Troops Accuse "Deserter" Bergdahl

by JASmius

Another day, another set of details on Sergeant Bergdahl.  Yesterday I asked what made his life so all-fire important, given the fact that he "walked away from his unit" almost five years ago, that the Obama Regime turned loose five bloodthirsty mass-murdering jihadi kingpins just to get him back.

Now we know: He's really Michelle Obama:

According to a 2012 report in Rolling Stone, Bergdahl, now 28, had become disillusioned with his role in America's longest war, sending emails to his parents prior to his disappearance.

"The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong," Bergdahl reportedly wrote his father. "I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be american (sic). The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting."

He also attacked the Army, saying it cut down people "for being honest," and rewarded sycophants. "The title of US soldier is just the lie of fools," he wrote. "I am sorry for everything here.

"These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live.

"We don't even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks," he continued. "We make fun of them in front of their faces and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them."... 

Specialist Jason Fry told Rolling Stone that even before leaving for Afghanistan Bergdahl told him, "If this deployment is lame, I'm just going to walk off into the mountains of Pakistan." [emphasis added]

Did I mention that Bergdahl was promoted after his desertion?  I think we might just be looking at Eric Shinseki's replacement at Veterans' Affairs.  Or a Democrat congressman in the very near future.

As for his former comrades-in-arms, that's a different story.  They consider him not just a deserter, but a traitor as well:

At least six soldiers were killed in subsequent searches for Bergdahl. Moreover, CNN reported that soldiers in his platoon said attacks seemed to increase against the United States in Paktika Province in the days and weeks following his disappearance.  

Richard Grenell, a former U.S. spokesman to the United Nations and partner with Capitol Media Partners, told Newsmax that numerous soldiers who served with Bowe reached out to him to express their anger with the decision.

"I have spoken with several of Bowe Bergdahl's platoon mates and they are united in their view that Bowe walked away from them and that many lives were risked and some lost in looking for a guy who willingly left the team," Grenell said.

Former combat medic Javier Ortiz told the Washington Post, "Regardless of what you learned while being there, we still have a responsibility to the men to our left and right. It's terrible, what he did.

"There were military assets required ... but the problem came of his own accord."

Another unidentified soldier said, "The unit completely changed its operational posture because of something that was selfish, not because a soldier was captured in combat."

CNN's Jake Tapper, who embedded with and wrote a book about soldiers in Afghanistan, also found much anger.

"I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on," said former Sergeant Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl's platoon. "Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him."

So let's take a fresh tally: Bowe Bergdahl was a lukewarm soldier to begin with, didn't want to go to Afghanistan, almost promised to "walk away" once deployed, and hates his own country.  He deserted his unit and his buddies, defected to the Taliban and gave them whatever intel a lowly ground-pounder could, and they kept him alive as a future prisoner exchange bargaining chip.  And this past weekend they hit the proverbial jackpot and received from Gitmo five jihadi equivalents of the statues in the Hall of Warriors on Ty'Gokor.  For its part, the Obama Regime retrieved a self-evident fellow-traveling Ameriphobic minion who provided them with the PR cover to finish emptying Gitmo and a further distraction from, and means of counterattacking on, VA-gate.  Or so they hope.

Bowe Bergdahl is The New Army.  The Obarmy.

Remember this pic from over thirty years ago?



That was parody.  Now it's reality.

And we're not laughing.