{"id":50597,"date":"2014-06-11T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50597"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:01:16","slug":"bergdahl-the-special-snowflake-chuck-hagel-the-dupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50597","title":{"rendered":"Bergdahl, the special snowflake & Chuck Hagel, the dupe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> is setting up the scenario that Bowe Bergdahl was some sort of Bohemian deep thinker who was operating on an entirely different plane of existence that the rest of us wouldn’t understand. Well, that and he got booted from the Coast Guard after 28 days of basic training, or whatever it is that they call the initial training phase;<\/p>\n

Before he became a Taliban prisoner, before he wrote in his journal \u201cI am the lone wolf of deadly nothingness,\u201d before he ever joined the Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was discharged from the U.S. Coast Guard for psychological reasons, said close friends who were worried about his emotional health at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, he was allowed to join the Army because “Bush!”<\/p>\n

With two wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, the Army was meeting recruitment goals by issuing waivers that allowed people with criminal records, health conditions and other problems to enlist. According to a 2008 Army War College study on the subject, the Army was issuing waivers at a rate of one for every five recruits at the time. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

\u201cBullet sponges,\u201d [Bergdahl] wrote at one point. \u201cThis is what some of the SEALs call regular Army and other mass ground troops. Its right, the job of a soldier is to basically die.\u201d<\/p>\n

At another: \u201cLightning, there is nothing as truly beautiful as lightning .?.?.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then: \u201cPuddle of mud, skitsafrentic phyco.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was a hippie, spawn of hippies, who accidentally joined the Army. The job of a soldier is to live, actually. A dead soldier is more of a burden to the Army than a live soldier. Of course, it’d be nice of us to die the day after we leave the service, but not while we’re in. But hippies like to read that shit. They also like to read that the Army was taking the Coast Guard’s mental rejects.<\/p>\n

I guess the nature of his new chosen profession hadn’t dawned on him during marksmanship training (you know, shooting at people-shaped targets) or bayonet training (you know, stabbing people-shaped dummies and reciting the “Spirit of the Bayonet”).<\/p>\n

Bergdahl wrote all of this hippie shit to a young lady by the name of Kim Harrison. I don’t know anything about her, but I assume that she’s nice, but in my opinion, Bowe was setting her up for a booty call for when he came home. I was a teenager in uniform and I recognize the theme of his writing style. <\/p>\n

But the big news today is how Chuck Hagel testified to Congress that “time was not on our side” in regards to the negotiations for Bergdahl’s release. Funny, but the same deal was rejected in 2011 and 2012, according to the Washington Times<\/a> so basically the Obama Administration is admitting that they suck at negotiating – they had four years to negotiate a better deal, but instead they just took the first thing that had come along. Like that kid in your neighborhood who always got suckered into bad trading card and comic book swaps.<\/p>\n

From Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“We could have done a better job of keeping you informed,” Hagel acknowledged to the panel. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Translation: It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.<\/p>\n

They couldn’t negotiate to keep troops in Iraq, they can’t negotiate to keep troops in Afghanistan and they can’t negotiate so that dangerous, treacherous criminals aren’t wandering around loose in the world. I’ll betcha that I could get Hagel to trade that Mickey Mantle rookie year card for my A-Rod Yankee card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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