Showing posts with label Taliban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taliban. Show all posts

Friday, June 6, 2014

Sure is funny how all of a sudden everybody and his third cousin has nothing but horrible things to say about Bowe Bergdahl, thanks to a FOX contributor and his public relations firm rounding them all up. 
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UPDATE:
Some other points to also be considered, if you are a rational person not ready to condemn this young man without any type of hearing.
http://tinyurl.com/mfcsppj


This should be interesting as things work themselves out…..

"Former Army Sergeant Josh Korder served with Bergdahl in Afghanistan.

He came forward Monday claiming Bergdahl deserted his post and shouldn’t be celebrated.

(Korder himself was recently given a less-than-honorable discharge from the service.)"

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A less than honorable discharge, sometimes referred to as an other-than-honorable discharge or OTH, occurs when a person is discharged from the military for repetitive behaviour that severely goes against the military code of conduct. If a serviceman or servicewoman receives a less than honorable discharge, they are not allowed to re-enlist with the military and they do not receive veteran benefits.


According to those on FOX, Robert Bergdahl looks like a member of the Taliban.
“I mean, he says he was growing his beard because his son was in captivity. Well, your son’s out now. So if you really don’t want to no longer look like a member of the Taliban, you don’t have to look like a member of the Taliban, are you out of razors?”

But if another former soldier, a squadron leader for Bowe Bergdahl speaks out disparagingly against the POW, his looks REALLY don't matter so much.



Unfortunately, the Right's "shoot first, ask questions later" and their fine-tuned hate machine have a lasting affect. No matter what is revealed as time goes on, or the final outcome…….their reaction will be "it's a lie, there's a coverup, Obama is threatening the military, he's not a real American", blah, blah, blah. And I can almost predict someone is going to get hurt, more than this family has been in the last few days.

WHEN will people say "enough is enough" with all of this garbage?





Thursday, June 5, 2014

WHIPLASH...




I've gotten whiplash over the last two days or so…since the President exchanged five GITMO prisoners for one American soldier. The same soldier that the Right begged, tweeted, blogged, and hammered the White House to bring home, as he was the last POW in Afghanistan. The one they now denounce as a traitor who should have been left to die, or be shot NOW. And they don't stop with just the soldier….let's lambast his parents, too, while we're at it. And threaten the town that was planning to celebrate his coming home to them….

There is a reason for this, of course:

"According to White House sources, Marc Grossman, who replaced Richard Holbrooke as special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, was given a direct warning by the president's opponents in Congress about trading Bowe for five Taliban prisoners during an election year. "They keep telling me it's going to be Obama's Willie Horton moment," Grossman warned the White House. The threat was as ugly as it was clear: The president's political enemies were prepared to use the release of violent prisoners to paint Obama as a Dukakis-¬like appeaser, just as Republicans did to the former Massachusetts governor during the 1988 campaign."

The question of whether Bergdahl walked away, deserted, worked with the Taliban (doubtful) or was just pissed off should be and WILL be sorted out by the military. President Obama, contrary to talk on the Right, never said he was a hero. But I am sure the Right does NOT want everyone to be aware of this:

"Sgt Bergdahl had taken seriously the counter-insurgency strategy supposedly aimed at winning the “hearts and minds” of Afghans. Instead, he found that US soldiers regarded Afghans with aggressive contempt: “I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live.”

But as usual, the Repubs have their mechanization of outrage at full speed ahead. (Former Bush and Romney spokesman, as well as frequent FOX contributor Richard Grenell's public relations team helped connect the media and soldiers who served with Bergdahl.) Color me surprised.

Shoot first….and ask questions later…………and keep the FOX watchers stirred up.