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2014-06-02 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2014-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 for a US Ambassador, we have no assets to help him

for US Veterans we have no doctors to see them

but for a deserter and possibly a traitor, we will move mountains to see he is safe and sound

Posted by lord garth 2014-06-02 00:05|| 2014-06-02 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Did anyone pick up on the fact that Papa Islami said he sent several folks to Germany to see him at the hospital, and that he was supposed to listen to them and do what they say. Sounds like he has got some ACLU lawyer types already.

Posted by BigEdLB 2014-06-02 00:07|| 2014-06-02 00:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Something here isn't right. The father seems to be a collaborator type.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-02 03:53|| 2014-06-02 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4 "ashamed to be an American"

American - that was the nationality of the people who died looking for him after he went walk-about, wasn't it?

Posted by SteveS 2014-06-02 03:58|| 2014-06-02 03:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps now he can say....

'For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country'

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-02 04:03|| 2014-06-02 04:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Michelle should invite him for tea. Serve him a good Lunch.

And I bet the Taliban are laughing their asses off. He walked off his post and went over and we traded him for five ...Moslem gentleman. Thank Hussein that in his wisdom we have such a President. he's obviously the Messiah and the smartest man in the room. Why, I am getting a thrill up my leg just thinking of him. Don't you?
Check the back of your Obama Card for his picture and a brief inspirational message.

Posted by Big Thromoth3646 2014-06-02 05:38|| 2014-06-02 05:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Bowe Bergdahl will be just fine. He will lay low through the election cycle, begin interviews, book deals, guest appearances on msnbc and CNN and then talk of running for congress.

Posted by Airandee 2014-06-02 06:52|| 2014-06-02 06:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Congressman? From California? Maybe he could oust the old biddy from San Francisco.

Idaho, Sun Valley, Idaho. According to Wikipedia, Bergdahl told Fry before their deployment to Afghanistan, "If this deployment is lame, I'm just going to walk off into the mountains of Pakistan."

Posted by Bobby 2014-06-02 08:17|| 2014-06-02 08:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Isn't that called desertion in time of war? At one time I believe that would be a capital offense and a firing squad would be called for.

It's said he can no longer speak English? Has anyone ever heard of losing a language? Losing the ability to speak or hear perhaps - but a language? Perhaps someone can clarify.
I think he simply refuses to speak the dirty infidel language and it does provide a convient excuse for not answering questions.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-06-02 10:39|| 2014-06-02 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 He went AWOL and joined the enemy. Teaching the enemy how to take a cell phone and turn it into a road side bomb detonator, teaching them how to ambush his fellow soldiers, the Hussein Regime was calling him a POW. A lie. He now speaks only the Taliban language his family says. He has been and is a threat to this country.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-06-02 13:47|| 2014-06-02 13:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Sometiems I wish we were the type of country that would implant slow acting poisons into POWs we free (but know will return to hostilities despite promises). Something that would be wraith of God like in its pain.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-06-02 14:37|| 2014-06-02 14:37|| Front Page Top

#12 And Bergdahl, right back at you. if you are not tried and convicted I expect you to give up your passport and stay away from the country you loath.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-06-02 14:38|| 2014-06-02 14:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Shitbag Blue Falcon

Posted by newc 2014-06-02 15:33|| 2014-06-02 15:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Of course he's the Left's Hero. He loathes avarything the United States used to stand for.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-06-02 16:20|| 2014-06-02 16:20|| Front Page Top

#15 Miss Cleo sez that Ol' Bowe may be soon wishing he were back where camel urine frappe's are not frowned upon.

Would love to see the video of his next time going into a bar.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-02 18:43|| 2014-06-02 18:43|| Front Page Top

#16 As a true, faithful Muslim, Bergdahl would never even think of going into a bar.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-06-02 19:42|| 2014-06-02 19:42|| Front Page Top

#17 President Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, said on ABC that Bowe Bergdahl "served the United States with honor and distinction" and that "Sergeant Bergdahl wasn't simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield"

Same Susan Rice who told us that Benghazi was caused by a video.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-02 21:43|| 2014-06-02 21:43|| Front Page Top

#18 *please delete the prior*

Now that we have him back, let's hang this deserter high. It would emphasize what we value--loyalty; esprit de corps; and a commitment to bring everyone home. Because he disrespected those values, six members of his platoon, who were dedicated to those values, came home in a box.

Posted by rammer 2014-06-02 22:07|| 2014-06-02 22:07|| Front Page Top

#19 Correction. The same Susan Rice who, with full knowledge of the truth, lied (as in knowingly told a falsehood) to the American public on national TV and afterwards about the cause of Benghazi.
She is a known and proven liar.

If he did desert his post and joined the Taliban then have a very national and public trial first so everyone knows what kind of despicable being he is and the full story and cost of his actions so his name becomes a household word.
Then hang him, publically. He doesn't deserve the honor of even a firing squad. And to top it off bury him with hogs.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-06-02 22:11|| 2014-06-02 22:11|| Front Page Top

#20 Amen, Crazyfool, but don't bury him with bacon, that is too good for him. Just with the hooves and offal.

Posted by rammer 2014-06-02 22:29|| 2014-06-02 22:29|| Front Page Top

#21 So, for Obama, "honor and distinction" involves walking off your post, and deserting in time of war. OK, glad we have that straight now.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-02 22:42|| 2014-06-02 22:42|| Front Page Top

#22 OldSpook, while what you wrote was meant to be satiric, it expresses an ideal that is so, so wrong. Which of course is the point of the words you wrote.

I am truly overwrought. I hope I never meet this kid, because I would just beat him until I could no longer lift my arms.

As bad as he is, whoever is responsible for making his colleagues sign non-disclosure agreements is worse. We need to know who that political-officer was, and shame him/her into exile, after a hearty tar and feathering.

Posted by rammer 2014-06-02 23:10|| 2014-06-02 23:10|| Front Page Top

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