The lesson of this story? Never, ever, ever, EVER, EVER give Barack Obama any benefit of any doubt:
Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl converted to Islam during his captivity by the Haqqani network in Afghanistan and even declared himself a "mujahid," or warrior for Islam, Fox News reports.
Fox News obtained secret documents based on an eyewitness account of at least part of Bergdahl's five-year captivity that began when he reportedly walked off his base in June 2009.
The documents show that Bergdahl's relationship with his captors changed over time. He at one time was held in a cage after being recaptured when he had escaped. But at other times he had a seemingly friendly relationship with his captors, playing soccer and frequently laughing and using the word "salaam" – Arabic for "peace."
He also participated in target practice with his captors and was allowed to carry a gun, according to the reports.
The retort from Bergdahl's defenders? He didn't defect when he deserted. Perhaps that matters in terms of the charges that could be filed in the court martial he'll never face, but as a practical, and public relations, matter, it makes little difference. There's also the mitigating factor of his father's self-evident Islamic Fundamentalist sympathies that were on rather garish public display six days ago at the White House. If "Sergeant" Bergdahl didn't bow down to the demon "god" Allah before he "walked away from his unit," the seeds of his eventual defection were already planted and germinating. Could the next revelation be that he engaged in combat with the Taliban against U.S. forces? Stay tuned.
Bottom line is, Barack Hussein Obama [mmm-mmm-mmm] "swapped" five top-level Afghan jihadists for one bottom-dragging, traitorous American jihadist, his Regime knew who and what they were getting in return, and he ordered the deal to go forward anyway - over the objections of all his military and intelligence advisors:
Barack Obama was repeatedly advised by several of the nation's top military and intelligence officials not to engage in the prisoner swap to secure the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, which freed five senior Taliban leaders from Guantanamo prison, according to reports.
When the White House first began considering an exchange in 2011 and 2012, James Clapper, then director of National Intelligence, flat out rejected the release of the five detainees, according to the Daily Beast. Leon Panetta, former defense secretary and CIA director, also confirmed Wednesday that he was opposed to a possible Bergdahl prisoner swap during his tenure and questioned the deal Obama reached last week.
Panetta recalled that at the time discussions of a Bergdahl prisoner swap took place, "I said, 'Wait, I have an obligation under the law. If I send prisoners from Guantanamo, they have to guarantee they don't go back to the battlefield.' I had serious concerns."
He added he "just assumed it was never going to happen."
It's entirely reasonable to question just how vehemently Panetta and Clapper really objected to the idea of the Bergdahl-Taliban Dream Team trade. Their comments do sound like classic, "don't blame me, I spoke out against it" ass-covering, indicatory of both men's continued interest in having continuing careers in Washington. On the other hand, the trade did not go forward in 2011 or 2012, so perhaps their objections were heeded in a tangential sense. That being, of course, that a campaign re-election theme centered on Barack Obama being the War On Terror-winning conquering hero that - did you know? - bagged Osama bin Laden wasn't all that compatible with turning loose the five most hardcore jihadists on the planet in exchange for a worthless jihadi-symp deserter.
Of course, on the third hand, this is the same Regime that went to unauthorized war in Libya in order to turn that country over to al Qaeda, setting up the Benghazi consulate attack in which four Americans were deliberately abandoned to perish at the hands of the enemy, which was absurdly covered up by the blatant "Islamophobic youtube video/spontaneous protest" lie, and that didn't derail the Age Of The One, so maybe Panetta, Clapper, and the White House were just being worry-warts.
But there sure as shinola was no hesitation or bumbling incompetence last weekend:
Intelligence and defense officials told the Beast that the deal that was arranged was hastily done, and in a manner that suggested it was designed to squelch dissent and impose the will of the White House.
"This was an example of forcing consensus," one military official told the Beast. "The White House knew the answer they wanted, and they ended up getting it."
A mindset that insists, as George Will put it yesterday, "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
"Make no mistake about it," this was an ideological decision, one on which O had longed to pull the trigger, finally undertaken for defensive propaganda reasons. The VA scandal has proved to be the one that is finally doing serious damage to the Obamidency, and the dictator tried to exploit that crisis in order to endgame another of his ambitions, surrendering to the Taliban in Afghanistan, the crown jewel of which would be the "heroic rescue of a heroic American soldier" who had "served his country with honor and distinction". America would explode with "D-A (Defeat in Afghanistan) Day" euphoria, O's approval numbers would skyrocket into quadruple-digits, the "racist" Right and all its facts and evidence would be left splutteringly stymied once again, the Dems would take the House back in November, and O could at last wander back to the White House residence to resume playing Galaga. Oh, yes, and the Taliban could be left alone to resume mass-butchering Americans with impunity.
That last part is going to happen anyway. But all the items preceding it aren't turning out quite the way Red Barry foresaw. Not even close, as a matter of fact. Which is how you know this was an ideological decision, because False Messiah continues to defend it:
For a second time this week, Obama on Thursday defended the deal and insisted he "absolutely makes no apologies" for seeking the release of Bergdahl.... "We saw an opportunity, and we seized it. And I make no apologies for that," he said.
Yeah, he saw an opportunity, alright. An opportunity to revive the War On Terror after he's quit our side of it in the hopes of getting that elusive, 9/11-esque jihadist strike big enough to justify declaring martial law and dispensing with the remaining artifice of the gutted, crumbling façade of constitutional government. Why would he apologize for that? He thinks we can't wait for it to begin.
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