Obama is always looking for ways to further weaken the other branches of government, so he seeks out sympathetic causes which he can use as an excuse to break the law. He got very sloppy this time, and didn’t realize that this particular breach of the law isn’t popular with anyone.
Now he is apologizing in hopes of avoiding impeachment.
http://shoebat.com/2014/06/02/father-soldier-obama-released-declares-muslim-victory-call-obama-smiles-soon-hears-war-cry-allah/
Methinks he overplayed the hand. Gonna be damned hard for the MSM to apologize and spin all this.
Picking a sympathetic cause to convince the public to allow them more power is SOP. They play their games of risk and other things with that power. Often what they are really doing is contrary to the excuses they used for the public. Usually team politics and some other nonsense allows the public to deal with it. However, at some points they go a little too far and the discontinuities are too big for the public to grasp. This might be one of them.
The mission is a disaster, his desires are clear, and his objectives MAY be reached …
How long did the Roman Empire last?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Roman_Empire
TOO many more Obamas and you can kiss this ‘experiment’ good bye.
Thanks, libs.
Detroit, Benton Harbor, East St. Louis, Chicago – they ALL have something in common – any of you libs care to take a stab at what that might be?
Obviously it’s too many wreckers & saboteurs. We need to violently purge everyone who doesn’t toe the party line. It’s a good thing our beautiful & non-wookie-like First Lady is making sure children get the vital information about wreckers & saboteurs to the correct authorities.
Nudie bars?
Baseless claim! Unless of course you have links you are willing to share, and/or websites, with which you base this most outrageous of claims.
Obviously the answer is Baptist churches.
The Little Dic has convinced himself that the war with Islam is over. The enemy has a very long memory and is still fighting the crusades.
The only reason they are enemies is because the US federal government has been interfering in their business since the end of WW2 if not WW1. Stop screwing with them, stop supporting various governments over there, and most of the problems would go away as they would go back to killing to each other. Perhaps if with those US supported governments out of the way they might be able to make some economic progress.
The only problem is that as you point out they aren’t about to forget what was done to them. They aren’t like americans who think what happened a few hours ago was a long time ago and best forgotten.
Yes, the Siege of Vienna (1529) was caused by the US meddling in the Middle East in the 1920s. Got it.
It’s that telekinetic linkage back into history thing; we need a preemptive crime and thought police detail to assure that this never happens again … /sarc, if I need it.
B: Stark is pulling your leg because what he says is impossible from a timeline point of view (you can look it up).
The Islamists are pissed because of the Charles Martel diplomatic blunder when he was rude to them at Tours in 732 AD. Martel also pissed off other Austrasians, Neustrians, Burgundians, Friesians, Saxons and Bavarians and who knows whom else. One of these days it’s all gonna come to a screeching halt over there.
Long before 2001 I went to school with a number of people from the middle east here in the US of A. We got to talking a few times. Nobody gives two shits about what americans do here at home, how we live, if we are free or not. What they care about is the federal government meddling in their affairs, supporting governments that rule over them, etc and so forth. What was desert storm considered? And excuse to have troops over there. To meddle more in their affairs.
Americans are a bunch of dupes and have been since the 19th century. Lied into wars and into meddling that has zero to do with ordinary americans. Zero. If the US federal government hadn’t started screwing with them in the 1940s and 50s there would never have been any issue what so ever. Are these middle eastern peoples attacking Brazil? No. Brazil is irrelevant to them and if the US federal government hadn’t messed with them it too would be irrelevant to them.
This is for B and his dumbassery
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/8424929/Brazil-latest-base-for-Islamic-extremists.html
Only really took 5 seconds.
Any govt “supported” (whatever that means) by the USA is bad any govt. not “supported” by the USA is inherently good. Must be Susan Rice checking in.
What if the US federal government started taking handouts from China and in return started changing laws favorable to China? Oh wait that’s what happened through campaign contributions. What about Israel and their lobbies? What if people started disappearing for speaking out against a US federal government in the pocket of some foreign nation? How would that make you feel? What if this condition reduced your lifestyle to one of poverty? How about then?
The US federal government creates/supports governments in the middle east that are tyrannies. Poverty, dispair, people disappearing. Why? For insider corporate profits, the thrill of power for politicians, the excuse to have wars…. the profits from wars. What if some other country did that here? Would you get angry enough to do something about it? Do you think someone else might? People over there aren’t crazy, the american public doesn’t have all the facts nor the empathy to figure it out.
OBVIOUSLY, you have never read the koran, OR are lying!
Until 634 Jerusalem had been Roman territory. The crusades were organized to reconquer muslim invaded land from the Roman Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
Christianity was also fighting the muslim occupation in Spain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spanish_reconquista.gif
Never forget that Istanbul (Constantinople) had been cristian from 313 – 1453, 1140 years . Muslim it has only been for 561 years.
Like in climate we should have a very long memory .
I doubt there are many liberals here. I had no idea that he in fact probably was a deserter or that six died in trying to save his butt.
I would be willing to do a lot (travel a distance) to honor the six.
I hope that he realizes the full implication of the consequences of his choice and it weighs heavily on him for the rest of his life. Having been in the military in Nam days and later, it increases the wonderment of how he could do something so selfish and so completely stupid.
We never leave one behind–accept that in this case his demise was not only a bad choice, but intentional.
I especially want to thank Ann Althouse* for this disaster, no, for this fiasco of a president.
Ann, you ignorant slut! What were you thinking!! (She voted for the bstrd.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80nW6AOhTs
* http://althouse.blogspot.com/
I always thought the weasel was unfairly compared to LLPOS.
One scandal after the other. Its hard to keep up.
+1000
Now if only the Sheeple would notice and Kick Them All Out!
There really is not much difference between the two parties any more. You can see this as the Republicans turn on the Tea Party, who SHOULD be their grassroots support.
SEE: America’s Ruling Class
What is said in the excerpt at the bottom is validated by Rasmussen polls. (NOTE:several links are include to specific polls in the original. I did not copy them.)
Excerpt
Impeachment won’t make it through the Senate unless we get a new majority leader, so that’s in 2015 or so, assuming the R’s win and have the intestinal fortitude. And if you impeach Obama, who becomes President?
It’s liars all the way down …
You just keep booting them out until to reach an honest one. If that means they all get fired, who’s going to complain?
Say this guy get’s tried for desertion and ends up doing hard labor, and then there’s a big incident in a year or so involving one of the 5 released guys. If that happens, I think it wouldn’t matter what that makeup of the Senate is. By ignoring the law that required 30 day notification, it leaves that door open. Any bad terror incident due to those 5 and the Dems aren’t going to support a lame duck, particularly when it then risks 2016, by having a weak administration finish out.
From what I’ve read, he went AWOL in a combat zone. I believe that to be desertion. Desertion seems to hang on whether he intended to return. I bet his lawyer will argue that he intended to return but couldn’t because he was a hostage.
The skuttlebutt is he left a note renouncing his US citizenship…
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/03/wartime-messages-to-parents-fellow-soldiers-reveal-troubled-bergdahl/
If he was a deserter who renounced his citizenship, (and the letter doesn’t not mysteriously disappear) that ups the complaints against Obummer to the T word since he is the Commander in Chief and therefore KNOWS what is happening, or at least is supposed to. He certainly had the time to be briefed.
Either way it supports the notion that Obummer is not Christian and his sympathy lies elsewhere adding to Obama bowing to Saudi King Abdullah
Obviously ya gotta do Biden too. He’s non compos mentis .
That leaves us with Boner.
Impeachment in any format is wishful thinking.
When invoking the role of Commander in Chief in support of the security of the Nation, a president has authority to do just about anything. This is what allowed Abraham Lincoln to write and execute the Emancipation Proclamation.
As “gofer” at 3:12 am says, there are so many nasty things going on during this administration that it is hard to keep up. This episode is going to get a lot of air time – until the next scandal breaks.
The next 2 elections will be interesting. (Lots of GOP seats up for grabs in 2016 as well as the top office.)
Impeachment wont happen. I would love to think it would. This will get swepped under the carpet like everything else. Political affirmative action at its finest.
The official line is:
They were going to have to cut those 5 loose at the end of the year anyway. Apparently they claim they could not get enough evidence to actually charge them with a crime and they only have authority to hold them till the end of the year so they “might as well get something for them” rather than have to release them for nothing.
What that SMELLS like is “we weren’t ever going to really make an effort at charging them with anything even though several of these guys are wanted for war crimes by the UN”.
My theory is that Obama is always looking for ways to deflect attention from his latest screwup. This worked on the VA scandal, which worked on ObamaCare, etc. Expect his next bold move. He will either attack Canada over tar sands or elope with Bergdahl.
Did Obama use the Gitmo Swap as a way to bumb the VA scandal out of the headlines: http://www.teaparty.org/did-obama-use-gitmo-swap-as-a-way-to-bump-va-scandal-out-of-headlines-43397/
And the CO2 reduction scheme?
Prisoner Swap was opposed in 2011
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/06/03/former-house-chairwoman-confirms-she-opposed-guatanamo-prisoner-swap-back-in-2011/
Swap plus 5-6 million USD: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/06/03/Oliver-North-I-Know-A-Ransom-5-6-Million-Was-Paid-to-Free-Bergdahl
http://youtu.be/N3PLaZsFmtk
Obama is just pursuing his own jihad, which is all he knows how to do.
…his own ignorant, unforgiving jihad, which is the only kind that Islam (I-Salaam, or “no peace”) dictates.
Maybe the truth of President Obama’s motive is exactly what he says it is. We are winding down the Afghanistan war and we need to tidy up the loose ends before we go. We don’t leave our people behind. If this guy gets home and is guilty of what is being speculated, we will deal with it. We also need to deal with Gitmo. Put them on trial, get them in regular jail; or ship them out. We need to get this Afghanistan situation to a more manageable situation. Hyper partisan hatred of the President just seems stupid.
Bergdahl is no longer ‘our people’. He made that clear.
The “people” the Laughingstock-in-Chief supposedly represents are generally disgusted with the series of disasters emanating from DC.
From Fast and Furious to Bengazi, to the VA scandal to Obamacare, the people have had enough of the current emperor of the US. And he can’t blame it all on Booosh……
matayaya says:
June 4, 2014 at 10:31 am
You’re a lot easier to understand when you take Obama’s cock out of your mouth before speaking.
When did we go to war with Afghanistan? How does leaving that country, except for 9,800 who will remain, mean all those at Gitmo are set loose? Most of them are/were Saudis. Afghanis were only 3% of the remaining back in 2004. I guess no one need worry anymore as Al Qaeda Core is on the run, or in decline or whatever.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/guantanamo_nationalities.html
Except of course that the Boston bombers, the Ft. Hood Shooter, the underwear bomber, the guys who attacked in Benghazi, the guys who killed that solider in London, and many other terrorists won’t disappear no matter what happens in Afghanistan.
Apparently, those “hyper-partisan” critics include his own party:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/06/03/ruppersberger-call-taliban-prisoner-exchange-a-dangerous-precedent/
Quit deluding yourself of what this is: A criminal act. A likely treasonous act.
Actually he broke the law because he has done it so many times in the past, with no consequences. He has no reason to obey the law. And he knows it.
Absent partisan blinders, he made a legal executive decision. Presidents have always released prisoners when wars end. Besides, this Congress is dysfunctional and the timing dictated it be done quickly.
Even CNN’s legal analyst says Skeeter broke the law. You are the partisan idiot in the room.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jeffrey-toobin-obama-clearly-broke-the-law-on-bergdahl/
matayaya gets talking points straight from moveon.org and the DNC. Partisan hack. Get a life.
Trolls like Matayaya serve a purpose. Most are incredulous about the things being pontificated about, and Steve then writes about them. How can people be so stupid, we ask? Matayaya provides the answer.
re: philjourdan June 5, 2014 at 3:10 pm
… How can people be so stupid, we ask? Matayaya provides the answer.
Fortunately, I had my cup of coffee SAFELY back from my lips and away from the keyboard while reading the above; nice one phil.
Coffee cup control is not as important as trigger finger and muzzle control but one benefits from good habits.
Always assume a comment you are about to read is loaded.
When did the “war” end? Because he gave a speech saying so? I seem to have missed the headline where Al Qaieda said, get out of Afghanistan and we’ll leave you alone. Even the chosen one just yesterday acknowledged that these guys might be back on the battlefield. Which I guess by definition means even he knows it is not over.
There was a war ?
It ended ?
Who won ?
No he did not. You can argue it is a good decision or a correct decision, but the law is clear., He broke the law. If you took off your partisan blinders you would see that. Even members of your own wing acknowledge that.
The law does not care your intentions when breaking it. That is up to the judge during sentencing.
Lamest excuse in the book – Congress is dysfunctional. Uh, excuse me – it was designed to be a governor of a runaway federal government! Try learning.
Speaking of VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
Voters headed to polls for primaries in 8 states yesterday
Alabama
California
Iowa
Mississippi
Montana
New Mexico
New Jersey
South Dakota
Make sure you vote.
Not until next week for me. The establishment clown is calling the challenger a liar for saying that congress is exempt from Insider trading laws. DUH!!!! They are! Creep.
B. Hussein is very loyal… but only to leftism and his leftist cohorts. As you see GITMO is still a cause célèbre among hardcore leftists as Mata Yaya demonstrates. Hussein is just fulfilling his pledge to the mata yayas of this world. He’s also cleaning up some loose ends of his surrender campaign for a clean cut & run. There’s also the side benefit of once again rubbing it in the face of middle America. Leftists live for this.
If Obama had a son, he’d be just like Bergdahl – a deserter.
Indeed, if Obama had been in the military, he would have been a deserter. As Commander-in-Chief, he is returning assets to our enemy. That is worse than desertion.
This should be charge number one against Skeeter…
“Dereliction of duty is a specific offense under United States Code Title 10,892. Article 92 and applies to all branches of the US military. A service member who is derelict has willfully refused to perform his duties (or follow a given order) or has incapacitated himself in such a way that he cannot perform his duties. Such incapacitation includes the person falling asleep while on duty requiring wakefulness, his getting drunk or otherwise intoxicated and consequently being unable to perform his duties, shooting himself and thus being unable to perform any duty, or his vacating his post contrary to regulations.”
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereliction_of_duty
Or maybe charge number one should be treason…
What I would like to know is if these 5 guys were so obviously terrorists why couldn’t they be convicted in a court of law? That’s what allowed them to be traded so easily, they were not convicted of anything!
Civil court? Like you or I might face?
Any court.
When was the last time any charges against anybody were filed in a so-called civilian court for being ‘an enemy combatant’?
http://www.politifake.org/image/political/1403/obama-vs-putin-one-these-guys-spies-his-entire-country-execu-politics-1393933387.jpg