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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 12:53 PM Jun 2014

Who Are the GOP Strategists Running the Anti-Bowe Bergdahl Show?

Several soldiers who served with Bowe Bergdahl, the recently freed U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan, would like to tell you how to deal with that dirtbag. They don't want to get into the politics, but they have ideas. Would you like to book them for your show? Just call the Republican strategists representing them.

Many soldiers who served with or searched for Bergdahl after he was taken prisoner in Afghanistan are justifiably angry about the circumstances surrounding his Taliban capture. The preponderance of the evidence suggests he probably deserted his Army post, and the search for him cost American materiel and lives. But rather than waiting for a military process to answer those questions and pronounce judgment on Bergdahl—the Army's top general, in fact, said today that charges are still possible—several of the soldiers have agreed to participate in a GOP-run dog-and-pony show, swift-boat style, for electoral advantage.

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WASHINGTON — A former Bush Administration official hired, then resigned, as Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman played a key role in publicizing critics of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the released prisoner of war.

The involvement of Richard Grenell, who once served as a key aide to Bush-era U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton and later worked for Romney's 2012 campaign, comes as the Bergdahl release has turned into an increasingly vicious partisan issue...


Grenell and his current business partner, Brad Chase, have spent the morning angrily tweeting that while they are the "Republican strategists" identified by the Times, they are not Republican strategists. They simply gathered all these soldiers to trash Bergdahl and the DOD and President Obama out of their desire to get the truth out, because there was clearly no possible way that could have happened without them. ( implied)

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Who Are the GOP Strategists Running the Anti-Bowe Bergdahl Show? (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2014 OP
I knew it. I read about Grenell on Sunday offering to represent these TwilightGardener Jun 2014 #1
no surprise, they have been screwing vets for decades. lostincalifornia Jun 2014 #2
Mr. Cornelison echoed Mr. Full. underpants Jun 2014 #3

underpants

(182,274 posts)
3. Mr. Cornelison echoed Mr. Full.
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 01:07 PM
Jun 2014

Great post n2doc

I noticed their non-political similar quotes on another thread about the NYT article.

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