. . . tweety must be sucking bile right now.

Quick, throw some mud and see if it sticks! If not, well, we'll get more mud!!!

I'm convinced that tweety is a gun for hire. Whoever is buttering his toast gets his attention

I'm proud of our President on this. Makes this old Vet happy to know that this Commander in Chief cares about his troops.

and in the way of creating fodder for the news networks too lazy to correct false narratives.

Like the false pings from a lost airliner, false narratives can fill the airwaves for days on end.

Wonder how that story got out there.

Bowe Bergdahl's Vanishing Before Capture Angered His Unit
www.nytimes.com/.../us-soldier-srgt-bowe-bergdahl-o...
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2 days ago - ... midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in ... American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life.

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. . . according to a NYT reporter.

Golly, I wonder which administration.........

and was a danger to those around him. If those around him actually observed this behavior he should have been med-evaced.

And IF there was, the military will be able to produce it, no? Surely they would not throw it away?

As for the NYT, remember Judith Miller, remember the Rendon Group? The Rendon Group was hired by Bush et al to 'sell the War in Iraq'.

They used journalists to 'funnel stories to' in major news organizations, people like Judith Miller eg. Which is how we got the lies in so called credible news organizations like the NYT.

Looks like we have another PR Firm 'selling' the Bergdahl is a traitor' story. Looks like the source of this note story may be one of the 'disgruntled soldiers' they have been using, one of whom apparently received a 'less than honorable discharge' himself to funnel stories to the NYT and others.

saying he wanted to into the mountains or something. But I don't know if it was ever substantiated beyond that, it was just a report of a note. But apparently there is no note in his file.

are these guys

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025050773

I wonder if he was just repeating the legend going around that there was a note, or if he actually saw it, or saw it in Bergdahl's investigation file.

is word for word identical to the guys being trotted out by Richard Grenell.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/gop-strategists-bergdahl_n_5437738.html

Right Wing PR group to smear Bergdahl are not very credible. Reminds me of the Rendon Group and Judith Miller et al, the Rendon Group was hired by the Bush admin to SELL the War in Iraq. They used 'journalists' like Judith Miller to get their 'stories' into the NYT and other news media.

If there WAS a note, the military would have it. No one has seen it, that I know of, and the WH says there was no note.

gunz gunz gunz!

The gawd!

Saint geebus!

seriously, think about it. A desertion note? WTF? "Dear Army...."


The ONLY ones mentioning a "note" are the RW swift boaters. If you read Hastings article about them, it may explain why.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-prisoner-of-war-20120607

have been the best soldier in that unit.

Keep this up and their so called take over of congress will be slowly running away from them. Piss off enough American voters and they will come out in full force and vote your ugly asses out of office. Keep effing with soldiers and veterans, the unemployed and Americans who are not in that gawd damn 1-2%.

Says the Bushies totally used the poor soldier for their selfish purposes. Those who know her are proud of her service, and of how she took control of her life back from the propagandists.

to be a Bush-tool to boost the war

Did they re-hire Judy Miller?

I have a feeling they found something out in Congress to tell them the attacks may not be justified.

Sure looks like it was.

would such a note be a huge scandal? Would it be some kind of smoking gun?

I don't think it would be, but vigorous debunkings like this give the idea that it would be.

Congress was not bypassed, either. I recommend you pull up Rachel Maddow's excellent in depth reporting on the Bergdahl case -- both tonight and previously. Congress had abundant notice.

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What would they be spinning then? That he deserved to have his head cut off because he deserted his post? Makes you wonder.

that would have made it politically impossible to ever make a deal with the Taliban, and the war would never end. So they would be ecstatic if such a thing happened.

Al-Qaeda. They are trying to regain the control they lost in Afghanistan and Bergdahl was a high profile pawn. Torturing and killing him would have been counter productive.

if he was a deserter. My jaw dropped to the floor when I read that on Wednesday and yes, every bit of all this wild speculation and especially the calls for his punishment make me wonder (and shudder), when none of us actually know a damn thing about the circumstances of Sgt. Bergdahl's capture.

One thing for sure, if he had been executed while being held prisoner by the Taliban, the right would be spinning, immediately, in the opposite direction.

I think at this point we know so little and the reports are so muddied by what people want to be true. His physical and mental health at this point are a bigger issue as he has a long recovery ahead.

that pops up on the Internet, false headlines, idiotic magazine covers, ambiguous "official" reports...the buzz has become a living nightmare.

I can't even imagine what his loved ones must be feeling, after all this time, to now have such a cacophony blaring.

Knowing their son is finally coming home, but yet so much hate out there toward him for no reason.

His platoon knew about that and so did the military.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014819538

Obviously doing that in Afghanistan was really stupid but its not as though this was the first time...

Check out "The Brook of Elan" with Tommy Lee Jones

A story about the father of a dead American soldier finding out the truth about running over kids in Afghanistan.