Bergdahl, the special snowflake & Chuck Hagel, the dupe

I thought there are no beautiful unique snowflakes in the military. Are you saying my drill instructors were wrong?

No one has said a f**king word about Hatley, Lourance, Miller ,Mayo and the other Warriors at USDB. I visited Hatley last evening and he just about came unglued when the subject of Bergdahl and the 5 prisoners came up. It was definitely the elephant in the room that couldn’t not be addressed. Hagel has the power/authority to release these guys, but does he have the balls?

“Puddle of mud, skitsafrentic phyco.”

They realize that’s a lyric from the song, Pyscho, by Puddle of Mudd right?

Pretty sure being an actual schizophrenic has nothing to do with listening or liking that song, it was pretty main stream.

Grasping for straws much?

Next we’re gonna hear he was a whack job. Recruited and allowed in the Army because of the policies of the Bush Administration but had it been under Obama, he wouldn’t have made it in. They’re gonna spin this every way to Sunday. Why? The more confusion, obfuscation and contradiction Obama can add to the story, first the harder it will be to find and settle on the truth of what he did and why and second, the easier it will be to blame shift and garner the sympathy of the “he’s suffered enough” mentality, the military haters on the left and the average ill or non-informed American.

This story of Bergdahl is a lot simpler than it is being made out to be in my mind. I believe he is simply a malcontent who deserted and afterwards possibly aided the enemy. If he were truly treated as a deserter until proven otherwise, based on HIS own words, notes, emails, phone calls and the testimony of fellow squad members, then subjected to a REAL debriefing until the truth comes out of him, his story, the truth, will be pretty simple and clear cut. He may indeed be a whack job. But he was a soldier. He deserted. His desertion cost lives and he needs to be held accountable for those lives as well as his desertion.

Another issue I have with Bergdahl crossed my mind. In an article of his words and emails from another thread, he stated in so many words that he did not like the Coast Guard and “faked a psychiatric disorder” (my paraphrase) to get out. The Army knew this and gave him a pass on recruitment. That being the case, which I believe was not and he in fact did have psychiatric problems which the Coast Guard discharged him for, begs a question. From the time he hit boot camp, through AIT, then assignment to a unit, to the knowledge they were being deployed, to arrival in Afghanistan, then spending time on the line, he could have done the same thing. In fact right up until he decided to desert, he could have gone to the doctors, pulled the psychiatric trump card, with full evidence and support from his Coast Guard discharge and asked to be relieved for his same stated reasons. I believe the Army would have taken him up on it, sent him home and discharged him accordingly. Yet he did not do that at any time. He instead CHOSE his path all the way to the night he decided to walk off his post and desert. No psychiatric excuses he can claim in my mind. No excuses in fact whatsoever, except he decided to be a traitor to his country and supported that position by deserting his post and walking over to the enemy.

To state the obvious, there are two distinct issues here and, it occurs to me, the administration would like the two to be confused or, at least, accepted without any degree of separation. The first is Bergdahl and all of the ugliness and strangeness that goes with him personally and his sudden disappearance. The administration would like us to believe that he was captured by the enemy and that his capture alone accords him so sort of hero status. Aside from the fact that there is not anything heroic in itself about being captured, there is a legitimate question about whether Bergdahl surrendered or otherwise willingly delivered himself to the enemy. Distinct from that matter is the question of how he came to be released (not captured) and the administration’s decision to free five terrorists in exchange for that release. On the day this story broke, Obama invoked the false but attractive slogan “No one is left behind.” He also appeared at the dais without the secretary of defense, Chuckles Hagel. It is guessed that the West Wing gang anticipated that Obama’s announcement would be a credit to him and that there was no need to share the expected adulation with anyone. Bergdahl’s father did appear with Obama and eyebrows immediately arose. Instead of viewing a happy Dad, the American public saw him and asked, “What the hell is that? What did he just say? Pashtu?” And when the country learned that five terrorists had been secretly and illegally and unilaterally exchanged by Obama for Bergdahl, all hell broke loose. A week later that administration couldn’t say often enough that “The secretary of defense signed off on the agreement” and even the most ardent Obama loyalists had no good answer for why he negotiated with terrorists, failed to consult Congress, and unilaterally caused terrorists to be freed so that they may kill, maim, and terrorize again. Bergdah’s capture. Berghdah’s release. They ought never to be confused.