Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Another Screwup

On June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl went missing from the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, serving in a remote military outpost in Paktika Province on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.
He was captured by the Taliban and imprisoned for 5 years — the only U.S. prisoner of war in the Afghan war.
The Obama administration made a deal with the Taliban. On May 31, 2014, without consulting with Congress, Obama released five prisoners from Gitmo — the U.S. detention camp for terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — in exchange for Bergdahl.
Deserter Pfc Bowe Bergdahl
Deserter Pfc Bowe Bergdahl

Here are 8 things you should know about the Bergdahl scandal:

1. OBAMA BROKE A LAW REQUIRING HIM TO CONSULT CONGRESS

The POS had signed the NDAA law in 2013, which requires him to notify Congress 30 days before releasing anyone from Guantanamo Bay.
  • House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Buck McKeon of California and Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma said Obama had “clearly violated laws which require him to notify Congress thirty days before any transfer of terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, and to explain how the threat posed by such terrorists has been substantially mitigated.” (Source: Daily Mail)
  • CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Obama “clearly broke the law. The law says 30-days’ notice. He didn’t give 30-days’ notice.” Obama’s opinion expressed in a signing statement “is not law. The law is on the books, and he didn’t follow it.” (Source: Mediaite)

2. THE 5 MEN WHO WERE RELEASED ARE SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS OF JIHADISTS

Mohammad Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Mullah Norullah Noori, Mohammed Nabi and Abdul Haq Wasiq were the most senior Afghans held at the Gitmo detention facility in Cuba, having been captured in 2001. The 5 jihadists were released to Qatar and received a hero’s welcome. A Taliban commander gloated that the exchange was the first time its “enemy,” the U.S., had “officially recognized our status. Once we confirmed the arrival of our five heroes back in Qatar, celebrations started everywhere in Afghanistan and the neighboring Pakistan.” (Source: Daily Mail)

3. THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE

  • Many of Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers — from his squad to the larger group that comprised the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division — signed nondisclosure agreements to never share any information about Bergdahl’s disappearance and the efforts to recapture him. (Source: CNN)
  • The White House “inadvertently” outed the CIA station chief in Kabul to silence him?

4. BOWE BERDAHL IS A DESERTER, NOT A HERO

  • That’s what the soldiers who had served with Bergdahl say. (CNN)
  • A soldier claims Bergdahl mailed home his valuables mid-tour. (IJReview)
  • Bergdahl had carefully planned to leave his platoon. We now know when he went “missing,” he had taken with him a soft backpack, water, knives, a notebook and writing materials, but left behind his body armor and weapons — startling, given the hostile environment around his outpost. (New York Times)
  • Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life. (New York Times)
  • An official Pentagon report concluded in 2010 that Bergdahl was a deserter — “walked away”. (Daily Mail)

5. BOWE BERGDAHL CONVERTED TO ISLAM

The Taliban claimed in 2010 that Bergdahl had converted to Islam and was teaching bomb-making to its jihadists. (Source: Jihad Watch)

6. BERGDAHL WAS ANTI-AMERICAN, COMPLAINED ABOUT FELLOW SOLDIERS, AND WANTED TO RENOUNCE U.S. CITIZENSHIP

This was reported for the Rolling Stone by the late Michael Hastings who died in a suspicious single-car accident. According to Fox News (via The Blaze), Bergdahl had written a note expressing a desire to renounce his American citizenship.

7. U.S. SOLDIERS WERE KILLED WHILE LOOKING FOR BERGDAHL

Nathan Bradley Bethea was an infantry officer in the U.S. Army from 2007 to 2014, had served in the same battalion as Bergdahl and participated in the attempts to find and rescue Bergdahl throughout the summer of 2009. Bethea writes for The Daily Beast: “For five years, soldiers have been forced to stay silent about the disappearance and search for Bergdahl . . . for fear of endangering him. He is safe, and now it is time to speak the truth. And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.”
The 7 U.S. soldiers who sacrificed their lives while looking for Bowe Berdahl are:
  1. Pfc Aaron Fairbairn
  2. Pfc Justin Casillas
  3. Pfc Morris Walker
  4. Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen
  5. Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtiss
  6. Second Lieutenant Darryn Andrews
  7. Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey

8. ROBERT BERGDAHL, BOWE’S FATHER, PRAISES ALLAH AND ISLAM

  • Like his son, Robert Bergdahl is a convert to Islam who has called for the release of the jihadists in Guantanamo. (Source: Jihad Watch)
  • Appearing in a White House news conference with the beaming POS standing by his side, the first words uttered by Robert Bergdahl were these Arabic words, “Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim,” which mean “In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Compassionate.”
~Eowyn

21 comments:

  1. Anonymous6/04/2014

    Bergdahl has ties to the Beverly community through personages liviing on Seely,but not of the same name,,,very active in 19th ward politics also,

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    1. Anonymous6/05/2014

      Please elaborate.

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    2. Anonymous6/05/2014

      Who lives on Seeley? Pray tell.

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    3. Anonymous6/05/2014

      Its all Bush's fault

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  2. Anonymous6/04/2014

    It is unclear whether Robert Bergdahl or his son have converted to Mohammedanism. A friend of his is reported as saying that Robert has not acknowledged converting. See this article at the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-father-of-released-pow-growing-a-beard-and-studying-captors-defined-the-years/2014/06/02/d8de9fcc-ea93-11e3-93d2-edd4be1f5d9e_story.html

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    1. Anonymous6/05/2014

      Irrelevant, fact is that he is a deserter.

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  3. Anonymous6/04/2014

    This is a tough one for the 19th ward given that the vast majority of male ward leaders were either draft dodgers or avoiders during the Viet Nam era. However, scores of young folks in the ward , as indicated by church bulletins ,signed on the dotted line after 9/11 and served with honor. These kids are furious with this traitor, Swede Bergdahl and his silly ole man. This administration clearly is the beginning of the end of America and sadly our neighbors supported this clown. Notice they are all strangely silent mainly in the North and Central Beverly precincts.

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  4. Anonymous6/05/2014

    According to ABC News, the 5 prisoners sent back each had the rank of general in the Taliban movement. Did anybody consider what these fellas are going to do when they get back home.

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  5. Anonymous6/05/2014

    A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP! NOTHING COULD BE MORE OBVIOUS.

    Imagine George Washington trading 5 English POWs for a traitor. Now he was a leader. This guy is just a community organizer, whatever that is.

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  6. Anonymous6/05/2014

    Could American have a more inept president?

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    1. Anonymous6/05/2014

      I heard Durbin on the radio defending Obamas trade. Someone should take a close look at him too.

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  7. Anonymous6/05/2014

    This President and his gang has done more to ruin our livelihood, ethics morals and freedoms than King George of England and his gang ever did. Why are they still in power?

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    1. Anonymous6/05/2014

      Do not insult King George.

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  8. Anonymous6/05/2014

    We need a congressional investigation into this.

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  9. Anonymous6/05/2014

    Say what you want but I have liked Obamas refusal to expand the war efforts. I have to admit that Libya and now this suggest something is not right.

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    1. Anonymous6/05/2014

      I remember Obama ran most of his campaign from beginning til almost the end talking about the war in Iraq....and how he was going to end it and get us out. Depending on the audience it was 9 months, six months or 90 days. He did not do that . He did bomb Libya and wanted to go into Syria (which could have sparked a huge conflict). The anti-war mood of the country held him back. He is literally NOTHING of what he said he would be. If you liked him at first, how could you still like him? He has only been consistent in one area - weakening America. He has done that with our economy, our job market, our debt, our diminished military....and now this. It even is starting to feel like he no longer has the media on his side. And by the way, this trade was NOT Bush's fault! He was in Chicago quietly getting knee surgery. We have pictures ! P.S. Where was Obama during the Benghazi incident ? (Another way he weakened America)

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    2. Anonymous6/06/2014

      Another misinformed Obamabot. Barry promised to wind down Iraq, which he is still doing 5 1/2 yrs later. He expanded the campaign in Afghanistan, what he called the real war. His "Drone War" in Pakistan has been a diplomatic catastrophe(not to mention its indiscriminate murder of woman and children). He armed Libyan rebels, know Al Qaeda operatives, and then tried to retrieve some of those weapons to send to Syrian rebels, which led to the disaster in Benghazi. His Arab Spring has become a holocaust for Christians in the Mid East, who he has turned his back on. The list goes on. Your peace candidate is in reality a warmongering president. Your vote for this charlatan is destroying our country at home and around the globe. Remember this when you support Hillary and re-elect Dick Durbin.

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  10. Anonymous6/05/2014

    GOTTA SAY THO MAMA BERGDAHL LOOKS CUTE AND SORT OF HOT LIKE A POLE DANCER..

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  11. Anonymous6/05/2014

    as a former democrat the more i see of the incomptence and arrogance and pure corruption of my irish catholic brethren who threw in with these swine the more i can understand the northern irish reluctance to get involved with the south of ireland, the protestants have good reson not to want to get involved with them....

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  12. Anonymous6/06/2014

    OBAMA IS GOD!!

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  13. Anonymous6/06/2014

    "Politicians and diapers, must be changed often, and for the same reason."
    -Mark Twain

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