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>> Rocket...would there be any threshold in which you might change your mind...and say...the President just didn't do the right thing here.
BTW...I know someone stationed at Gitmo this very day....the feeling there is not as you believe it to be...
@Fairlane67:
Fairlane I understand not every soldier will agree which is why I keep saying most. I have spoke with other veterans who state the opposite. They agree with the no one left behind concept but dislikes this guy based upon what we think we know about him. We also discussed what was the alternative? Leave him behind to be ultimately executed by his captors? Would that have been justice? Those are some pretty weighty questions.
Which is why in answer to your first question I continue to think he did right. As Commander in Chief he has to abide by the no one left behind credo also. I sure he spent some sleepless nights making this decision. I can imagine his advisors kicking this thing around like a football. But ultimately as a former member of the military myself, I would think most soldiers would reason if our government would move heaven and earth to save this scumbag, I know they'll come and get me if I were to become a prisoner. And that hope might be the only thing that sustains a future POW. The knowledge that they too will not be forgotten.
@rocket:
When you say 'most" you are implying that those that disagree are a select few and incorrect...That is a complete assumption on your part, in which you are asserting as fact.
Secondly, At this point, it is a complete assumption that this person was an actual POW.
@Fairlane67:
In keeping with my desire not to run around circles on this I will post one last thing. When I say most it's a hypothesis. Just like another person would say I think most veterans would disagree with the move. Secondly, as to whether BB was a POW that's what administration officials have referred to him as. I have posted links to that in one of my previous responses. However I will paste a link from Fox News of all places. You will note that in the link DS Hagel refers to the swap for BB as a prisoner exchange -
www.foxnews.com/poli tics/2014/06/01/hage l-arrives-in-afghani stan-says-bergd
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An additional statement which I had posted earlier in the thread -
From the Washington Post -
(Susan) Rice, however, insisted that Obama acted within his power as commander in chief, framing the choice as one to secure the release of a prisoner of war who had been captured in battle — rather than one that amounts to negotiating with terrorists.
"Sergeant Bergdahl wasn't simply a hostage, he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield," Rice said. "Regardless of who may be holding an American prisoner of war, we must do our best to bring him or her back."
