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Republicans demand hearings over soldier's release
Army Sergeant was released this weekend, swapped for five worthless pieces of shit that had no value to us. And now the Republicans are saying this was illegal?
They claim the President had to give Congress thirty day notice? Where is that a law, and why is that a law? Seems this Army Sergeant might have just walked off post and more or less turned himself into the Taliban there... Thoughts? Comments? |
Oh... Here is the article I was mentioning really....
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0ED26X20140603 |
Well it's obvious there is nothing productive that Congress could be doing, so this seems to be the best usage of tax dollars. I really wonder how in-between endless bitching and moaning about Benghazi and Obamacare, that they can find the time to whine and Mcomplain about a US solder held prisoner for 5 years getting released.
It's not like they could be doing anything productive on the average $174 thousand they get paid each year.. Not to mention all the money we pay for their travels, food, living expenses and their countless staffers.. Nope this is obviously the best use of tax payer money.. |
Why shouldn't they? There is serious doubt that he was a POW, and didn't abandon post, before being caught. 6 troops died in trying locate and retrieve him after his possible desertion.
They traded 5 "high level" detainees from Gitmo in exchange of him. The law was part of the 2013 defense law, which was signed by Obama. He also signed a signing statement (which he campaigned against using) to say he believes he has flexibility. A hearing is absolutely legitimate here. Maybe they find everything checks out, maybe they don't. But more than enough reasons to initiate a hearing to find out. |
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You think its end of story. Doesn't make it so to all. |
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Shouldn't we move heaven and earth just to find him from a security perspective - he might have information the Taliban want and even after five years, be it a kidnapping or a deseration, we should do everything to get him back. |
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I lean 65-70% towards not liking the way they handled the transfer for him. Especially if he deserted his post during war. But a hearing should answer a lot of questions, and maybe at the end, I fall on the other side of supporting it. |
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/02/us/bow...html?hpt=hp_t2
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http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...e-law.cnn.html But I don't expect anything to happen, this administration seems to only obey the law when it is in their interest to do so. ;) anybody else getting a weird vibe about the circumstances of this whole thing? http://www.boiseweekly.com/imager/b/...d-Showtime.jpg |
It will end just like the rest of the repub bullshit since 2008 : a big flop of stupid shit.
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Maybe next time we should trade John McCain. Then he can sit back and wait for congress to agree on how he should be returned..
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It's like soon as 2008 hit they all went fucking mental. They were just war mongrels and dick heads prior, then they all went bat shit crazy. |
Oh, never-mind I realize what it was.. 2008-09 was when the Tea Party started their rallies.. That's when crazy was unleashed.. It would be funny if it wasn't so fucking sad.
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I read some there that this has been in the works for months. If that is the case, was Congress aware of it? |
Seems he deserted as a protest, but got caught by the Taliban.
What's the big deal? Reagan gave thousands of missiles to IRAN in exchange for a few boys - who poofed their butts over that? :D |
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At the same time I was surprised the US "negotiated with terrorists". We don't do this, and I feel let down. Even more so knowing this might not have been kidnapped. |
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Oh I'd be shocked if they tried impeachment. Though after November if they control both the House and Senate, then all bets are off. But then again, chances are the President would start walking a straighter line if he had real threat of impeachment. |
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wasn't yasir arafat at the white house once? :) |
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As far as the OP, it has been the long standing resolve of presidents past that
The US does not negotiate with terrorists! Now it's Obama negotiates with Presidents. This is not good, now they will think any prisoner they get is worth the absolute worse terrorist we have. I mean we gave them 5 for 1? What does this say about all those school girls that just got kid napped, are we to pay them to get them back? |
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Wait you say this..
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I'm sure Bowe Bergdahl is being thoroughly "debriefed", and will have to account for his actions. :stoned ADG |
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We don't know if he was a deserter, and if he was he need to be found to protect our internal security - imagine having a traitor with his knowledge working for the other side. Even if he was only an E5 or whatever, he still has a lot of knowledge of operational security, etc, how things are done. And if he was a deserter he is now a criminal and we should pursue him until he is caught. Your logic is "he is a deserter, let's just let him go". It doesn't work that way. You don't just desert the Army in combat zone, go over the enemy, and the US military and the US government forgets about it. |
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I was not judging his guilt, I don't know enough to pass judgement. I do think this was a political ploy on Obama's part though. |
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What you don't seem to understand is that no matter what happened, this man was a liability. He had inside knowledge of security details, information about troop deployments, upcoming operations, and details on past operations - And we needed to prevent him from giving out any details. My god.... When a criminal shoots and kills someone one we don't say "We aren't going to risk any officers trying to find him". |
The timing is just so odd. Why the sudden rush?
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Repubs want Obama to step down which only means Biden will be president.
:1orglaugh |
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I have to say that on the surface the trade doesn't look great but the fact is that we DON'T KNOW very much at all about the situation and doubt we ever will. The military and government never disclose everything.
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I was listening to some idiots on Fox news try their best to connect dots of this trade back to Obama being a bad president. I actually started laughing after about 5 minutes of their horseshit.
and Republicans need to check on how many detainees Bush released. They seem to have their own history on every subject, whether it's spending, the debt, the deficit, executive orders, prisoner releases, etc. They can really all just suck a dick with their fake outrage about everything Obama does. It's been transparent for years now. All they want to do is have hearings because they're not going to do anything else. and the same GFY conservative parrots will fall into line on the issue. haha I just looked and saw Vendzilla has posted something entirely predictable. Any one of us should be happy that an American soldier is home, regardless of how he was captured...or not captured. Put politics aside for once. |
Maybe, if the Congress stopped trying to micromanage the US Military the Congress would have the time to address some of their domestic legislation duties which they are negligent in performing. |
a few things the article states: "were accusations by some soldiers that the Idaho native was a deserter who cost the lives of several comrades." This doesnt mean shit, it doesnt say he was accused by the military.
Irancontra was treason, congress would not give Reagan anymore money for the Contras. So they sold arms to the iran who were under an embargo. That was impeachable offense. Makes obama shit look like spitting in the street lol. |
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the issue of negotiating/not negotiating with terrorists dates back to our founding fathers, this isn't just a modern day dilemma, it's age old. Jefferson was actually the first president to draw the line.
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President Obama signed a law that said he had to give a 30 day notice to congress before he could release gitmo prisoners. You are such a dumb fucking CUNT, always siding with the president no matter what fuck up he did, I bet you are even siding with him over the VA scandal that left a lot of vets dead waiting in line for treatment, something that Obama promised to fix in his campaign speeches in 2008. Your a fucking troll with no sense of any truth, only that you are in praise of this asshole! Go ahead fucktard, answer that? Give me a reason why Obama is not responsible for that? |
This whole thing makes me sick, by giving up 5 top leaders of the Taliban for one of our deserters, we have empowered the Taliban and all terrorist. Anything that any president has done in the past like this has little to do with it, because of this being made so public.......
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