mr Bergdhal,
I hope you enjoyed your freedom while here on American soil. I hope more that while in prison, after you are sentenced, those other stand up guys in Leavenworth pound your ass full of raw bacon, and somehow are able to liveleak it so your p.o.s. father can watch.
Meanwhile I hope this engages true patriots to the extent that your other father, obombya, can share a cell next to you after he is also found egregiously derelict in his duties. After you've shat out your non halal meat bacon enema, I hope those same Leavenworth boys shove it down your other fathers' throat before masking the both of you in front of a fully loaded firing squad.
Signed, Delusional Grandeur
p.s....I bet you wish you were still banging goats with your taliban butt buddies huh? Fuck you, you pos waste of flesh. either way I hope you rot in prison forever, or die by firing squad, eliminating the likelihood of your progeny desecrating what's left of this once great country I fucking served.
Outstanding rant. I will probably not go with bacon for breakfast for a while but i'll be ok
Another Obamanation from our anti-American president.
A Human Events Blogger is reporting that a mid-level banking staffer at a Malaysian bank has leaked evidence that President Obama secretly negotiated a $12.8 million personal fee for the release of the five Guantanamo Taliban detainees in exchange for army deserter, Sergeant Bo Bergdahl. It is alleged that Bergdahl was simply a convenient red-herring pawn that bolstered the plausibility of the administration's cover story and official narrative. The reverse bounty was alleged to have been wired to an untraceable bank account held in a trust by a fictitious corporation through an unnamed third party agent just days before the May 31st, 2014 release authorization. If the charges prove true, it could be grounds for an impeachable offense although with less than two years in office remaining and the lengthy burden of proving the alleged offense, any congressional action is likely to be swept aside.
My cousin's brother's sister's son's gay lover.... FFS. Your post is fuking embarrassing to gossips of all walks. Go away
At least Obama freed some friends.
Absolutely frigging hilarious!! 5 teliban for 1 deserter, lol.
OK - we covered this earlier - is this from the drinking or sober keyboard ?
I'm not really sure anymore, at what point is the change over from Sober to Drunk?, possibly I'm just Psychotic, yeah, that must be it, I'm just imagining it all, after all, what lunatic would swop terrorists for a deserter.
Two Words For You - Community Organizer
What's the charge for desertion in the Obamanation, $29/month on a two-year plan?
Since when did ZH become infected with so many statist ass-felching fuck-knuckles?
Red, White, and Blue...yeah, yeah, yeah...well fuck you too!
Current US leadership consist of incompetent and stupid "affirmative action" blacks, women, and militant lesbians.
The US economy is being intentionally destroyed; war with "non-enemies" is being prepared; weapons are donated to real enemies; and traitors, cowards, and quislings are being rewarded while courageous and principled military officers are fired, forced to resign, or court-martialed.
Fascism is being slowly introduced by a black puppet President who has had over 40,000 death threats made against him while his wife stays busy firing two White House chefs and the White House florist.
This could only happen in an alternative reality science-fiction spoof.
America can't survive on this trajectory.
string up his talaban Dad too. retired post office employee.
That picture is so wrong - Barry should be hugging/kissing the beard
Any jury would acquit, hard to find fault with deserting that war. The MICs, not so much.