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Leaving one behind..

Steve

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Obama has a tendancy to not care about details or who is under his bus..

but we need to start holding him accountable.. and this is a good point to start that fight.. we can all call or write to our representatives and force them to listen..

our forgotten soldier..
Since then, the Taliban have released five videos showing him in captivity. The Taliban originally demanded $1 million[7] and the release of 21 Afghan prisoners and Aafia Siddiqui in exchange for Bergdahl's release. They threatened to execute Bergdahl if Siddiqui was not released. Most of the Afghan prisoners are being held at Guantanamo Bay.[8][9] The Taliban later reduced its demand to five Taliban prisoners in exchange for Bergdahl's release.

The missing serviceman's fate is tied up in U.S. efforts to broker a peace deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government, a high-level, high-risk diplomatic initiative which appeared to be on the cusp of a breakthrough before the Taliban suspended preliminary talks in March 2012.[citation needed] For months, U.S. negotiators were seeking to arrange the transfer of five Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo Bay military prison to the Gulf state of Qatar. The transfer was intended as one of a series of confidence-building measures designed to open the door to political talks between the Taliban and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government.[31] That move - at the center of U.S. strategy for ending the long, costly conflict in Afghanistan - was also supposed to lead directly to Bowe's release. The Taliban has consistently called for the United States to release those held at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for freeing Western prisoners. But the Guantanamo transfer proposal, which would have required notification to Congress, ground to a halt when the Taliban rejected U.S. conditions designed to ensure transferred Taliban would not slip away and re-emerge as military leaders. The Obama administration has since become pessimistic[further explanation needed] that any such peace deal with the Taliban will occur before the bulk of NATO forces leave in 2014.[32]

But notably absent from the discussion has been any commitment from President Obama that the country will not leave its own behind. After refusing interviews for nearly three years, Bergdahl’s parents briefly broke their silence earlier this month.

“(President Obama) has never contacted us,” Sgt. Bergdahl’s mother, Jani Bergdahl, told the New York Times
 

hypocritexposer

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The US government has awarded more than $150m (£98m) in contracts to companies and individuals in Afghanistan that are known to support the Taliban, according to a US spending watchdog.

Multimillion dollar contracts have been given over the past five years to 43 companies working in construction, logistics, road building and IT that have links to the insurgents.

The head of the US-based Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Sigar), John F Sopko, said: "Dating back to 2008, Sigar has identified more than $150m in reconstruction contracts and sub-contracts that have been awarded to companies known to be providing material support to insurgent and terrorist organisations in Afghanistan."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-backers-win-100m-in-us-contracts-8744952.html


WASHINGTON: Supporters of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting US military contracts, and American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending.

The US Army Suspension and Debarment Office has declined to act in 43 such cases, John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said on Monday in a letter accompanying a quarterly report to Congress.

“I am deeply troubled that the US military can pursue, attack, and even kill terrorists and their supporters, but that some in the US government believe we cannot prevent these same people from receiving a government contract,” Sopko said.

http://dawn.com/news/1033166/al-qaeda-taliban-backers-win-us-contracts-in-afghanistan
 

Faster horses

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And yet, the BOZOS responsible for this are still in office.

:mad: :evil: :mad: :evil: :mad: :evil:

What is it Whitewing says? "The country has gone mad."
 

loomixguy

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If 30 or so of our operators hadn't been killed in a "mysterious" Chinook helicopter "accident", we might have been able to send some folks in to rescue this gentleman.
 

Tam

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loomixguy said:
If 30 or so of our operators hadn't been killed in a "mysterious" Chinook helicopter "accident", we might have been able to send some folks in to rescue this gentleman.

If the US had a Honorable Leader, and not an incompetent twit with a need to win an election no matter the cost, as your Commander and Chief, you would not have lost 30 or so operators. You also would not have lost an Ambassador and his support team or been lied to for weeks about it . H*LL you would have any of these PHONY SCANDALS rocking the US Government right back to the Founding Fathers graves. But when you have the un-informed citizens showing up at the polls to "MAKE HISTORY" this is the crap you have to live with. Obama has proved by his own actions and those actions of his Administration the only life he cares about is his in an office he is not qualified to be enjoying on the Tax Payers Dime, Dollar, and Billion dollar.
 
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