Bergdahl

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Maybe Snowden can return with him and make it one big party.

Comments

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Why don't these people just officially join the Talib, after all they want to do their dirty work for them.

I guess the fucking torture he suffered under Taliban (http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/politics/bowe-bergdahl-release/) hands just wasn't reason enough to free him?

He is an American soldier. I don't give a fuck if he deserted his post or even freaking fragged his commander, we do NOT let him be beheaded or what not by the Talib. The Talib are NOT an arm of our justice system.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I wonder how Obama will handle it.
Will there be a Rose Garden statement with Bergdahl,
or will this be as quiet as possible?

Will they put him up in a jail right away,
or will they let him have home-custody,
with maybe an electronic bracelet on his ankle?

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

President Obama has been fine so far, AFAIK. He's done the right thing and offered the hypocriticis the appropriate finger.

I hope that sticks too.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Giving him crap for bringing home US soldier:

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

What a great gif.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

[moonshaz.livejournal.com]

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

50,000+ American soldiers deserted in WW2:

(http://www.npr.org/2013/06/17/189275754/wwii-deserters-stories-of-men-who-left-the-front-lines)

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

thanks greatest generation!

[thedabara-cds.livejournal.com]

My country is officially insane - has been for some time. I just don't get how a POW's political opinions makes them Ok or bad to rescue from years of captivity & torture. My Dad was at Iwo Jima, and when I read stuff like this I'm actually glad he has Alzheimer's, because news items like this would make his head explode - this is NOT the same country he fought for!

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

The Republicans are just playing politics, I think,
and are simply being the anti-Obama on anything
that he does that might get some traction with
their base and maybe some independents.

If a Republican president had done the same deal,
I don't think we would be hearing as much of this, or
at least the volume wouldn't be so loud.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

When one's values are measured solely by how much it lets them hate on pres. Obama, it's Obama derangement syndrome.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I suspect the Republicans' derangement runs
far deeper than Obama.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I think I see the move here to try to delegitimize the worst
sort of pandering and the most cynical attempts at manipulating
opinion, but I don't know if it will stick. This sort of thing does give
a bad name to politics, I admit, which, after all, should be about people
coming to terms about how to be governed, instead of attempts
to bring "1984" to life, but I think people will probably always
see it all as politics. It does make democracy harder, but I
suppose this is our challenge.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Playing politics is a matter of staying in power or getting more of it. Or your network of friends/allies. Cause then they keep you in their circles.

Haven't you watched House of Cards?

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Mid-term elections are coming up, and the GOP stands to gain majority in the Senate, too (God help us all). They are desperate for any scandal they can possibly dredge up. I mean, another Benghazi investigation? Really?

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for your families suffering. No easy road to hoe.

I agree.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

You mean, the country that rounded up all the Japanese Americans, took their property and threw them into internment camps nice prisons?

Remember, George Takei ( Sulu on Star Trek) was in one of those camps. He lived that. This might just be the same country. Sadly.

[trog.livejournal.com]

If Snowden returns, they're going to martyr him or torture him in prison until his final breath. He ought to stay away.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if we are that bad, but
prison life is not something to come home to.

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Dunno about this Bergdahl guy yet (innocent until proven guilty, right?), but IMHO Snowden is a hero. I love anyone who intelligently and systematically brings government over-reach and abuse of powers to the public eye.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Better watch it bub, or the NSA will hire someone to sue you over nothing....

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Nah. They'll drag me off to Gitmo on trumped-up charges. 'Murica fuck yeah!

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Bergdahl Was in Unit Known for Its Troubles (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/us-soldier-bowe-bergdahl-case-highlights-a-unit-known-for-troubles.html?hpw&rref=world)