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I agree with you but this is probably saving our country a lot of money.
Suppose they put him in prison and treat him for PTSD for another 30 years or so? That would be expensive. I hadn't thought about it that way, just issue a DD and throw him out on the street and let him die a homeless, unemployable psychotic PTSD victim.
There is no justice for him in any life here on earth.
1. He paid some dues as a POW. he was not treated very well.
2. He's an idiot.
3. The Army shares some blame for allowing him to enlist after washing out of Coast Guard basic training.
4. He has a personality disorder.
5. He was not a traitor, he did not abandon the U.S., nor try to commit espionage; he was a deserter - there is a difference. He was only thinking of himself.
I am not defending what he did, only that he did not do it with malice aforethought.
That is not actually his worst crime and since it is hard to prove, in his case, that he intended to not come back then the case would be dicey at best. His truly criminal act is what happened to other servicemen due to his actions, that should have been given a harsh sentence. He will wear the Mark for the rest of his life, and it will still not be anything close to actual justice.
Clearly Bowe should never have been able to join the Army, as he was dropped from the Air Force for psych reasons. Yet in 2008 the Army was hurting for bodies and Bowe was able to get a waiver for that and join the Army.
But this is an interesting article from over a year ago with some important details:
The Pentagon’s inconvenient problem here is that the Army has never explained why Andrews, or any infantry platoon, was searching for Bergdahl nearly two months after officials believed his captors had moved him to Pakistan. As Newsweek reported in April, elite Army units were waved off the search within a week of his disappearance, and military sources told ABC News on July 20 that Bergdahl was in Pakistan. Pentagon public affairs insisted he wasn’t, and in an interview that day in New Delhi, India, then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dodged the question.
It all leads to the troubling question: Why search for Bergdahl in Afghanistan when solid intelligence placed him in another country? Several military sources—enlisted men and officers—tell Newsweek the Army used the Bergdahl crisis to gain a strategic advantage in the war. “It was common knowledge that commanders in the field used searching for Bergdahl as a justification for more aggressive tactics to achieve stability in the area,” the former senior Defense Department official says. “Everyone knew it was going on.”
Interesting. Special Operators stopped looking for Bowe within a week of his disappearance once they had intel that Bowe was moved to Pakistan. However, conventional units did not act on that intel and kept searching for him. Things that make you wonder...
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Not one of those claims can be verified. No one in 2nd Platoon was killed after Bergdahl was captured. Bergdahl did not defect. He did not tell anyone in his platoon he wanted to join the Taliban. His platoon was not engaged in combat when he left. His calls were not intercepted, because he did not make any calls.
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A platoon mate of Bergdahl’s who knew him best is of two minds. “He was my friend, but at the same time I resent him,” he tells Newsweek. “He screwed the guys. You don’t do that to the guys. That’s who you depend on. That’s it. That’s all we have.” He wants to see him dishonorably discharged, but, like Dahl, does not believe Bergdahl should go to jail for a lengthy sentence. “I think he was just a dude that made a really, really messed-up decision. He paid for it. He paid for it dearly.” But in the end, he adds, “you gotta forgive people. I’m a Christian. God forgave all of us. It’d be pretty arrogant of me not to forgive.”
I think that probably did work in Bergdahl's favor. He was able to claim he could not get a fair trial and therefore pleaded out, citing Trump's harsh statements.
Nixon did the same stupid thing with Manson, and had to withdraw his prejudicial declaration of guilt.
These authoritarian types just have to have their opinion known, and appear to be oblivious to the judicial process.
That's interesting -- you are essentially claiming that the Military Judge is such a "Trump Hater" that he is happy to allow a deserter to the enemy, who caused the deaths of those searching for him ...... FREE-FREE
After he plead Guilty to all Charges.
All because of President Trump is President of the USA instead of the Great Obama or Queen Hillary.
Very interesting.
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