Politics or impeachment be damned. He brought one of our own back home. PBO is a good man and a wonderful leader.

Other than the fact that Obama's black, of course.

They're basically arguing that Bergdahl should have remained a POW indefinitely, simply because they're mad that Obama didn't kiss their asses before striking the deal. And what would they have said, anyway? That the deal shouldn't go through because these five Taliban men who've been isolated and cut off for a decade are somehow still at the cutting edge of al Qaeda's attack vanguard?

If Bush had engineered this trade, they'd be praising it as the greatest feat of foreign relations since Reagan personally killed the Soviet Union and dismantled the Berlin Wall.

two tragic thigns about the prisoner release
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025047503

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

"Bonus question: would Israel have tried to throw a monkey wrench into things, especially as all the announced 2016 Dem and GOP candidiates for pres have all stated they would escalte the war in the Mid east?"

Seriously? This is a flagrant violation of ToS: "Do not post bigotry ...it also includes any post...claiming nefarious influence by Jews/Zionists/Israel..." If it isn't (I expect the "it's just an opinion" comments any minute now) what's the point of ToS?

This whole Israel controlling the US govt does have a smidgen of truth, but unfortunately the sites that make such accusations are often the crazy side of the Internet like Infowars or other cranky anti-Semitic sites. Let's not even go there. Please.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Wed Jun 4, 2014, 10:07 PM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: DU members don't use the word THIGNS.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: "This whole Israel controlling the US govt does have a smidgen of truth" ... it does? At any rate, I don't see this post--unlike the alert--claiming that Israel controls the US government.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Is criticism of Israel de facto antisemitism? I don't believe so.
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

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The only person who voted to HIDE did so because of a typo???!?!

Well, I do have a hand injury that sometimes causes this. I would have corrected the typo, but it seems rather pointless at this point anyway