Five active, trained, seasoned, battle-hardened jihadis traded for a deserter.
Bergdahl in Afghanistan reportedly deserted his unit with the intention of joining the Taliban, and while with them, converted to Islam, declared himself a “mujahid.”
“Bowe Bergdahl Charged With Desertion, Lawyer Says,” by Luis Martinez and Lee Ferran, ABC News, March 25, 2015:
American soldier and former Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with desertion for allegedly walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, Bergdahl’s attorney told ABC News today.
Bergdahl was freed after five years in Taliban captivity in a controversial deal last year in which the U.S. agreed to release five mid- to high-level Taliban figures from detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
President Obama called it a “good day” when Bergdahl was freed, but critics, including some high-ranking Republicans, loudly denounced the deal, likening it to negotiating with terrorists. Also, lawmakers complained that Congress had not been consulted about the exchange, as they said the law requires….
cs says
Martial court on him. Traitor.
john spielman says
and court martial the Obamanation who sits in the Oval office as well because he is a traitor and he is the commander and chief of the US ARMED FORCES!
Jay Boo says
Obama released 5 terrorists and claims the ‘No man left behind’ excuse for Bergdahl who reportedly deserted his unit with the intention of joining the Taliban.
Yet, Obama and Hillary left behind the staff of the US Embassy in Benghazi.
Unlike Bergdahl, they had not sought to join the enemy.
Bezelel says
I noticed that too.
Shane says
How are Obama’s followers going to explain Obama trading 5 Taliban commanders for 1 American deserter? This is the worst trade in American history and Obama looks like a clown at best, a traitor at worst.
mortimer says
The mind-twisting, morality-twisting illogic of Islam.
mortimer says
The mind-twisting, morality-twisting illogic of Obama.
rev g says
Good! This guy merits a firing squad.
Shane says
He may get life imprisonment, and Obama should get 5 years in prison for making that awful trade.
FredvanH says
Obama should get one life sentence for every American killed as a result of him releasing those 5 human excrements.
Paula Boddington says
Good grief, haven’t the guys who exchanged him for five prisoners seen Homeland?
pumbar says
No, but they have had prior viewing of the new series that self-censors and refuses to show muzzies as terrorists.
Avenger says
Giving the Taliban five jihadists for one coward and deserter is the real criminal act. Who ever on the U.S. side that arranged this exchange of detainees should be incarcerated for a life time. Pure treachery.
Spot On says
B.O. personally handled this himself as he showed us on his TV appearance with the deserter’s parents..
William says
“…a controversial deal last year in which the U.S. agreed to release five mid- to high-level Taliban figures from detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”
The U.S. did not agree to release the five Talibans. It was “President” Hussein who decided to release them. The other branches of the government were not involved. So, it is not the U.S. that is responsible. It is Hussein, the closet Mohammedan.
Georg says
Great point.
Why do I think Valerie Jarrett may have something to do with it as well?
Georg says
Historians will call this the “rented mule” phase of his presidency.
Avenger says
Then the U.S. House and Senate has to grow a pair and “box in” this elected by lying scumbag for the next 22 months.
I would actually support a military junta to remove this East African imposter and traitor.
GP says
Bowe BridDog-shit-a slimy traitor and deserter. As we knew FROM THE BEGINNING.
I wonder if the OhBummer will hold another WH Rose Garden presser on this deserter along with his long haired maggot infested dope smoking FM type parents? can we get those five Taliban Generals back from this BS totally political White House stunt??
Bukkdem Jizheads says
For a long time he did not call his parents and I wonder if this is still the case?
The Doctor says
Why bother trying him. Obama will just pardon him when it’s over.
gravenimage says
Bowe Bergdahl charged with desertion
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I have to admit,i had pretty much given up on his being charged at this point. Glad to see it.
More:
Five active, trained, seasoned, battle-hardened jihadis traded for a deserter.
Bergdahl in Afghanistan reportedly deserted his unit with the intention of joining the Taliban, and while with them, converted to Islam, declared himself a “mujahid.”
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There’s desertion, and then there’s *this*.
I am *not* defending desertion—far from it. But if someone deserts their post out of cowardice, it is disgusting, but it is not evil.
If one *joins the enemy*, that is a very different—and far worse—matter.
I had always suspected this—it’s not as though one could just walk away from Afghanistan into some neutral territory and disappear. There is no Switzerland or Canada nearby.
If he did indeed intend to join the Taliban, then we did not so much trade five Jihadis for a deserter as we traded five Jihadis for *another Jihadi*, which is much worse.
This is not a case of our “leaving no man behind”—even if he were a deserter—as our making heroic efforts to rescue someone who has declared himself our enemy.
This charge after all this insanity is slight redress—but it is better than pretending he is a rescued soldier and giving him a parade—as his home town planned to do, before they got enough disturbing reports about this “home town boy”.
I hope he is ultimately charge not just with desertion, but with going over to the enemy.
cs says
Yes, good point, he is not a deserter, he is a traitor.
MarineDad1957 says
Evidence has been found that Burgdahl has deserted and will be tried for it in a Military court. The rules are very different than in civilian courts and his Lawyers will be hard pressed to prove otherwise. My only question at this point is why, if he was a converted jihadi, would he let himself be “rescued” knowing that he may be facing desertion charges after all the facts come out? Is this his suicide jihad move to get the 5 Leaders out of Gitmo? there is something convoluted about this that we are not privy to. His parents were all giddy and Allah happy standing in front of the world with the Mullah of the United States proclaiming their belief in Allah and the President. I’m not sure that they didn’t know that their son was a traitor to our country and probably would be executed for his desertion. There is something weird about this and I’m sure we be getting really anxious as this saga progresses. I’m thinking that the deal has already been cut and he will get pardoned by the Mullah in Chief. I hope not, but this just doesn’t make sense to this old Marine. Semper Fi to all our truly brave service men and women.
Bukkdem Jizheads says
The living conditions, the possibility he was beaten or raped, the food, lice, rats and bedbugs in his cell, being held in darkness, sweating in the heat and not allowed to bathe or shave… these might be some reasons he would rather face a military trial.
gravenimage says
MarineDad wrote:
My only question at this point is why, if he was a converted jihadi, would he let himself be “rescued” knowing that he may be facing desertion charges after all the facts come out?
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It is hard to know for sure, but it looks as though that Taliban may not have entirely welcomed him as a “Mujahideen”, as he seems to have hoped. While he clearly had quite a bit of freedom, it also seems that the Taliban was deeply suspicious of his motives.
And don’t forget that Jihadists regularly turn on their own even when the one in question is not a former American soldier.
I think the Taliban finally decided that Bergdahl was more useful as a bargaining chip than as a new recruit. If US authorities hadn’t bitten, then he might well be occupying an unmarked grave somewhere in the Pashtun tribal areas right about now.
After the prospect of that, the possibility of facing an American courts martial sounds pretty good…
Georg says
Charged with desertion and distinction.
I wonder why the Obama admin was slobbering all over this guy as the story dragged on… Could it have been Bergdahl’s charming anti-American, Muslophilic rhetoric and actions? Obama gave a warm paternal smile upon hearing Berghdahl’s loopey-doopey dad prasing Allah in the Rose Garden and then restrained himself from making out with the both of them. Jeremiah Wright, Bergdahl, Jei Johnson, jihad’s many meanings, refusing to attend the Hebdo march, random Jewish shootings, America’s Muslim foundations, what a lot.
True American leadership. Teddy Roosevelt incarnate.
BlueRaven says
This guy is a first rate traitor. He ought to be labeled as such. There is a lot more to his story than that he is a deserter. I like to know what kind of information he shared with the Talibananas and how many Americans died because of that. I like to know if Obama knew about this and why did he exchange him with five high prized terrorists.
mariam rove says
Hi BR! When this story first came out I was talking to my son who served in Afghanistan about it. Then he told me to hold judgement until the investigate this. I was a little shocked with his response. He went on to tell me that the reason he is saying it because this happened often when a solder gets all fatigued and they had to go and look for them. I then told my self this kid seen it all and I took his word for it. He called an hour ago and he this bastard deserted!! I also think we lost a few of our solders looking for him. m
Lilith says
Didnt men die trying to “rescue” this traitor. I am counting the days until Obama is out of office. I couldnt believe my ears when I heard that Obama wanted to shut down Gitmo, and then traded jihadists for this traitor. Of course those detainees are going to hate America even more and gomto great lengths to get revenge. Is there any way to make Obama acxountable legally for his acts against America after he is out of office?
Gerald says
Didn’t Susan Rice the serial liar say that Bowe Bergdahl served with honour and distinction? Why would the Army want to court-martial a soldier who served with honour and distinction?
gp says
Susan Rice wouldn’t know the truth if it bit her in the ass. She has one job-to carry water for the OhBummer and put his political spin (see lies) out to a willing and equally contemptible main stream media.
Sally Archer says
CNN now has Susan Rice spinning the “honor and distinction” lie she told as being that she meant Bergdahl enlisted and that enlistment itself is an honorable act. (Can’t wait for the hoot of how Daily Kos and Daily Beast will spin it, but the ignorance or willful blindness of those embracing the lies grows less funny by the day.) The propaganda never relents. Everybody in the Obama administration hates this country, apparently, and the majority of its taxpayers. Yes, taxpayer, another word soon to be verboten in Goebbelsian Obamaland. Obama’s so totally in the pockets of the dynastic inherited big money globalist elites (including Iran’s Khamenei), conflating financial markets with dictatorial fascist-socialism (also theocratic Sharia), not a fresh idea among the lot of them. If only more people young to old would think for themselves instead of being Obamasheep. The young shouldn’t look to Obama for anything new — he’s using every bad provably unworkable idea of the 20th century to tube and torch America in the 21st century.
Only a hypocrisy of hatred, embrace of Islam because non-Christian and non-Jewish, and reverse black-against-white racism could motivate such illegally abysmal government at the top. (Do not let me get started on RINOs and the establishment right, just as willing to protect their prestige and social standing at all costs as the left, the American public be damned) There has never been a president so worthy of impeachment, and never a Congress so gutless. If I’d known it would come to this, I’d have immigrated to Australia when I was young. Now they rarely take Americans, and I get it. Australia’s last two leaders have had a pair, one a pair of ovaries, the other a pair of balls, when it comes to national defense. Why would they willingly risk Americans coming in who might be Islamist sympathizers like the POTUS and his administration operating on the inside to take a country down? Of course they wouldn’t.
Many Jews in a pre-computer world who saw it coming could escape Germany during the Third Reich. During the unacknowledged Obama-Khamenei-UN Fourth Reich global equivalent, even if we see much worse times coming, there’s no place for us to hide, no place for us to go.
duh_swami says
The only winners in all this are the Taliban, they were aided and comforted. Bowe lost, the solders who died looking for him lost, Rasool Obama lost, America lost, even poor Martie Harf lost. Only the enemy profited… Giving aid and comfort to the enemy is treason, ainit?
pumbar says
“Giving aid and comfort to the enemy is treason, ainit?”
I believe it depends on who is doing it.
traci94 says
Bowe is a traitor and so is Obama; they both should be tried for treason.
Sam says
And nobody can say anything to the greatest traitor of American people, Obama for fear of being called racist and that SOB came to power solely for his skin color. More sadly those liberals who voted for him still protect him. Obama single handedly released 5 of the most dangerous members of Islam. Who knows how many Americans were killed or maimed because of them, including the squeek Berghdal. It is like a movie but it is real with our lives in danger. WOW.
Wellington says
I think it arguable that desertion by a soldier in the field is a form of treason and should be treated as such. Doing so would entail, always therefore, a double charge against the defendant.
As for Susan Rice, this woman is appalling and deserves no job in government ever again. She got Benghazi wrong (due to a film about Mohammed, blah, blah, blah) and she got Bergdahl wrong (“served with honor and distinction,” blah, blah, blah). She has also regularly lauded Obama’s foreign policy as brilliant and (get this) recognized as brilliant around the world. Personally, I wouldn’t hire her even to flip hamburgers at McDonald’s so massively incompetent is this woman.
Respecting Obama, it is clear once again that one of the greatest tragedies in all of American history has been the election of this far-left, highly foolish, loon to the greatest office in the land. The harm he has done to my country has become almost incalculable. And he still has almost two years left in office. I might add that I have no respect for those who voted for this man, especially the millions of clueless ones who voted for him for President the SECOND time.
Ah, Bergdahl, Rice and Obama. There’s a malevolent trinity for you. I am filled with disgust by the thought of anyone of them.
Demsci says
//” I might add that I have no respect for those who voted for this man, especially the millions of clueless ones who voted for him for President the SECOND time.”//
With all due respect, Wellington, but this for me begs the question; Why then would you want to save them from the Islamic totalitarian thread? From themselves? Against their will?
I understand that freedom-democracy-loyalists aim to save the laws, economy, treasures, achievements of the West, yes, but apart from that:
If we distinguish among citizens in Democratic Nations, those that really appreciate our laws, achievements, democracy-loyalists,
and all those “sleeping neutral sheep”, “zombies”, ignorant, arrogant PCMC-masses, then….
When “we, democracy-loyalists” so much despise so much of what BOTH “neutrals and Muslms stand for why, why, why would we want to save the “neutrals” from the Muslims? Why would we even appreciate them any more than the Muslims?
PJG says
Maybe because they are sharing our space, Demsci. We are stuck with them. We have to save them because they are the people who our kids have to live with in the future.
Demsci says
It’s a difficult question for a complicated situation. However, if the worst comes to the worst, and we start losing casualties and territory, the “neutrals” should be invited to join us or otherwise told they are on their own with or against or under the Islamic wolves for which we so warned them.
Wellington says
PJG, Demsci, has already aptly replied to your query but I would add that America in and of itself is highly worth preserving in tact even though many fools live in America. As bad off as the world is now, imagine what it would be like with no America. I submit it would result in just about the darkest world possible. As Mark Steyn, a Canadian by birth, has said, a world without America is a world that would be subject to the tyrants of the earth.
R Cole says
Too right!!
That had dodgy written all over it!!
Bergdahl’s Taliban captors[??] said he converted years ago. And that he reportedly helped train them – to wage war on his own country.
Then on his release – it was claimed he could not remember how to speak English.
~ Could not or did not want to remember? [Only Arabic will do ~ now?]
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He’s been palling around with the Taliban in suspicious circumstances – now he’s allowed to go free in the US army ~ that’s counterintuitive!
On military bases ~ everyone should be on the same side!!
[Some weird anti-Islamophobia hocus pocus trumping security.]
If the man is a traitor – the man’s a traitor. And should face trial!
More Ham Ed says
Growing a dirty beard.
sidney penny says
Many Americans died looking for him,apart from:
“Five active, trained, seasoned, battle-hardened jihadis traded for a deserter.”
Jerry says
Isn’t his new name Ahmed bin Sharmutta bin Barak al Talibani?
ApolloSpeaks says
MR. PRESIDENT, YOU WENT AROUND THE WORLD APOLOGIZING FOR AMERICA
And now you need to apologize to the American people for the atrocious deal of trading five murderous Taliban commanders for a completely worthless America-hating army deserter responsible for the death of up to 14 soldiers. And then you need to apologize to the deserter’s platoon mates who you smeared as swiftboating liars for telling the truth about his crimes. APOLOGIZE OR RESIGN! Save what little remains of your honor.
http://www.apollospeaks.com
profitsbeard says
When convicted, he should be shot… so that the real traitor can’t “pardon” Bergdahl.
Then try Obama for the treason of releasing terrorists during wartime.
And then shoot him upon conviction as the far greater danger to the country and the world.
Joseph says
They should convict his ass right back to the Middle East. Just drop that trash off right in the middle of it. They will kill his ass in a second for being a suspected spy.
What irony that would be, being killed by the very people he loves and respects. He was willing to die for the cause of Islam, so let him.
pongidae rex says
High treason against the USA is now fashionable and cool, even if you are in the military. He no doubt has a team of lawyers, at taxpayer expense, to ensure he is not inconvenienced by this.
Bezelel says
Berg is not even under a bond or pretrial confinement. It doesn’t look like he has much to worry about.
quotha raven says
Bezelel – He’s a flight risk, non? He slipped away once; why not again? Despicable. q
MarineDad says
Evidence has been found that Burgdahl has deserted and will be tried for it in a Military court. The rules are very different than in civilian courts and his Lawyers will be hard pressed to prove otherwise. My only question at this point is why, if he was a converted jihadi, would he let himself be “rescued” knowing that he may be facing desertion charges after all the facts come out? Is this his suicide jihad move to get the 5 Leaders out of Gitmo? there is something convoluted about this that we are not privy to. His parents were all giddy and Allah happy standing in front of the world with the Mullah of the United States proclaiming their belief in Allah and the President. I’m not sure that they didn’t know that their son was a traitor to our country and probably would be executed for his desertion. There is something weird about this and I’m sure we be getting really anxious as this saga progresses. I’m thinking that the deal has already been cut and he will get pardoned by the Mullah in Chief. I hope not, but this just doesn’t make sense to this old Marine. Semper Fi to all our truly brave service men and women.
Jack Holan says
What is chilling (ice cold) Jen Psaki yesterday saying that Bergdahl served with honor. She did not mention that anyone died looking for him. She did not name the names of the 6-soldiers who were KILLED looking for him.
My Shari'a Moor says
@Jack Holan…THANX!
These US soldiers in Bergdahl’s military unit DIED while searching for this DESERTER/ DEFECTOR:
PFC Matthew Michael Martinek
Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss
SSG Clayton Bowen
PFC Morris Walker
SSG Michael Murphrey
2LT Darryn Andrews……all KIA!
Many others from various units were wounded or killed while searching for Bergdahl!
Islofob IS-1 says
Obama knew what he was doing here, it advances islam to give five leaders, for one follower of islam. And, Obama knew this before the trade took place, as the military would know about this, from the early time of the desertion.
Bottom line, it advances islam , this is why it was done. Even Bergdahl understands giving it up for the greater “good”, would he not?
Uncle Vladdi says
Remember HOW VERY LITTLE IT TOOK TO IMPEACH RICHARD NIXON?!
Mo says
I was so glad to hear this news!
So, can we get Obama on treason NOW?
My Shari'a Moor says
These US soldiers in Bergdahl’s military unit DIED while searching for this DESERTER/ DEFECTOR:
PFC Matthew Michael Martinek
Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss
SSG Clayton Bowen
PFC Morris Walker
SSG Michael Murphrey
2LT Darryn Andrews……all KIA!
Many others from various units were wounded or killed while searching for Bergdahl!
YHWH BLESS them & their grieving families!
Alissa says
“Five active, trained, seasoned, battle-hardened jihadis traded for a deserter.”
Sounds like an obama move to me. If we do have a future…obama will go down in history as the absolute worst leader in recorded history.
That’s what happens when political correctness controls the vote.