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Bergdahl Pose with Taliban

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Photo of smiling Bowe Bergdahl posing with Taliban official surfaces on Twitter | Fox News

I find it interesting this guy's media day has come and gone. Not much in the press about him anylonger. Obama said he rushed the deal and didn't notify congress due to his life threatening condition and this article references investigators can't even talk to the guy till his health care providers say its ok. Considering the images of him walking to the helicopter I have to question that - its weeks later and he can walk out to a helicopter but can't talk to an investigator? It reeks of stonewalling.
 
While we have a marine rotting in a Messican jail cell. For a wrong turn.
 
CalGun said:
Photo of smiling Bowe Bergdahl posing with Taliban official surfaces on Twitter | Fox News I find it interesting this guy's media day has come and gone. Not much in the press about him anylonger. Obama said he rushed the deal and didn't notify congress due to his life threatening condition and this article references investigators can't even talk to the guy till his health care providers say its ok. Considering the images of him walking to the helicopter I have to question that - its weeks later and he can walk out to a helicopter but can't talk to an investigator? It reeks of stonewalling.
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Right because photos and twitter are both such reliable sources of information these days. Y'all will latch onto the stupidest stuff.
 
CalGun said:
Photo of smiling Bowe Bergdahl posing with Taliban official surfaces on Twitter | Fox News

I find it interesting this guy's media day has come and gone. Not much in the press about him anylonger. Obama said he rushed the deal and didn't notify congress due to his life threatening condition and this article references investigators can't even talk to the guy till his health care providers say its ok. Considering the images of him walking to the helicopter I have to question that - its weeks later and he can walk out to a helicopter but can't talk to an investigator? It reeks of stonewalling.
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Walking to a helicopter is a physical act that doesn't require civilized thought. A dog can do that. So can elephants.

Talking to an investigator, however, requires a measure of psychological effort and capability...and as you can easily see in most cases of long-term captivity when one doesn't have anyone but his or her captives to talk to - and this is especially true when the captors are from a culture wildly different from the captive's - that's all very hard on the psyche. Even when the captor and captive are from the same culture, there's the "Stockholm syndrome".

In other words, the psychologists and psychiatrists working with Bergdahl know what they're doing. Give them time to do their jobs - and the mind is not something that can be fixed overnight. The Army will try him for desertion when the time comes. It was America's duty to bring him home, and it is the Army's duty to try him for desertion...and if Army stockades are anything like the Brig we ran on board the Lincoln, Bergdahl is in for a very, very unpleasant time.
 
CalGun said:
Photo of smiling Bowe Bergdahl posing with Taliban official surfaces on Twitter | Fox News

I find it interesting this guy's media day has come and gone. Not much in the press about him anylonger. Obama said he rushed the deal and didn't notify congress due to his life threatening condition and this article references investigators can't even talk to the guy till his health care providers say its ok. Considering the images of him walking to the helicopter I have to question that - its weeks later and he can walk out to a helicopter but can't talk to an investigator? It reeks of stonewalling.
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He was a prisoner. Do you have any evidence he actually did anything or wanted to be there? A captor's arm around him and a cheesedick smile isn't really proof of anything. I have a picture of me smiling in afghanistan with a friend's arm around me, does that mean I was having a great time and wanted to be there?

Why are you even still on this? I think it's cute how random people on the internet think they're amateur investigators. You weren't there when he left. His unit was, so let the Army deal with the investigation.
 
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I see our resident leftist are still offering their defense of this man who deserted his post and is the poster child for obama's mission to get our attention off the scandal before this one....anything for the realm.
 
CalGun said:
I see our resident leftist are still offering their defense of this man who deserted his post and is the poster child for obama's mission to get our attention off the scandal before this one....anything for the realm.
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yes, let's look at a photo of the smiling republican canary ... this was after mccain ignited the Forrestal blast causing the navy's most massive losses during the vietnam war
McCain’s Plane Crashes
john mccain pow.webp
 
CalGun said:
I see our resident leftist are still offering their defense of this man who deserted his post and is the poster child for obama's mission to get our attention off the scandal before this one....anything for the realm.
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No one is "defending" him...
Just not ready to hang him without a trial as you are.
 
No, that is just the facts.

You can try and make it seem like I am anti-gun, but the reality is that I am not biased. The legal system is just different in Mexico and we will have to wait and see what they are going to do. Who knows, maybe he gets out with time served and we all go home happy.

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Yea, you believe that. But anything anti gun is good by you.
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CalGun said:
I see our resident leftist are still offering their defense of this man who deserted his post and is the poster child for obama's mission to get our attention off the scandal before this one....anything for the realm.
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Obama is lucky to have them. This guy better disappear real quick.
 
Bergdahl posing with Taliban?

Holy Cow, he shares that honor with Colin Powell, who posed with them in April 2001, hand carrying a US government check.

Way cool. :cool:
 
That's not apples to apples.

Now, all illegal aliens that cross the border illegally while in possession of illegal firearms should be in jail.

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Should all illegal aliens that cross the US border illegally be in jail as well?
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Chaddelamancha said:
That's not apples to apples.

Now, all illegal aliens that cross the border illegally while in possession of illegal firearms should be in jail.
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It is "apples to apples" as you put it. The operative word is "illegal."
 
If the marine was just in Mexico illegally, he would have probably already been deported. The operative word here is "firearms."


Μολὼν λαβέ;1063530255 said:
It is "apples to apples" as you put it. The operative word is "illegal."
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Glen Contrarian said:
Walking to a helicopter is a physical act that doesn't require civilized thought. A dog can do that. So can elephants.

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It's funny watching some soldiers or even Marines ducking their heads around Helio blades while dogs don't. An elephant is the one who should be ducking his head from the blades but I have a feeling it wouldn't.
 
CalGun said:
I see our resident leftist are still offering their defense of this man who deserted his post and is the poster child for obama's mission to get our attention off the scandal before this one....anything for the realm.
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Does this actually mean anything? It reads like a string of random words.
 
"Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is “grateful” to President Barack Obama for returning him to the United States after nearly five years of captivity in Afghanistan, said Eugene Fidell, the lawyer hired to represent the former prisoner of war.

“He’s very grateful to President Obama for having saved his life,” Fidell told NBC News on Wednesday.

Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, confirmed to NBC that he will represent Bergdahl throughout the military investigation into the circumstances of the soldier’s 2009 disappearance from his post."

Bowe Bergdahl hires lawyer for military investigation | MSNBC
 
justabubba said:
yes, let's look at a photo of the smiling republican canary ... this was after mccain ignited the Forrestal blast causing the navy's most massive losses during the vietnam war
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And once again, you go off on fantasy and propaganda, ignoring any facts that get in your way.

FYI, the USS Forrestal fire was caused by a short in the rocket pod of an F-4B Phantom II (tail number 110). Lieutenant Commander McCain was the pilot of an A-4 Skyhawk (tail number 416) on the opposite side of the flight deck.

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Glen Contrarian said:
Walking to a helicopter is a physical act that doesn't require civilized thought. A dog can do that. So can elephants.

Talking to an investigator, however, requires a measure of psychological effort and capability...and as you can easily see in most cases of long-term captivity when one doesn't have anyone but his or her captives to talk to - and this is especially true when the captors are from a culture wildly different from the captive's - that's all very hard on the psyche. Even when the captor and captive are from the same culture, there's the "Stockholm syndrome".

In other words, the psychologists and psychiatrists working with Bergdahl know what they're doing. Give them time to do their jobs - and the mind is not something that can be fixed overnight. The Army will try him for desertion when the time comes. It was America's duty to bring him home, and it is the Army's duty to try him for desertion...and if Army stockades are anything like the Brig we ran on board the Lincoln, Bergdahl is in for a very, very unpleasant time.
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Uh, huh. So less than two months after we traded 5 very bad dudes for him, because of his deteriorating medical condition(s)...he's back to full duty. Less than two months later....
 
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