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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Former Pfc. Jose Baggett, 27, of Chicago, was also in Blackfoot Company, and said he was close to two men “killed because of his (Bergdahl’s) actions.”
“He walked off,” Baggett told CNN. “He left his guard post. Nobody knows if he defected or he’s a traitor or he was kidnapped. What I do know is he was there to protect us and instead he decided to defer from America and go and do his own thing. I don’t know why he decided to do that, but we spend so much of our resources and some of those resources were soldiers’ lives.”
On August 18, 2009, Staff Sgt. Clayton Bowen and Pfc. Morris Walker were killed by an IED in the search for Bergdahl. Staff Sgt. Kurt Curtiss was killed on August 26; 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews and Pfc. Matthew Michael Martinek were killed after being attacked in Yahya Khail District on September 4; Staff Sgt. Michael Murphrey was killed September 5 by an IED at the Forward Operating Base, Sharana.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Guyman, no not speaking for Ron, just riffing on his general vibe.
OK, Riffing???? OK, I see.
I would have traded more of those bad guys if thats what was needed.
Now to get all of our folks OUT, and STOP giving $$$$$$ to Afganastan.
I think we need to offer ALL WOMEN and GIRLS political asylum and a safe ride out if they wish.
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WBraun
climber
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In the big picture these 5 jihadists do not make the world any more dangerous by being free, it is not like they have the secret formula for destroying America.
That's right!
It's the stupid criminal American politicians along with all their criminal lobbyists that are the terrorists destroying America.
Americans are stupid sheep ......
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John M
climber
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He left his guard post. Nobody knows if he defected or he’s a traitor or he was kidnapped.
Should probably add.. nobody knows if he just went nuts and was then used as a pawn. I don't know his story. I don't know what kind of action he saw, but PTSD is real and it causes people to do crazy things.
Since we didn't know why he left, should we then just abandoned him?
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Jodie
Sport climber
Oregon
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QuoteThe five "Towel Heads" that were exchanged are some very very very bad dudes. Three of them are confirmed senior Taliban bomb/IED makers. Can only imagine how many "innocent" local (Women & Children) humans their IED's have killed. Let alone US and UN Servicemembers.
But of course, after their years spent in Gitmo, getting there shet tortured (oooops, forgot the US doesn't do that.....riiight), day in day out by the "Company" and getting tamed, they are just going to go back to Afghanistan and become simple goat herders and put their "jihadist" days behind them.
Wonderful. Here
IRS Audit in 3…..2…..1
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John M
climber
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^^^^^
sure.. lets hold this soldier accountable while letting the leaders who got us into those messes go free for the lies that they told.
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crankster
Trad climber
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It's the stupid criminal American politicians along with all their criminal lobbyists that are the terrorists destroying America.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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meh, they are inside their country, fighting for their religion, for their country as we would. They are not terrorists, they are enemy combatants. We've exchanged POWs for hundred of years.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Ron...your reactions are nearly always of the knee jerck variety and totally devoid of intelligent reflection.....you also wear your racisim on your sleeve as a badge of honor.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Sorry you are not doing so well ,Ron.
Well said ,Duffield.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Great, now we get to hear Rifleman Ron of the Oaf Keepers Militia channeling every lunatic wingNUT talking point ad nauseum. Dude's a freak show. Can we go down for maintenance again?
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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The guy can't just be left in Afghanistan because they thought he deserted. Assuming that's true he still is entitled to defend himself in a court martial.
If the u.s. cant defend itself against 5 guys who have been locked up for 12 years there are deeper problems to deal with.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/02/report-many-in-intelligence-community-fear-bergdahl-may-have-been-an-active-collaborator-with-the-taliban/
It’s one thing to do a deal to get an American back; it’s another to give away the terrorist farm as part of it; and it’s another still to give away the farm for a guy whom your own investigators think may be a Taliban sympathizer.
to all the Ron-attackers:
Save your spew, for you are just showing your own damned bias.
It does no good and advances any rational discussion to the realm of "lame."
It was not HE who high-tailed it to the Taliban.
Regardless of what President Obama does, he's a "lame duck" with the legacy of having done away with Old Boney Laden.
He needs no points. He's made his.
But all that aside, the veterans like my friend Johnny Feaver keep telling us what a dick he is for a C-in-C.
These men, heroes or not, schlubs or not, have seen more of the elephant than he will ever see and have rights to opinion.
A few examples of what JF sends me every few days:
Frankly getting tired of it. But it can be erased, so no biggie.
Just once, JUST ONCE, JUST ONE EFFIN' TIME, I'd like to see a Ron post ignored and set aside and the discussion continued.
No offense, Ron, my friend. You COULD, if you chose, be less abrasive. I figure that baiting these guys must be fun for you, and that's all I can figure.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Ron deserves everything he gets.
On topic: not one of you right wingers would be foaming at the mouth if a a republican prez (god forbid we ever see one again) made this move.
FAKE outrage, all of it.
You're being led by the nose like a bunch of ignorant cattle...the talk yakkers and Fox pulling your strings.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Ron, you don't have an original thought in your brain. None. You plug into the Wingnut-o-Sphere for every opinion you express. Every. Single. One.
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John M
climber
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As far as this traitor/deserter,,
you simply do not and can not know this..
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crankster
Trad climber
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John M, of course he doesn't know that. He's just regurgitating the bs he hears and reads on extremist websites and radio shows.
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John M
climber
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The pentagon has previously determined he was indeed a deserter.
nope.. not true..
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John M
climber
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It would be sad if he turns out to have been a traitor..
But not a sad day for America because America stood up for what it believes in, which is that a man is innocent until proven guilty..
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