oldroy wrote:
It has been reported by the MSM that as many as 6 is the number. Hey, even Fox has reported the same story. Here we have some soldiers talking about 8 being the proper number without anything about how many were wounded and the number is pretty high. These guys tell a story that many aren't going to like about what Susan Rice called a hero. Well, maybe the whole White House did that since the parents of this one are the only ones who have been taken to the Rose Garden by Obama.
My favorite words in this link are:
Are you listening, Capitol Hill and America? The Bowe Bergdahl mess isn't just a story about one deserter, but two. There's the muddle-headed lowlife who left his post and brothers behind. And there's the corrupt commander in chief who has jeopardized more American soldiers' lives to "rescue" Bergdahl by bowing to the Taliban, while snubbing the surviving heroes and the eight dead American soldiers who lost their lives because of him. This cannot stand.I am ready to play games with any of you who want to argue about this one.
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2014/06/04/exclusive-the-story-you-havent-yet-heard-about-bowe-bergdahls-desertion-n1847173/page/fullIt has been reported by the MSM that as many as 6 ... (
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Pay attention you senile old fool. Your hatred for Obama will finally be your undoing. Try and pay attention now old man....
The New York Times reports:
But an archive of military reports logging significant activities in Americas war in Afghanistan offers a contemporaneous written record of events in Paktika that summer. The archive was made public by Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Pvt. Bradley Manning, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for the leak.
The first two deaths the critics link to Sergeant Bergdahl involved a major assault by insurgents on a combat outpost called Zerok on July 4, 2009. Their view is that the Taliban knew the Americans were stretched thin by the search mission and took advantage of that opportunity to try to overrun it.
The other six American deaths in Paktika that summer occurred from Aug. 18 to Sept. 5, which Sergeant Bergdahls critics link to him as well.
You see a lot of anger because we lost guys not only at Zerok, but a decent amount of good guys looking for him, said a soldier from his unit who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Where those events are identifiable in the logs, they do not mention any link to Bergdahl search operations, although the logs are terse and contain few contextual details.
Mr. Bethea wrote that of the six men killed in August and September, two died in a roadside bombing while on a reconnaissance mission, a third was shot during a search for a Taliban political leader and three others were killed while conducting patrols two in an ambush and one who stepped on a mine.
He suggested some connection to Sergeant Bergdahl for several of the deaths, saying the Taliban leader and a village that was in the area of one of the patrols were thought affiliated with Bergdahls captors. He also said a village in the areas of the other patrol was near the area where Bergdahl vanished.
Still, those villages and insurgents were in the overall area of responsibility for the soldiers, and the logs make clear that the region was an insurgent hotbed. A log on May 21, 2009, for example, said it had historically been a safe haven for the Taliban.
A retired senior American military officer, who was briefed at the time on the search for Sergeant Bergdahl, said that even though soldiers were instructed to watch for signs of the missing American, they would have been conducting patrols and performing risky operations anyway.
Look, its not like these soldiers would have been sitting around their base, he said.
The soldier who spoke on condition of anonymity agreed that it was ludicrous to lay 100 percent of the blame for the deaths at Sergeant Bergdahls feet, and he acknowledged that patrols were going to get hit in Paktika during fighting season anyway.
This is why its important to get all of the facts instead of going all CNN on the story. For the right wing critics who claim the POW was an anti-American deserter, one only has to look at Dick Cheney who asked and received 5 deferments to avoid the draft for a villain. Or the right wing hero, Ted Nugent, who was so frightened at the prospect of going to war that he literally shit in his pants and remained unbathed for weeks in order to get out of serving his country. This man actually went to war.
It would be more productive as well as patriotic to welcome the newly freed POW home.
The facts will come later.
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