Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 09:26     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:America doesn't leave a soldier behind. Period.


Bergdahl deserted and renounced his American citizenship. He was no longer am American Soldier.


When you begin to embellish on a story, you have lost the argument.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 08:50     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Looks like some Republicans were off the reservation initially:

http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/republicans-delete-bowe-bergdahl-praise/
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 08:47     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Anonymous wrote:Leave no man behind! Unless, ... Obama.


The Marine in a Mexico jail is also his fault. If we had machine gun nests across the Mexican border like they have been clamoring for, a fellow soldier would have shot the guys tires out to ensure that he didn't cross the border with guns in his car.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 08:09     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Anonymous wrote:Republicans are introducing a bill today to force Bowe Bergdahi to be given back to the Taliban.


That sounds like the kind of stupid bullshit Republicans would do.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 08:08     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Leave no man behind! Unless, ... Obama.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 08:06     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Anonymous wrote:Conservatives = 60's hippies. How long before the conservatives start throwing red paint on returning soldiers and calling them baby killers?


You know nothing about Conservatives, apparently. The 60’s hippies WERE NOT conservative and ARE NOT the Conservative party of today. That would be the liberals. You must be very young.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 08:01     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Conservatives = 60's hippies. How long before the conservatives start throwing red paint on returning soldiers and calling them baby killers?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 07:58     Subject: Re:Bowe Bergdahl

Sadly there is probably some classified information we will never know which may help explain Obama's choices.






If that were the case, the administration would have shared that with Congress. They had time to bring the parents to Washington. They didn't have time to pick up the phone?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 07:45     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: The father, like any loving father, wanted his son back. He studied the captors and wanted to connect in some way to get his son. I think I read the father grew that beard to mark the time his son was a POW and and also as a way to try to connect with the Taliban and evoke sympathy to get his son released. He reportedly made videos appealing directly to the Taliban as well.

I will be following this story closely, because I like many of you am concerned about the release of those particular 5 prisoners and about the lives lost trying to save a man who may have deserted his post. Sadly there is probably some classified information we will never know which may help explain Obama's choices.


Honestly, this five prisoner thing just blows my mind. They are five people who just spent over a decade in prison. Five. Can anyone think of five Americans that absolutely critical to our war effort that their capture or release would change history? I can't. Every Al Qaeda or Taliban is a "mastermind", yet we are convinced of the incompetence of everyone who leads us. Five prisoners, get over it.


Our leaders do not go on suicide missions or plan the torture and murder of thousands of innocent people as these “gentlemen” have done.
It is not about having confidence in those that lead us. It is the fact that our enemies use “unconventional” means in order to kill innocent people.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 07:32     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Anonymous wrote: The father, like any loving father, wanted his son back. He studied the captors and wanted to connect in some way to get his son. I think I read the father grew that beard to mark the time his son was a POW and and also as a way to try to connect with the Taliban and evoke sympathy to get his son released. He reportedly made videos appealing directly to the Taliban as well.

I will be following this story closely, because I like many of you am concerned about the release of those particular 5 prisoners and about the lives lost trying to save a man who may have deserted his post. Sadly there is probably some classified information we will never know which may help explain Obama's choices.


Honestly, this five prisoner thing just blows my mind. They are five people who just spent over a decade in prison. Five. Can anyone think of five Americans that absolutely critical to our war effort that their capture or release would change history? I can't. Every Al Qaeda or Taliban is a "mastermind", yet we are convinced of the incompetence of everyone who leads us. Five prisoners, get over it.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 00:51     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Posting again to say, I am always a sucker for reading conspiracy theories and one of the theories is that Bergdahl was a spy for the US and his cover had been blown. Now at least that would make more sense to me. Here is the conspiracy theory article:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/guide-to-bowe-bergdahl-conspiracy-theories.html
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2014 00:43     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
The father, like any loving father, wanted his son back. He studied the captors and wanted to connect in some way to get his son. I think I read the father grew that beard to mark the time his son was a POW and and also as a way to try to connect with the Taliban and evoke sympathy to get his son released. He reportedly made videos appealing directly to the Taliban as well.

I will be following this story closely, because I like many of you am concerned about the release of those particular 5 prisoners and about the lives lost trying to save a man who may have deserted his post. Sadly there is probably some classified information we will never know which may help explain Obama's choices.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2014 23:14     Subject: Bowe Bergdahl
Let's think of it this way...

Would you rather the US reclaim the veteran who's a little loopy and wanders off into dangerous territory *without* his weapons, or the veteran who's a little loopy and wanders around with 3 firearms?

I know who I pick.
jsteele
Post 06/03/2014 23:11     Subject: Re:Bowe Bergdahl
Anonymous wrote:Beard or no beard- read the tweets. He's a problem.


He's a problem? Can you explain what you mean by that?
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2014 23:08     Subject: Re:Bowe Bergdahl
Anonymous wrote:And what's up with Bergdahl's father's beard? Must be some kind of radical religious nut with a big beard like that...



Oh wait.


Beard or no beard- read the tweets. He's a problem.