now Bob Bergdahl I just got returned as all we know now that the news was broken
and he's in Germany and then his income the US in a swap for
up five detainees in Guantanamo Bay that were
members %uh that Taliban and they'll be going to cut her first and staying there
for a while
lease for a year now there are people who are happy about this of course who
got one of our own back we don't leave anyone behind the government to
Afghanistan's not happy
because they think that'd signals that we will be leaving soon
if only that were more true we are to some degree wrapping things up but we'll
be leaving about 10,000 soldiers for far too long in that country
but the people who are most on happy are the people who served with beau Byrd on
this very interesting
because 0 how he left now there's a lot of controversy around it and it has not
been conclusively proven
one way or another so I really want you to keep an open mind about it I'll bite
there are a lot of first-hand accounts that are frustrating
so for some legal reforms the sergeant Matt Vikram
he was a member a bird of school too and he said I was pissed off then
and I'm even more so now with everything going on Bob Bergdahl deserted during a
time warp
this fellow Americans lost their lives searching for now
that's interesting now then issue desertion
is a very serious any man Chuck Hagel did not directly address is saying he
will get to that later let's first getting to his family
et cetera and the woman look into other matters
crane now we don't know that he deserted for sure but there doesn't appear to be
a lot a person to counsel him leaving the base
leaving his weapons behind there's one guy who's more uncorroborated that keeps
saying online that he served with them and then he would look off into the
mountains and say that he was gonna go to China I i don't know if that's true
in there are others who say that the that talk to children when they were
searching for mac n children
who said that he was crawling around on is star-making doing weird things
when he was out I'm not on the base there some reports that maybe he was
intoxicated
or a lot of that stuff bank robbery that's why you getting do an
investigation a
eventually are although it would be very ironic if we
pay this such a high price to get him back and then we in president
art but at the same time you do have to look into it seriously because it
it had a lotta consequences him what what appears to be
leaving the base so here's greg leatherman he's banged her bird does
former squad leader and he said
I'm pleased to see him return safely from experience I hope the ressies
adequate reintegration counseling I believe an investigation should take
place
soon as health care professionals the Fed to into
into indoor one so are
even his leader there a former squad leader saying hey I'm glad he's back
burner
we're going to look into what happened here later now
there's a Facebook page has been put up by other troops
this is Bob Bergdahl is not a hero
and here's a tapper reporting on it he says according to first-hand accounts
from soldiers in his platoon
Bergdahl while on guard duty shed his weapons and walked out the observation
post with nothing more than a compass and knife
water a digital camera and a diary now what's even more devastating
is that at least sick soldiers were killed in subsequent searches
for Bergdahl now that drives me crazy
because to me that goes to an incredible naive it a
on his part are because he thought well as walking in the woods and no be no
consequence I suppose that's what he thought
there's gonna be consequences the
now look if you go to the more extreme people posting here they say
also it led to lacquer resource in other areas in because a bad eight people died
another camp dicey
extreme because those are really hard to prove it seems like there'd piling on
here
but we lost six guys looking form and and
that's direct so I have to confess that
I don't know if this makes me a bad guy but I don't have a lot of sympathy for
Bob Bergdahl
now he wrote things in his diary that you know
that I might agree with on policy rensselaer read it to you I'm
he said the future is too good to waste on lies in life is way too short
to care for the damnation above others as was suspended helping fools with
their ideas that are wrong
I've seen their ideas and I'm ashamed to be even be an American the horror
self-righteous
arrogance the thrive in it's all revolting
now that's too strong language for me I'm not ashamed to be an American
anything american
idea is a great one I now we've done terrible things with recently including
how long the Afghan war as dragged out
and so I shares frustration with Afghan war but
that doesn't mean you just walk off a base and cause
incredible having did you think that if you ran into the Taliban
the blood all your against the war gray
no problem come on and I would think you can tell you know I
how it turns out your body know they're going to capture you and they're gonna
want things in return if they don't get it at some point they could have killed
you
its stunning naive it a an he also said in his journals
I'm sorry for everything the horror that is America
is disgusting okie look if you that s discuss about actions
oh the US military in Afghanistan like I said
I think we've been there way too long I think we've done some terrible things
there
so then there are other ways to go about the this you don't just walk off
you can beat a brave action and say hey you know one I
you know had put me in the bring you whatever it is a
I have having served in the military but a Picasa questions that you would get
by saying I am no longer serving in the military I would rather go to prison
back in the US for however long I have to serve or whatever the consequences
might be
but don't walk off and they make people chase you and then lose all those guys
so it now when it comes to the prisoner swap
I I guess we gotta do it but that's why I'm so frustrated that he walked off
because now on top a losing those guys on top of the resources we have to
divert
to try to find them now well at five Taliban guys go
but at the same time we're america we don't leave anyone behind
so of course we're going to do the right thing and we were gonna go get him and
we did
and I hope that Qatar somehow find a way to make sure that those piped
tell bankers from guantanamo don't escape in do us harm the future
at that tough tough deal you get when you negotiate in this case they did have
to negotiate
with their enemy the people were fighting in Afghanistan
you don't get the deal you want you get the deal you can make
and unfortunately it's cost us more now finally a soldier to 509 regimen
also said it was unbelievable all because of the selfish act one person
them out animosity toward him is nothing like you've ever seen before
now that's all true and as you can tell i sympathize greatly with that point
but one last thought he ran it comes from senior defense official
who anonymously said the guided five years
as a captive the Taliban that's probably enough
and so thats also a fair point
if we find that he did desert yeah and they might give a more
time but there's anybody want to serve five years with the Taliban
Amin at this point he's so probably thoroughly brain launched in
all the different things that he's gone through even if he did this third
and as frustrated as we all are and we don't know that for a fact you have to
do an investigation but if it turns out to be true
he certainly did pay a high price for that so let's keep that in mind as well