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Obama Official: Bergdahl “Worthy of Sympathy” if He Joined Taliban to Protest “Psychopath” Platoon Leaders

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 11:29 PM


Guest post by Kristinn Taylor

An Obama administration official has floated the idea that Bowe Bergdahl was justified in deserting his platoon in Afghanistan and joining the Taliban over disagreements with the platoon’s leadership.



Brandon Friedman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the Department of Housing and Urban Development posted a series of tweets Wednesday evening.

Friedman  speculated that Bergdahl deserted over bad leadership of his platoon and that is why his fellow soldiers were smearing him.

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 Here are his tweets defending deserter Bergdahl:

Here’s the thing about Bergdahl and the Jump-to-Conclusions mats: What if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership? (1/5)

What if he grew disillusioned with what he saw, didn’t trust his leadership, and walked off? Legal? No. Worthy of sympathy? Maybe. (2/5)

If that were the case, the soldiers in his platoon would have all the more reason to smear him publicly now. (3/5)

Given other examples, it’s not out of the realm of possibility–and more reason to withhold judgment until after an investigation. (4/5)

I’m not a fan of such speculation, but this story could not be more unbalanced–with so many premature calls of “traitor.” (5/5)

Friedman’s Wikipedia page says he is a decorated war veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and a veteran of the Democratic Party front group VoteVets. He joined the Obama administration in 2009 at the Veterans Administration. Left in 2012 and rejoined the administration at HUD in 2014

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/wow-obama-administration-official-bergdahl-worthy-of-sympathy-if-he-joined-taliban-to-protest-psychopath-platoon-leaders/
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Well of course.
 
Of course Obama would support Bergdahl. Obama is just like him and would have done the same thing.
 
I have no doubt Obama respects and supports everything Bergdahl did in deserting his post, and his troops, and joining up with the Muslims. Obama wrote in one of his books that he would do the same.
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists.

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Obama, Ayers, Bergdahl, Kerry, Fonda
 
They are all the same. It is no wonder that this administration did whatever the Taliban wanted to save their brother.
 
They all support enemies over American troops. To them, American soldiers are the 'bad guys'. They are all cut from the same cloth.
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists.

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They're floating scenarios, looking for an escape hatch.

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They're floating scenarios, looking for an escape hatch.
Drown them with it. No escape, no mercy, NO LET UP.
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They're floating scenarios, looking for an escape hatch.

That's a good one Massadvj!  They're definitely dropping their facades now.

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They're floating scenarios, looking for an escape hatch.

Classic example of throwing stuff against a wall to see what sticks.


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They're floating scenarios, looking for an escape hatch.
Very good observation!!! 


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seriously?  I guess there isn't a single channel a soldier could go through to report "psychopath" platoon leaders; no way at all to be transferred to another unit (if the leaders were really "psychopaths" wouldn't a transfer to a less than ideal position be better than staying around)?

at least so far nobody's "floating" the idea that at least he didn't frag these "psychopath" platoon leaders.

and let's talk about jumping to conclusions and unwarranted smears on people.  we have uncontradicted facts that support the idea that this guy was a traitor, a deserter - nobody denies that he walked away from his position - but we have no facts that even remotely suggest that any of the platoon leaders were "psychopaths" so it's utterly indefensible to smear those soldiers that way without a shred of evidence.

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They're floating scenarios, looking for an escape hatch.

And they're engaging in dog-whistle politics.

They're starting to say that people are "swift boating" Bergdahl" and that the issue is one that's "whipped up" in DC.

Dog-whistle terms for "the Republicans are making all this up".
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When will this all become "Bush's Fault"?
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When will this all become "Bush's Fault"?
I am surprised they haven't used it by now.


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I am surprised they haven't used it by now.

I think that just once, they wanted to put something in the PLUS column and not always in the MINUS column.  When they blame it on Bush - they are admitting something is a failure - this...THIS one was supposed to trigger ticker-tape parades and stuff.  But, blaming Bush is coming - there's just no way to polish this turd.

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These foppish, pimpernel Nancy boys in their cubes, with their iPhones and their Twitter accounts, rising up like naked mole-rats claiming victory and supremacy over the world during a total eclipse of the sun, only to run back into their damp, suspiciously musty caves, screaming like frightened girls at the first hint of the light of day.

They praise cowardice and call it virtue because it makes their own cowardly behavior virtuous in their sightless dead eyes.

They try to paint real men and soldiers as psychopaths because the existence if men and soldiers exposes the absence of balls of their own, and would redefine manhood to embrace their au fait with the perfumed and oiled intricacies of undefined sexuality, neither man enough to be men, or strong enough to be women, and frightened by real examples of either.

The eight dead soldiers, the ones who gave up their lives looking for this man-boy who's quite possibly spent the past five years entertaining his captor's haram sexual appetites, and their families, are nothing to them, with the possible exception of tools to forward their flaccid political ideals to other naked mole-rats.

Feh...

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"These foppish, pimpernel Nancy boys..."

Pajama boys.   :Odance:

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They picked an obscure member of the team to float this turd. A real party member with a shining military record, so as to seem unassailable.

The Obama team is villianous garbage.

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These foppish, pimpernel Nancy boys in their cubes, with their iPhones and their Twitter accounts, rising up like naked mole-rats claiming victory and supremacy over the world during a total eclipse of the sun, only to run back into their damp, suspiciously musty caves, screaming like frightened girls at the first hint of the light of day.

They praise cowardice and call it virtue because it makes their own cowardly behavior virtuous in their sightless dead eyes.

They try to paint real men and soldiers as psychopaths because the existence if men and soldiers exposes the absence of balls of their own, and would redefine manhood to embrace their au fait with the perfumed and oiled intricacies of undefined sexuality, neither man enough to be men, or strong enough to be women, and frightened by real examples of either.

The eight dead soldiers, the ones who gave up their lives looking for this man-boy who's quite possibly spent the past five years entertaining his captor's haram sexual appetites, and their families, are nothing to them, with the possible exception of tools to forward their flaccid political ideals to other naked mole-rats.

Feh...

My apologies to naked mole-rats... you didn't deserve this.

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Hmm!  Is team Obama practicing psychiatry without a license?  Shame on them. :nono:

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Hmm!  Is team Obama practicing psychiatry without a license?  Shame on them. :nono:

Makes a pleasant change from them practicing psychopathy.
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