The ‘News’ today requires waders to navigate through the mud that is being slung to serve political purposes. It is being reported on all the right-wing sources that Bob Bergdahls son, who vanished in 2009 while serving in Afghanistan, is a traitor who deserves death. It was reported that his son took off his flak jacket, laid down his weapon and just walked away from his unit. According to the AP. several soldiers died looking for him in the weeks and months to follow. Weeks and months mind you, not as a direct result. (Sounds to me like a man suffering from PTSD with a suicide intention although I am speculating as to what his intention was.) The Pentagon is required to give Congress a 30-day notice for releasing detainees, but Bergdahls rescue operation was significantly sped up to essentially to save his life, Hagel said. Under Article 2 of the Constitution, the president can issue such an order, which was done with the National Security Councils unanimous consensus, the AP reported. While standing with President Obama, the soldier’s father made a statement in Pashtu which means; “In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.” That’s the simple phrase that Robert Bergdahl, father of freed Army Sgt. Bow Bergdahl, said in Arabic at press conference with President Barack Obama on Sunday. (He was NOT claiming the land for Allah as some report!) The father says he spoke in Pashtu (also known as Afghani) because he said his son might have difficulty understanding English after five years in captivity. Robert Bergdahl claimed on Sunday that he follows “a bunch of jihadis” on Twitter because they are “great sources of information.” He also argued that “direct communications is the key to resolving conflict.” The poor soldier has yet to be able to defend himself, but we can see how easy it is to whip people into frenzy by withholding essential information. People seem willing to tar and feather anyone if it sounds good to them without doing any research. The POW is still being held in Germany and no one has yet heard his side of the story so anything they say is speculation. The soldier who condemned him might have ulterior motives for all we know? It takes time to get to the bottom of these things. Perhaps he had just witnessed something unspeakable and cracked? I will give him the benefit of a doubt until he has a chance to speak for himself. The military code is; No man left behind. Who are we to judge him guilty without a hearing and leave him in the hands of the Taliban? Gosh, and the news reports that they traded 5 high-level Taliban leaders is also misleading. The prisoners who have been held under indefinite detention and subjected to torture have never been charged with a crime. They have been labeled enemy combatants rather than prisoners of war so they could use enhanced interrogation techniques’ (torture) against them. You see, torturing prisoners of war is strictly against the Geneva Conventions and International Law. Although Obama has wanted to close this prison his efforts have been halted repeatedly by the GOP. Perhaps they are worried about how the world will react to our tactics?
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 20:52:42 +0000
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