Obama prisoner exchange for Bergdahl

Quote Originally Posted by MoneySRH:

Oh, brother, Wow… that’s stupid. Let me see… the president thought… Hey, guys I’ve got a plan. Let’s throw logic out the damn window and let five terrorists go free to commit terrorist acts so I can get the military to love me.

SMH, my eyes are burning... unbelievable

With the soldier's parents beside him, it made good first-day headlines and pictures....sourcing from USA Today..

Now even you Money... are smart enough to see how the Swap was just another PR move to put Obama in good light with the Americans in general and the Military men /women and their families in particular...and skipping Congress to do this.. to give all the credit for securing the release to Barack Obama hmmmmm hmmm hmmm.

In an interview recorded in France and aired on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry said
in regards to questions relating to Bergdahl's disappearance"there is plenty of time to sort through what happened now that Bergdahl is safe from enemy hands."

When asked questions relating to Bergdahl's disappearance – Kerry said there is plenty of time to sort through what happened now that Bergdahl is safe from enemy hands.

It would have been, he said, "offensive and incomprehensible to consciously leave an American behind … in the hands of people who would torture him, cut off his head." cut off his ears, tape wires from portable telephones to his genitals and turn up the power, cut off limbs, in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan....

Quote Originally Posted by MoneySRH:

Well... which is it?

#1. Obama did an honorable thing for an American soldier and his family?

Or

#2. The NSA and the president executed an illegal rouge operation for PR purposes and naively let five dangerous terrorists walk free with no consideration of the consequences to close GITMO for Obama’s legacy?


... I believe the NSA and the president of the United States devised a plan of action. Bring the soldier home to own up to his actions and keep a REALLY close eye on him. Let the five terrorists go and gather intelligence on them… kill’em when the time comes...

None of the above ..it's the last paragraph #53..

Wait awhile and it will come out that millions of $$$$ were given to the Haqqani Network to take these washed up fmr.commanders ...they were offered these same 5 ..a year and a half ago for Bergdahl and they didn't take the trade..they don't need or want them ..what they do need and want is money ...and I believe they got it this time..

"The future is too good to waste on lies," Bowe wrote. "And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be american. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting."

The e-mail went on to list a series of complaints: Three good sergeants, Bowe said, had been forced to move to another company, and "one of the biggest garbage bags is being put in charge of the team." His battalion commander was a "conceited old fool." The military system itself was broken: "In the US army you are cut down for being honest... but if you are a conceited brown nosing garbage bag you will be allowed to do what ever you want, and you will be handed your higher rank... The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an american. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools." The soldiers he actually admired were planning on leaving: "The US army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at. It is the army of liars, backstabbers, fools, and bullies. The few good SGTs are getting out as soon as they can, and they are telling us privates to do the same."

In the second-to-last paragraph of the e-mail, Bowe wrote about his broader disgust with America's approach to the war--an effort, on the ground, that seemed to represent the exact opposite of the kind of concerted campaign to win the "hearts and minds" of average Afghans envisioned by counterinsurgency strategists. "I am sorry for everything here," Bowe told his parents. "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." He then referred to what his parents believe may have been a formative, possibly traumatic event: seeing an Afghan child run over by an MRAP. "We don't even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks... We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them."

Bowe concluded his e-mail with what, in another context, might read as a suicide note. "I am sorry for everything," he wrote. "The horror that is america is disgusting."

Some poster above made a comment stating 'as the facts appear to be' meaning that poster, nor I, know the facts of this case.

If the facts come out that Bowe was a terrorist and the administration knew this, of course I would not support it.

If the facts come out that he was a deserter, that is a much different scenario. I am not a fan of leaving behind any American to die if we have the ability to prevent it.

So I guess it is too early for me to conclude one way or another. In fact the only factual comment I made upon this is it illustrates the hypocrisy of politics.

If a Republican was President, he would be supported by the same posters/people attacking Obama and attacked by the same people/posters defending Obama.

The funny thing is when I made this comment, the right wingers in this thread (as you will do) all fell into the same trap and (gasp) attacked Obama and defended Republicans.

Hook, line, sinker my friend.

Looks like the Obama administration is at odds about who made the final call....

Hagel himself said on Meet the Press on June 1. "I signed off on the decision," Hagel said. "The president made the ultimate decision."