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underpants

(182,271 posts)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:09 PM Jun 2014

It's 14 now...in the Faux News/talk radio universe

On the way home I heard 10 minutes of Hannity who was raving like a childish raving maniac (it is Tuesday). Aside from "Bergdahl converted to Islam" to "Bergdahl renounced his American citizenship" it got to ... now 14 American soldiers died looking for Bergdahl. I left work and it was 2 or 6 or 8 -- not in any way to trivialize their deaths -- now it is 14. Apparently Col. David Hunt said this on O'Reilly last night.








The furious search for Sergeant Bergdahl, his critics say, led to the deaths of at least two soldiers and possibly six others in the area.

Pentagon officials say those charges are unsubstantiated and are not supported by a review of a database of casualties in the Afghan war.

The most intense search operation, leaked war reports show, wound down after eight days — well before the deaths of six soldiers on patrols in Paktika Province in late August and early September.

A second former senior military officer, who also was briefed on the Bergdahl investigation, said there was no direct evidence that diversion of surveillance aircraft or troops to search for Sergeant Bergdahl encouraged the Taliban attacks, or left other American troops vulnerable. “This was a dangerous region in Afghanistan in the middle of the ‘fighting season,’ ” the officer said in an email, adding that although the search “could have created some opportunities for the enemy,” it is “difficult to establish a direct cause and effect.”

A review of the database of casualties in the Afghan war suggests that Sergeant Bergdahl’s critics appear to be blaming him for every American soldier killed in Paktika Province in the four-month period that followed his disappearance.



http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/us-soldier-srgt-bowe-bergdahl-of-idaho-pow-vanished-angered-his-unit.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1

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It's 14 now...in the Faux News/talk radio universe (Original Post) underpants Jun 2014 OP
It is infuriating Moliere Jun 2014 #1
Just to be safe, everyone who has ever died in any war is now Bergdahl's fault. Liberal Veteran Jun 2014 #2
The rescue mission was over in a few weeks, well before the other 6 combat deaths? Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #3

Moliere

(285 posts)
1. It is infuriating
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:14 PM
Jun 2014

Thought all the death from searching stories had been debunked? As have the death in capturing those who were released stories (debunked that is)

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. The rescue mission was over in a few weeks, well before the other 6 combat deaths?
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:16 PM
Jun 2014

The GOP freaking lies and the freaking media just swallows it whole.

The real story is how GOP operatives were so, so ready to trot out the "comrades" of Bergdahl to quickly spread the character assassination and make then easily available to the media.

The freaking freaky GOP will not allow Obama even a smidgen of victory for returning a soldier home, America should be celebrating but the hate obsessed party once known as Republicans have gone all in fascist.

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