{"id":145491,"date":"2023-08-07T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145491"},"modified":"2023-08-07T14:13:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T18:13:39","slug":"bowe-bergdahl-to-face-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145491","title":{"rendered":"Waltz: Bowe Bergdahl Should Face Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bergdahl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bergdahl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bergdahl.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bergdahl-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Waltz on FoxNews is suggesting that Bowe Bergdahl should face charges for the men that were killed and wounded as a direct result of them looking for him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/traitor-bowe-bergdahl-must-face-justice-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u2018Traitor\u2019 Bowe Bergdahl must face justice for his crimes<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>8 Americans were killed and dozens wounded trying to find &#8216;traitor&#8217; Bowe Bergdahl<\/em><br \/>\nBy Rep. Michael Waltz | Fox News<\/p>\n<p>In July, many veterans who served in Afghanistan and took part in the search for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl were stunned by the news that the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia had vacated the 2017 court-martial convictions against Bergdahl.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who were deployed at the time, the vacated case not only reopened old wounds from a forgotten war but highlighted the grave injustices surrounding Bergdahl\u2019s grossly lenient sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Bergdahl deserted his firebase in eastern Afghanistan at the height of the war against the Taliban and other terrorist groups. As then-President Obama ordered a surge of troops into Afghanistan in an attempt to break the downward slide in the war, our operations at the time came to an immediate halt as Bergdahl went missing.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, an estimated eight Americans were killed and dozens seriously wounded in militant-occupied areas attempting to locate the deserter.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. forces in the region were ordered to shift away from their objectives to defeat the Taliban in order to search for Bergdahl. I led a task force of Green Berets, who along with every unit in the eastern half of the country, searched for Bergdahl to no avail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can still picture that event in the Rose Garden at the White House when Bergdahl&#8217;s parents spoke in the language of Bowe&#8217;s captors.\u00a0 That was special.<\/p>\n<p>There weren&#8217;t many yellow ribbons tied around the ol&#8217; oak tree once the truth bubbled to the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Waltz on FoxNews is suggesting that Bowe Bergdahl should face charges for the men that &hellip; <a title=\"Waltz: Bowe Bergdahl Should Face Charges\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145491\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waltz: Bowe Bergdahl Should Face Charges<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":145492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,5,336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-politics","category-pow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}