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The Return of Bowe Bergdahl The Return of Bowe Bergdahl

06-03-2014 , 10:27 PM
So Obama traded 5 terrorists for a deserter?
06-03-2014 , 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Omar Comin
So Obama traded 5 terrorists for a deserter?
I think every member of his platoon has shown up on cable news in the last 24 hours. The most generous assessment is "Bowe's release shouldn't be celebrated." One guy said he no longer thinks he should face a firing squad life in Leavenworth would be sufficient.
Have yet to hear any back up for Rice's "served with honor and distinction." Sunday shows are not her thing.
06-03-2014 , 10:43 PM
lol Rice said that? Why does she get all the ****ty jobs?
06-03-2014 , 10:51 PM
Yeah she is getting creamed. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gen-barry...y-shows-again/. She may have been on her own with these comments but it seems pretty clear the administration expected "euphoria" (per chuck todd) and they are getting something much different.
06-03-2014 , 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by seattlelou
Yeah she is getting creamed. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gen-barry...y-shows-again/. She may have been on her own with these comments but it seems pretty clear the administration expected "euphoria" (per chuck todd) and they are getting something much different.
Is there any doubt she is just a tool? I think it would be pretty funny if Bergdahl went back to Afghanistan/Pakistan to join up with the Taliban. He'll probably get a pass on a court martial though.
06-03-2014 , 11:36 PM
Well we know these things are carefully scripted and maybe those words were given to her. Nobody else echoed them making it less clear to me.
06-03-2014 , 11:41 PM


Kinda whatever sans the fact it's from mad
06-04-2014 , 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by ikestoys


Kinda whatever sans the fact it's from mad
That's jacked up, lol.
06-04-2014 , 01:09 AM
The Bergdahl saga is totally disgusting to me. In the span of 48 hours the entire righty blogosphere has done a full shift from "support the troops" to a full trial in absentia for Bergdahl and his family.
06-04-2014 , 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Turn Prophet
The Bergdahl saga is totally disgusting to me. In the span of 48 hours the entire righty blogosphere has done a full shift from "support the troops" to a full trial in absentia for Bergdahl and his family.
The black president did something, tho.
06-04-2014 , 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
The black president did something, tho.
The "his dad looks like he's in the Taliban" is pretty good DS/CR fodder though.

06-04-2014 , 01:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Turn Prophet
The Bergdahl saga is totally disgusting to me. In the span of 48 hours the entire righty blogosphere has done a full shift from "support the troops" to a full trial in absentia for Bergdahl and his family.
Oh, so if you support the troops you shot to support a guy who betrayed "the troops" according to seemingly everyone involved?

That's quite the dichotomy you got there.
06-04-2014 , 02:10 AM
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Originally Posted by ikestoys
Oh, so if you support the troops you shot to support a guy who betrayed "the troops" according to seemingly everyone involved?

That's quite the dichotomy you got there.
Well, if you say you support the troops, and then suggest that the punishment for a 22 year old kid who deserted should be life imprisonment/eventual beheading by the Taliban - yeah, you might get called an idiot by smart people on the internet. This is what most of the frothosphere is doing right now, though I'm sure there are plenty calling for his death.
06-04-2014 , 02:24 AM
If you read the RollingStone article and one of the guy's(who served with him) twitters who was on the news, the criticisms start off with "he was learning the languages of the area we were in, and while we were USA #1 broing it up he was reading books!" Hey, maybe slow down a minute.

I won't pretend to know what happened, it took place a world away. Maybe this guy did want to join the Taliban, maybe he was a 22 year old guy who was naive, and became jaded after seeing some horrible ****, so he wandered off, maybe he had mental problems. There is certainly a lot of **** that we don't know, but here is what we do know, from intercepted Taliban radio traffic:

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UPDATE: 0610z LLVI TRAFFIC FROM REDRIDGE: freq 162.1 1- W ARE READY FOR THEM. 2- ALL THE NUMBERS ARE MESS IT. WE ARE WWAITING FOR THEM. 1- LOL THEY KNOW WHERE HE IS BUT THEY KEEP GOING TO WRONG AREA. 2- OK SET UP THE WORK FOR THEM. 1- YES WE HAVE A LOT OF IED ON THE ROAD. 2- GOD WILLING WE WILL DO IT. 1- WE WERE ATTACKING THE POST HE WAS SITTING TAKING EXPLETIVE HE HAD NO GUN WITH HIM. HE WAS TAKING EXPLETIVE, HE HAS NOT CLEANED HIS BUTT YET. 2- WHAT SHEAM FOR THEM. 1- I DONT THINK HE W 2-YES LOOK THEY HAVE ALL AMERICANS, ANA HELICOPTERS THE PLANES ARE LOOKING FOR HIM. 1- I THINK HE IS BIG SHOT THAT WHY THEY ARE LOOKING FOR HIM. 3-CAN YOU GUYS MAKE A VIDEO OF HIM AND ANNOUNCE IT ALL OVER AFGHANISTAN THAT WE HAVE ONE OF THE AMERICANS. 1- WE ALREADY HAVE A VIDEO OF HIM.
https://wikileaks.org/afg/event/2009...0630n1790.html
06-04-2014 , 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by joeyDizzle
I won't pretend to know what happened, it took place a world away. Maybe this guy did want to join the Taliban, maybe he was a 22 year old guy who was naive, and became jaded after seeing some horrible ****, so he wandered off, maybe he had mental problems.
Lol, Homie was in Afghanistannystan for a month. Turns everyone into Col. Kurtz, obv. The horrors, the horrors!
06-04-2014 , 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon
The horrors, the horrors!
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Originally Posted by Joseph Conrad
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination, you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.


Edit: Worst LC thread title ever. thx goofy!
06-04-2014 , 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon
Lol, Homie was in Afghanistannystan for a month. Turns everyone into Col. Kurtz, obv. The horrors, the horrors!
Yeah, I guess it takes about a year or so until you hit the point that you start killing civilians for sport.
06-04-2014 , 11:04 AM
RIP Chris Dorner.
06-04-2014 , 11:21 AM
LOL yeah man, Real America is definitely going to come out of this Bergdahl thing looking so good.

Note that when seattle eagerly relays that he's seen Bergdahl's entire platoon, what he means is that he's seen the fruits of this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/re...ampaign=buffer
06-04-2014 , 03:07 PM
Matt Binder on Twitter is doing work on how the right wing discovered that Bergdahl should've been left behind right around the time that Obama brought him home. My favorite:
06-04-2014 , 03:09 PM
lol that's incredible

FROTHY OBAMA RAGE
06-04-2014 , 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Matt Binder on Twitter is doing work on how the right wing discovered that Bergdahl should've been left behind right around the time that Obama brought him home. My favorite:
Pretty much sums up this whole thing.
06-04-2014 , 04:19 PM
lol i have been abandoned by this administration... didn't see that part at first. nice.
06-04-2014 , 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Matt Binder on Twitter is doing work on how the right wing discovered that Bergdahl should've been left behind right around the time that Obama brought him home. My favorite:
Gateway Pundit:

10/13/13: "Horrible. Obama to Leave US POW to Rot in Afghanistan After Withdrawal."

6/3/14: "Figures. Obama Administration Promoted Bergdahl to Sergeant After He Reportedly Joined Taliban."
06-04-2014 , 05:39 PM
I'm all for bringing this guy home. No matter what he did, he doesn't deserve to be left to rot with the taliban. I don't understand the Susan Rice bull**** though. Like, wtf at that ****?

      
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