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Fifth Column
Unnamed official at Landstuhl sez Bergdaul tortured.
2014-06-09
Bingo! Victimization established. Now please explain soccer matches, rifle range trips, and new shemagh [scarf] going-away gift.
"And then they turned me into a newt!"
"Really?"
"Well .. I got better."
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  And, because I'm "Unnamed," I won't be bothered by those so few pesky reporters wanting additional facts!
Posted by: Unnamed Official   2014-06-09 21:06  

#8  Bergdahlwill be lapping the Kool Aid like a pro.

Most likley through a straw. I suspect he's sedated, probably since just before the release (judging by the video.)
Posted by: Pappy   2014-06-09 18:03  

#7  You can bet the narrative and script are being well rehearsed. Bergdahl will be lapping the Kool Aid like a pro. He'll have a hammer hanging over his arse quite similar to the one hanging over General Petraeus.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-09 16:50  

#6  And if he wasn't before, he WILL BE til he gets the approved story straight. Gotta be working from the same page as the friendly talking heads.
Facts are a social construct, don't believe me, ask George Orwell.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-06-09 14:11  

#5  I agree completely. Threats are not the answer. Anyway, I'm anxiously await the HW Rose Garden reunion. Perhaps Jane Fonda, Kerry, Rice, Omar Abdel-Rahman [The Blind Sheik], and the Harlem Globe Trotters will be there as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-09 13:56  

#4  Not much of an article. A rehash of the NYT story, followed by paragraphs of the Secretary of State defending the decision and dismissing the threats.

Threats (proven or not) against the family, however, are unwarranted and condemnable. Surely one realizes that, even in Georgia. Or Colorado. Or Idaho...
Posted by: Pappy   2014-06-09 13:06  

#3  Maybe they mean he was tortured before he went walkabout? Or since he was released? Certainly not by the kindly Taliban - Religion of Peace and all that.
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-06-09 08:53  

#2  Bakhena ghwaarum [excuse me], in my native northern California, the fruit of the apple tree which we refer to as apples, does not fall too far from the tree....unless of course the tree is planted on a hillside, or caught by a passing monkey. It is now time for my Ramakrishna meditations.
Salaam.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-09 05:44  

#1  Yeah. Right.
Posted by: gorb   2014-06-09 00:18  

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