Sgt Bergdahl released (Congress, Taliban, soldiers, Obama)

[pollyrobin]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

Because we are a nation of laws. No matter how many of you wish we were a nation ruled by public opinion.

Great post.
Now, do you think President Obama broke the law?

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by pknopp

Playing football is what is being done. The administration admitted that releasing these guys was a real risk. The question people are asking is whose life should be at risk here.

Conservatives are the ones playing politics here. Sorry, but that's the truth.

The President was confronted with an American being held captive whose health was at risk, and he responded to the situation as an emergency. The German doctors who've been treating Bergdahl seem to think he's very fragile, which would support the President's decisions in this case.

[pollyrobin]

Originally Posted by ChuteTheMall

Why hide the truth? His name is Barack Hussein Obama. What are you ashamed of, Milhouse?

It just seems you are doing it in a derogatory manner - I apologize if I misread that.

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by iowa4430

DC? Are you going to answer this?



I figured that would result in the tail between the legs departure. Business as usual for the Anti-American left

I did answer it.

Now apologize for this tail between the legs remark.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

It says he's a captive of our enemy with whom we are at war. Again, with the parsing.

No parsing. The U.S. has never classified Bergdahl as a POW. Period.

The U.S. Military specifically repeatedly refered to him as a deserter and even though knowing where he was, chose multiple times to not risk troops to retrieve him. Again, because he was determined to be a deserter.

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by Teddy52

Last sentence is quite far fetched.

For the 1,0000th time you fail to acknowledge that congress drew up a c ontract an d Barack HUSSEIN Obama signed the contract .

It stated that the president...........must notify congress before any prisoners of GITMO are trasnsferred out.

You know that, yet BELIBERATELY leave that out in defending Barack HUSSEIN Obama !!!!!!

The contract has provisions for emergency situations.

When an American has been held captive for five years, and a video shows a serious deterioration in his mental and physical well-being, a case can be made for it being an emergency situation.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

Remuneration does not equal prisoner exchange.

Remuneration is compensation. A 5 to 1 exchange of high-ranking Taliban officials for a deserter is heavily lop-sided remuneration. Obama violated known policy.

[pollyrobin]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

Conservatives are the ones playing politics here. Sorry, but that's the truth.

The President was confronted with an American being held captive whose health was at risk, and he responded to the situation as an emergency. The German doctors who've been treating Bergdahl seem to think he's very fragile, which would support the President's decisions in this case.

I have a question. Wouldn't any American being held captive have their health at risk.
They could be killed or severely injured at any time. So why have a law stating notifying Congress,
if the health issue would apply to just about everyone and anyone held captive.

[mohawkx]

Originally Posted by pollyrobin

So if President Obama broke the law, when can we expect impeachment hearings?

BTW, using Obama's middle name really doesn't add anything to either argument, so why use it?

The president has always maintained the right to deal with POWs any way he likes through his role as Commander in Chief and through executive order. Note that the 30 day "law" was not that he had to get permission from congress, only that he had to notify them in advance. So Congress has always recognized the president's power to deal with POWs any way he chose to do so.

I hope the republicans get this in front of the SCOTUS or any other body of law as soon as possible so they can cease tilting windmills and move on to more important matters like repealing Obamacare for the 57th time or creating another hearing on the Benghazi incident. Maybe work on Cantor's budget proposal to defund the VA system to the tune of billions in cuts.

you know, the important stuff.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

So, you think Bergdahl should have been left behind?

Deserters have been left behind in the course of every war.