Good day all. Some of you may remember Bowe Bergdahl. He was feted a few years ago by Barack Obama after he traded several dangerous terrorists for him. There was just one problem that the Obama Regime hoped would go away.
Begdahl wasn’t captured in battle, he was a deserter who got caught trying to run away. Once this all came out, along with the knowledge that other military personnel were wounded or killed trying to find him, Obama and his cronies tried to make this go away. Now, Bergdahl who is facing a court martial and very long prison term, has decided to plead guilty. Here are the details from Fox News:
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty Monday at Fort Bragg to charges he endangered comrades by walking away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009 — the court case wrapping up three years after a stunning Rose Garden spectacle in which former President Barack Obama, flanked by Bergdahl’s parents, triumphantly announced the soldier’s release from captivity.
“I understand that leaving was against the law,” said Bergdahl, whose decision to walk off his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009 prompted intense search and recovery missions, during which some of his comrades were seriously wounded and other soldiers died.
“At the time, I had no intention of causing search and recovery operations,” Bergdahl said, but he added he now understand that his decision prompted efforts to find him.
Begdahl was looking at 5 years for the desertion charge and life on the charge of Misbehavior before the Enemy. Frankly, he should be hanged or shot, but we don’t do that anymore. What a change this is from a few years ago when Der Fubar was crowing about his “Successful negotiations.”
Bergdahl, 31, was released in May 2014 after a highly-criticized deal in which five Taliban terrorists were set free. At the time, Obama administration officials said Bergdahl had “served with honor and distinction.”
Bergdahl’s punishment won’t be known until after the judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, holds the sentencing hearing that’s expected to start on Oct. 23.
I have a few suggestions, as do a few people I know who have served in the Army.
Serious wounds to service members who searched for Bergdahl are expected to play a role in his sentencing. While guilty pleas would allow him to avoid a trial, he’d still face a sentencing hearing in late October. Bergdahl’s five years of captivity by the Taliban and its allies also will likely play a role in what punishment he receives.
A role in his sentence? How about calling it “Good Training” for his future life behind bars?
At one point during his captivity, Bergdahl converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a “mujahid,” or warrior for Islam, Fox News reported in 2014, citing secret documents prepared on the basis of a purported eyewitness account.
That firing squad is looking better and better by the minute. I wonder why they didn’t add Treason to the list of charges? I’m not a lawyer, but I think, if this is accurate, it reaches the constitutional level of Treason. Here’s what Article 3, Section 3 of the United States Constitution calls Treason:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
I’ll let you decide if this charge should have been added. If he had been convicted, we could of hanged the bastard.
Legal scholars have said several pretrial rulings against the defense have given prosecutors leverage to pursue stiff punishment against Bergdahl, The Associated Press reported.
Perhaps most significant was the judge’s decision in June to allow evidence of serious wounds to service members who searched for Bergdahl at the sentencing phase. The judge ruled a Navy SEAL and an Army National Guard sergeant wouldn’t have wound up in separate firefights that left them wounded if they hadn’t been searching for Bergdahl.
And that should have earned Bergdahl a noose and a short drop.
“We may as well go back to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs that got what they wanted,” Bergdahl said to a British filmmaker in 2016 when asked about trials, according to an interview obtained by ABC News. “The people who want to hang me, you’re never going to convince those people.”
So it looks like Bergdahl went to the Felonia von Pantsuit school of personal responsibility. Blame everyone else for his own actions. I guess there are some people that drill instructors simply can’t beat the stupid out of, no matter how far up a recruit’s ass he inserts his boot.
Bergdahl is going to spend some significant quality time in a military prison. For added justice, I would put photographs of all the military people who were killed or wounded looking for this worthless piece of dirt. Hopefully, the judge in the case won’t be one of those “Oh your poor misguided boy.” types and will throw the book at him.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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As a vet, but more so even as just an American, absolutely nothing has disgusted me more in my lifetime than the memory of that bozo traitor from Kenya in the Rose Garden with the totally weirdo parents of that other traitor.