Hat tip Commentary Magazine and Miggie
Susan Rice once again has been sent out from the White House to lie to the media. On Sunday, she said that Bowe Bergdahl served with "honor and distinction", a jaw-dropping statement given what we know know from Bergdahl's ex-comrades in arms.
Meanwhile, defenders of this swap compare it to Israel's release of over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for the release of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. There is just one problem with that comparison; Shalit never walked off his post. He never turned against his country. He was kidnapped from his border post by Hamas. Jonathan S Tobin writes in Commentary Magazine...
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/06/03/bergdahl-disgrace-not-like-israels-shalit-taliban/
And below we have another of President Obama's young national security advisers, Tony Blinken, trying to dodge Andrea Mitchell's queries about how the White House could make such a deal.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/03/white-house-backpedals-after-claiming-bergdahl-served-with-honor-and/
“Right now we’re focused on bringing him back to the United States. He hasn’t even spoken to his family yet. There’s a whole transition process that goes on.”
Wow. What they are focused on is limiting the damage.
the Shalit comparison fails for multiple reasons, the biggest being the third party affected by the taliban/AQ release: the shia (particularly those of Afghanistan and Pakistan); no mention of security assessment for them or of implications of losing the geopolitical human buffer due to genocide
ReplyDeleteIt is becoming very apparent that the criteria for working for the Obama Administration is how much one can lie, with a straight face. Obama is a master at this Lying, as he said "you can keep your plan" and "you can keep your doctor", just for starters. He is the model for his minions. But, as the verbal offerings can not pass the smell test (we know what is smelling here), we are becoming more aware of the Lier-and -Chief.
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Maybe he should have said you can keep Bowe Bergdahl.
ReplyDeleteThis administration is mainly a destruction machine with a sound bite department ready to make anything sound ok. They have willing liars to say the manufactured covering lies.
ReplyDeleteThey are literally awash in scandals and are desperately trying to get our attention on to some other event... which turns out to be another act of stupidity and another scandal.
Obama thinks he can fix things with a speech while standing on a pile of unattended to matters of state.... his tee time is the most important thing for him to get to.