Was Bowe Bergdahl a Deserter?
Bowe Bergdahl
By now you have heard the story of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release from Taliban captivity. This should be a feel good story, but layers keep unraveling.
Nevermind the fact that President Obama has now seemingly changed US foreign policy to include negotiation with terrorists, but word is beginning to leak that Bergdahl himself isn’t just an innocent bystander in the situation.
The following statement is from a member of Bergdahl’s unit. This is being forwarded via Bill Cowan. While we don’t have direct verification of the statements being made, Lt. Col Cowan is a trusted source.
“We were at OP Mest, Paktika Province, Afghanistan. It was a small outpost where B Co 1-501st INF (Airbone) ran operations out of, just an Infantry platoon and ANA counterparts there. The place was an Afghan graveyard.
Bergdahl had been acting a little strange, telling people he wanted to “walk the earth” and kept a little journal talking about how he was meant for better things. No one thought anything about it. He was a little “out there”.
Next morning he’s gone. We search everywhere, and can’t find him. He left his weapon, his kit, and other sensitive items. He only took some water, a compass and a knife. We find some afghan kids shortly after who saw an american walking north asking about where the taliban are. We get hits on our voice intercepter that Taliban has him, and we were close. We come to realize that the kid deserted his post, snuck out of camp and sought out Taliban… to join them.
We were in a defensive position at OP Mest, where your focus is to keep people out. He knew where the blind spots were to slip out and that’s what he did. It was supposed to be a 4-day mission but turned into several months of active searching. Everyone was spun up to find this guy. News outlets all over the country were putting out false information. It was hard to see, especially when we knew the truth about what happened and we lost good men trying to find him.
PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Murphrey, 2LT Darryn Andrews, were all KIA from our unit who died looking for Bergdahl.
Many others from various units were wounded or killed while actively looking for Bergdahl. Fighting Increased. IEDs and enemy ambushes increased. The Taliban knew that we were looking for him in high numbers and our movements were predictable. Because of Bergdahl, more men were out in danger, and more attacks on friendly camps and positions were conducted while we were out looking for him. His actions impacted the region more than anyone wants to admit.
There is also no way to know what he told the Taliban: Our movements, locations, tactics, weak points on vehicles and other things for the enemy to exploit are just a few possibilities. The Government knows full well that he deserted. It looks bad and is a good propaganda piece for the Taliban. They refuse to acknowledge it. Hell they even promoted him to Sergeant which makes me sick. I feel for his family who only want their son/brother back. They don’t know the truth, or refuse to acknowledge it as well. What he did affected his family and his whole town back home, who don’t know the truth.
Either way what matters is that good men died because of him. He has been lying on all those Taliban videos about everything since his “capture”. If he ever returns, he should be tried under the UCMJ for being a deserter and judged for what he did. Bergdahl is not a hero, he is not a soldier or an Infantryman. He failed his brothers. Now, sons and daughters are growing up without their fathers who died for him and he will have to face that truth someday.”
I have not seen it reported that soldiers died looking for him except here. I have also not seen the Administration waving the victory flag over it. And the Secretary of defense has said prosecution of dereliction of duty will occur in due course.
So are we saying that because his sense of duty was flawed we should leave him to die with them? That because he is broken he is not deserving to be returned to his family? If so, I say hogwash. Let he who is sinless cast the first stone at this boy.
Zon, why are you projecting your pedophile fantasies on to this traitor? He is not a boy.
I saw some tweets from his dad that were deleted and some that weren’t. Sounds like they sympathize with the push for the Global Caliphate. So radical he probably says Spain is occupied territory.
Christian, I agree there are legitimate questions surrounding the disappearance of Bergdahl, but how is it that you know the truth, and know the government is lying to us, while his family and town do not?
Maybe we’re all jumping the gun and Barry W. Bush is going to zap these guys with a drone now that he’s let them go?”
I’d bet they all have transponder implants they’re unaware of. Is that cynical or admiration?
They’ve all been running around in the open in Qatar as easy targets. Of course it’s a cynical comment. Barry W. Bush would never hit them with a drone. As someone else said cynically, they aren’t American Citizens.
a view from beyond the left/right paradigm;
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/06/karen-kwiatkowski/go-bowe/
Here’s a better one from a decidedly Left Wing POV. Had anyone in the Georgie W. Bush Administration read it, things might have been different.
http://books.google.com/books?id=yOtThPNqKP8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+bear+went+over+the+mountain&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wmyQU9OQFIqbyATb8oLACQ&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20bear%20went%20over%20the%20mountain&f=false
What is the basis for the attacks on Bergdahl? Apparently, the answer is that Bergdahl, like pro-football star Pat Tillman who turned down a $3.6 million contract to join the Army Rangers and go to defend freedom in Afghanistan, came down with a case of doubts about the war. Originally Pat Tillman’s death was attributed to his heroic action and enemy fire. Then it emerged that Tillman was a victim of “friendly fire.” Many concluded that he was murdered, because the government did not want a sports hero speaking out about the war. As Bergdahl is off the battlefield, he has to be murdered in the press–like Russia, China, Iran, Putin, Assad, Crimeans, and the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine.
In America hate and the cultivation of hate is alive and well. But not a single moral virtue is.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/06/lies-grow-audacious-paul-craig-roberts/