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annm4peace

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Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:05 AM Jun 2014

Cspan shows hearing on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Prisoner Exchange (the attack on Bergdahl and Obama)

Yesterday Cspan showed the lame ass, hateful, ignorant, propaganda piece, hearing on Bergdahl exchange.

I volunteer for a Vets for Peace group and have been to many events in the last 11 years listening to active duty, veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, parents of killed military members, Afghans, Iraqis, Intelligence officers..etc.

I can't imagine what the insensitive and antagonistic questions and comments made by both the Representatives and the panel members are doing to the active duty military, their family members and veterans who have spoken out against the wars, the actions against the civilians, etc.

this hearing was very aggravating and hard to watch but had to keep hearing the Fox News type blowhards that are Representatives who made hateful comments and repeated each other's questions again and again.

and the panel. One guy stuck out. MIKE WALZ. member of Senior National Security Fellow at New America Foundation.. he was the expert. Amazing to hear how awful Bergdahl is and of course how horrible Obama is.

Yet MIKE WALZ was advisor to VP Cheney. Special Advisor to the Vice President for South Asia and Counterterrorism at White House.

I wish one of the Democrat Reps asked Mike Walz if he felt VP Cheney's policies based on his advising resulted in the deaths of US Soldiers. Because MIKE WALZ repeated blame Bergdahl for the death of US soldiers and of Obama cause more soldier's death by release the 5 detainees.

And what this "Patriot" MIKE WALZ do after Obama was in office ?

Why he joined up with another advisor who advised that great DOD leader Rumsfield to form a company that


"

As the President at Metis Solutions and Co-Founder & Partner at Askari Associates, Mike provides corporate leadership and strategic vision for two growing corporate enterprises that provide strategic analysis and planning solutions, policy development and implementation, program evaluation, intelligence and operational design and support, and foreign commercial development to Government and Corporate customers worldwide


http://askariassociates.com/michael-waltz-principal/

He also served as former Vice President Cheney’s Special Advisor for South Asia and Counterterrorism. His work in the Office of the Vice President culminated with Mike representing that office during President Bush’s Strategic Review of U.S. policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan where Mike advocated realigning command and control, increasing resources, and modifying our counterterrorism posture in the region.


and his co-principle

http://askariassociates.com/the-honorable-mary-beth-long-principal/

Mary Beth Long is the first-ever Senate confirmed female Assistant Secretary of Defense and worked directly with Secretaries of Defense Rumsfeld and Gates on the Department’s highest priority issues. She represented the Secretary of Defense with his foreign counterparts, and at the National Security Council and the White House.

While at the Department of Defense, Mary Beth was a four-star equivalent and worked closely with State, Treasury, CIA, DNI and NSA. Mary Beth held various positions during which she was the Department’s primary policy advisor responsible for the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America (including the Tri-Border Area), Asia and Southeast Asia (including China and India), as well as for Coalition Affairs and Strategic Communications. She was appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counter-narcotics in 2004 and oversaw the Department’s counter narco-terrorism efforts with direct responsibility for funds in excess of $1 billion. She was the architect for the Defense Department’s initial training of Afghan police.


so do we have to guess if she participated in the US (Cheney) enhanced interrogation program ??


Yet.. MIKE VICK blames Bowe Bergdahl for the death of US soldiers and upcoming terrorism from the Taliban.

I was going to post the video of the hearing but when I tried to pull it up it said program isn't available

http://www.c-span.org/video/?320029-2/sergeant-bowe-bergdahl-prisoner-exchange
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Cspan shows hearing on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Prisoner Exchange (the attack on Bergdahl and Obama) (Original Post) annm4peace Jun 2014 OP
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