Now it's on to the next phase: say he's unworthy and should have died over there. These people are just fucking evil.

I have come to believe all this sudden "anger" by everyone who ever had the slightest thing to do with Bergdahl was pre-arranged by the Repubs in Congress, who surely knew Bergdahl would be freed soon, in order to shit all over his release for political gain. Goodness, well-written articles appear in the Daily Beast (home to Repub trolls Rogin and Lake) by platoon mates less than 48 hours after it was announced Bergdahl was coming home. Just ready to go, almost written in advance in anticipation of the release.

The basic theme would have included "Obama ... left a soldier behind" etc.

The first thing I noticed about Fox News in the early days was how quickly they got stories out. The lazy MSM mostly takes the first story that anyone puts out and runs with it. No one reads retractions.

Mr. Cornelison and Mr. Full both said they wanted to see Sergeant Bergdahl court-martialed as a deserter. “I’m not going to speak on the political, but I think that now that he’s back, he needs to be held accountable,” Mr. Full said.

Mr. Cornelison echoed Mr. Full. “I won’t get into the politics, but now that he’s back he needs to be held 100 percent accountable,” he said. “For putting myself and 29 other people in my platoon in hell for 90 days.”

(the Cody guy whose Tweets the day after Bergdahl's release became super-famous somehow, and he was suddenly provided with a right-wing affiliated lawyer named Richard Grenell--all in 24 hours) on her program, according to RW blogs. Think about that. Think about the sudden media availability of all of these "Really Angry" platoon-mates who are lawyering up and all delivering the same message.

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. . . so they could complain about the troops he put in harm's way.

What the hell is wrong with those people?

Mr. Conservative at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal should be sued for libel and defamation for the blog that he posted on Sunday night.

http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/donald-r-may/2014-06-01/does-negotiating-terrorists-equate-treason#.U4109ShCz2Q

. . . it's accepted by many folks, even here at DU, as verifiable fact.


. . . sympathies for having to endure that lunkhead in Lubbock.

One of the respondents noted that in the late 60s Dr. May demonstrated retina reattachment surgeries to the Communist Chinese. Therefore, it follows that he could be accused of rendering aid to potential spies. Dr, May is a typical Republican hypocrite and fortunately he lost to Randy Neguebauer in the GOP primary for US House of Representative District #19.

to say when he's ready.

. . . not anxious to have him exposed to all of this nonsense. I'm thinking he'll have plenty of allies within and without the military when that time comes.

to hear other soldiers speak against him when information is not clear.

. . . really just to demonize and taint Sgt. Bergdahl and the administration; red meat for clicks and ratings; ammunition for knee-jerk calls to punish this soldier based on little more than internet rumor.

and claiming they all along had pertinent information speaking so ill of him. Perhaps it is more about
their losses of fellow soldiers that taints their objectivity..but even so, I find it disturbing.

Much more information is required, they could have waited.

That Republicans would join in to bash Obama is no surprise at all...that is all they ever do.

. . . constant exposure to rush radio.

2016! slime the Democrats using any and all issues, no matter how remote!

The truth will be ignored in favor of RW BS.

I don't expect the Pentagon to say anything that makes the boss look bad and going on the assumption that 5 Taliban were secretly released from Gitmo as trade over a deserter who allegedly caused the deaths of 5-6 soldiers who went looking for him does look VERY bad for the administration.

I don't think we're getting the full details of what exactly happened here and it'll be interesting to see what comes out over the next few weeks. For all we know this could have been a covert operation that went south after the Afghan CIA Station Chief's name was released by accident.

. . .and 'what comes out over the next few weeks' should be substantiated as verifiable fact before throwing it around the internet to see what sticks.

I'm not buying that the Pentagon is covering something up as you suggest they might. Without evidence to that effect, that assertion would be as reckless and irresponsible as the rest of the claims, so far.