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RE: Prisoner Exchange: Bergdalh for 5 Taliban Commanders
June 4, 2014 at 10:21 pm
(June 3, 2014 at 7:36 pm)A Theist Wrote:
Heywood posted a link to those emails earlier in the thread. Here's a few more links about the emails, plus an interview that was done with two of those soldiers who served with Bergdahl. I don't know why you'd even look through the links though since you basically implied that you'll probably dismiss the words of his fellow grunts....and you probably won't accept the sources either since they don't align themselves with you politically...
Quote:“The US army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at,” wrote Sergeant Bergdahl in an email later published by Rolling Stone magazine. “It is the army of liars, backstabbers, fools, and bullies."
Quote:(CNN) -- The sense of pride expressed by officials of the Obama administration at the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is not shared by many of those who served with him: veterans and soldiers who call him a deserter whose "selfish act" ended up costing the lives of better men.
"I was pissed off then, and I am even more so now with everything going on," said former Sgt. Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl's platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. "Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war, and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him."
I don't accept Fox News sources because I've seen enough Fox News. Regardless, until there is a court-martial, none of this does anything to raise him above the position of "suspected," and my point was that you're all too eager to just abandon him there based simply on that. There's a reason we don't sentence people at the beginning of trials.
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