Enter the story of Bowe Bergdahl.

In 2009 he was a disaffected Private First Class pining away in Afghanistan. Originally, reports of the soldier’s disposition implied desertion, not capture:

Two U.S. officials told The Associated Press Bergdahl had “just walked off” his base with three Afghans after his shift. ~ Timeline of Bowe Bergdahl’s Ordeal, Twin Falls Times-News

Noted news analyst and former Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters gave concern over Bergdahl’s quick collaboration with the Taliban:

http://youtu.be/i35H9TpDK7s

Other sources claimed to have inside information that Bergdahl was “an e[m]barrassment to everyone who has worn the uniform. He made it to two towns and was asking for water when the locals turned him over to the Taliban.”

Clearly, Bowe Bergdahl is not Audie Murphy.

…in the weeks before his capture, Bergdahl had made murky statements that suggested he was gravitating away from the soldiers in his unit and toward ­desertion, a member of his platoon told Rolling Stone.

“He spent more time with the Afghans than he did with his platoon,” former Spc. Jason Fry told the magazine in 2012.

As a teen, the home-schooled son of Calvinists took up ballet — recruited to be a “lifter” by “a beautiful local girl,” Rolling Stone reported — “the guy who holds the girl aloft in a ballet sequence.” The strategy worked — Bergdahl, who also began dabbling in Budd­hism and tarot card reading — soon moved in with the woman. ~ The Bizarre Tale of America’s Last Known POW, Michael Gartland, New York Post

But amidst the euphoria of the media over this diplomatic coup, Bergdahl’s father had the impropriety to “tweet” something indiscrete:

He also had this to say about “democracy”:

He was quick to delete the sentiments but that darn “screen capture” is damned inconvenient.

By appearance, Bob Bergdahl has come a long way from “Calvanism”.

Like everything else he’s done, the puppet insurgent president sauntered out to the cameras and crowed about the wonderful accomplishment he’s delivered America.

However, when he gave the microphone over to Bob Bergdahl and his lovely wife, the two did not strike a picture of American Gothic. What was Bergdahl saying?

Immediately, good people with some language skill wondered what was going on.

Is @BobBergdahl, father of Sgt. #BoweBergdahl a Muslim? He opened his talk in Islamic greeting http://t.co/W4vG3VoHWZ pic.twitter.com/cGzoMauihT

— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) June 1, 2014

I don’t know about you, but POW’s I’m familiar with didn’t “forget” their native tongue and quickly learn the language of their captors.

Another inside source had this to say about good ole’ Bowe when he first got to Afghanistan:

In return for the boy Taliban, jihadists got quite a brood of vipers. The UK Telegraph called them the five pillars of old Taliban regime, including Khairullah Khairkhwa who knew Osama bin Laden personally. Conveniently, he was also a chief opium smuggler:

…he was “directly associated” with both Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar, the “supreme commander” of the Taliban. Khairkhwa was also “one of the major opium drug lords in western Afghanistan”. ~ Five Pillars Of Old Taliban Regime, Telegraph

It had been known for years that, should they be released, they would immediately start working new plots to kill Americans.

All five terror suspects the Obama administration exchanged for the release of Sgt. Bowe Berghdahl on Saturday were deemed in a 2008 Pentagon dossier to be “high risk” for launching attacks on American interests if released. ~ Terror Suspects Freed by Obama Admin. Were Labeled “High Risk” In 2008, Kellan Howell, Washington Times

Apparently, this was such a great deal, Barack the Most Merciful had to bend a few rules to make it happen and whisked away his prizes before telling Congress what was going on.

Top Republicans on the Senate and House armed services committees went so far as to accuse President Obama of having broken the law, which requires the administration to notify Congress before any transfers from Guantanamo are carried out.

“Trading five senior Taliban leaders from detention in Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl’s release may have consequences for the rest of our forces and all Americans. Our terrorist adversaries now have a strong incentive to capture Americans. That incentive will put our forces in Afghanistan and around the world at even greater risk,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.) and the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, James M. Inhofe (Okla.), said in a joint statement.

Lawmakers were not notified of the Guantanamo detainees’ transfer until after it occurred. ~ Bergdahl Release Arrangement Could Threaten The Safety Of Americans, Republicans Say, Karen Tumulty, Washington Post

Feeling the heat, messiah’s Secretary of War rushed to the podium to proclaim that boy Taliban’s ”life was in danger”—they had to move fast!

Personally, I don’t know what all the fuss is about. They’ve done far worse than this with the smiling approval of the “Opposition Party”.

UPDATE: Sunday, 01 June, 2014; 02:20 PM, EST

Gotta love the bootlickers in Obama’s Army!

Remember how I said Bergdahl was a Private First Class when he deserted his post? Notice how all of messiah’s propagandists are proudly proclaiming him SERGEANT Bergdahl now.

A U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan in 2009 has received his second promotion while in captivity, U.S. Central Command announced Friday.

With the promotion, Bowe Bergdahl, 25, rises to the rank of sergeant. He was last promoted in June 2010 to the rank of specialist, according to Central Command.

Brig. Gen. Rick Mustion, the adjutant general of the Army, traveled to Bergdahl’s hometown of Hailey, Idaho, on Thursday to deliver the promotion certificate to his parents.

The Army has been giving Bergdahl promotions that would have come to him had his Army career gone as planned. If he returns home safely, the Army will give him all the back pay that he has earned while in captivity. ~ Captured U.S. Soldier Receives Second Promotion In Two Years, CNN

If you’ve ever served time in the military (especially in a real unit) you’d know that no one slides into a promotion unless they rate it. Sometimes their chain of command is asleep at the wheel and on rare occasions, the skids get greased for someone … “special”.

Well if only he had stayed with his friends a few more years, he might’ve left Afghanistan as a Sergeant Major!

UPDATE: Monday, 02 June, 2014; 01:11 PM, EST

Obama’s “national security advisor” Susan “Benghazi Was About YouTube” Rice: “Bergdahl served with honor and distinction.”

At least one foreign media source is slamming the boy Taliban hard:

Daily Mail: “Bowe Bergdahl deserted and these Americans lost their lives searching for him”: The bitter backlash from soldiers who served with Taliban POW as the SIX men who were killed looking for him are revealed.

* The Facebook group “Bowe Bergdahl is NOT hero!” has 5,400 members
* Men who served in his unit in Afghanistan are now emerging to say they believe Bergdahl deserted before he was captured
* Bergdahl e-mailed his parents saying he “was ashamed to be an American”
* Military seems to acknowledge Bergdahl, 28, could have committed some kind of violation
* However, officials say he likely won’t be punished: “five years is enough”
* Former squad leader said Bergdahl always talked about seeing what was on the other side of the mountains

Innocent Afghans know they will pay when these cut-throats come home.

The release of five Taliban prisoners in exchange for a U.S. soldier has drawn criticism from some Afghans, who say the detainees are dangerous and will rekindle ties with terrorist networks to resume fighting, just as most foreign troops leave. ~ Afghans Say Taliban Prisoners Freed By U.S. Will Rejoin Battle, Jessica Donati and Hamid Shalizi, Reuters

Just one more confirmation, folks: you ‘been had:

Watch Released Deserter Bowe Bergdahl’s Father Praise Allah Before Being Hugged By Barack Hussein Obama

And the Army’s about to promote him again:

…the prisoner exchange to bring home American POW Bowe Bergdahl, in exchange for five terror suspects is coming under fire. Despite complaints from fellow soldiers, a senior defense official tells us that Bergdahl has not been classified as a deserter and is still scheduled to be promoted to staff sergeant. ~ Deal to Free Soldier Facing Criticism, CNN (transcript)

Several times I have been given the honor of re-enlisting a great young soldier and leading them in the Oath of Enlistment. If only we had men of honor and courage who would “declare war” on those who so obviously hate this country.

Case in point: the stalwart guardians of freedom at Newsweek who wrote an article about interrogators at Guantanamo Bay who supposedly defiled a “Qu’ran” and may have flushed one down the toilet. It sparked rioting all throughout the muslim enclaves around the world. The worst seemed to be in Afghanistan where 14 died over 3 days of rioting. It would seem that not enough American blood had been spilled or American money had been spent freeing the good people of Afghanistan from the likes of the Taliban and other nice people. It’s totally understandable that they would immediately spew out such winners as “Death to America” while they ran amuck through the streets.

An even greater winner is Michael Isikoff and Newsweek—those hound-dogs of righteousness hunted down what could be the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the year: while interrogating Muslim thugs and cockroaches at Gitmo, a Qu’ran may have got Deep-Sixed. What an outrage! It runs right up there with cutting off an innocent man’s head because he’s a non-muslim in the wrong place at the wrong time.

—Or with the muslims who are raping, torturing and enslaving Christian children in Sudan. —Or the story of Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang and evangelist Pham Ngoc Thach who have been imprisoned by the government of Viet Nam for the high crime of being Christians. With all of the coverage Newsweek gives to stories like those, it’s only right that they run a little blurb about Taliban-tomes-turned-toilet-paper. Heck, it was only a little blurb, right? What harm could it do?

Although the original report in Newsweek was small, it was re-broadcast by television networks such as al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya… ~ Newsweek Sparks Global Riots With One Paragraph On Koran, Catherine Philp, Times Online

Al-Jazeera. The same nice guys who the cockroaches send beheading videos to—and play them immediately. But Heaven forbid we should put them out of business! That would attack the sacred alter of “free press/free speech”!

For those who do think interrogators went over the top flushing some famous foreign folklore, never fear, Condi is here!—

As Washington scrambled to calm the outrage, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, promised an inquiry and punishment for any proven offenders. ~ Newsweek Sparks Global Riots With One Paragraph On Koran, Catherine Philp, Times Online

Oh, by the way, the little blurb had about as much credentials as Dan Rather at a George Bush birthday party:

So Isikoff relied on a telephone call with an anonymous government official paraphrasing a forthcoming report, confirmed by placing a draft of the Periscope item before another anonymous government official. Isikoff never saw the underlying report or even had it read to him.

UPDATE (Tuesday, May 17, 2005): I’m struck by the stark contrast between Islam and Christianity.

First, it’s obvious that what has and is taking place in response to this “outrage,” goes far deeper than just a non-incident at Guantanamo Bay. Terrorist leaders are undoubtedly using this lie. However, what Newsweek did was certainly the match that lit the powderkeg.

If Christians rioted every time Hollywood (movies & TV), the education establishment, the media and the government blasphemed our Savior and our Scriptures the entire nation would be a smoldering ruins.

And of course, muslims have a STELLAR record when it comes to religious tolerance—

After being nailed to a board by his master and left for dead – the last in a series of torturous acts – a Sudanese Dinka boy escaped from his bondage and lived to tell his horrific story.

…since the 1980s, the Muslim National Islamic Front government has sanctioned the taking of Christians and animists from the south part of the nation to be sold to Muslims as slaves in the north. The two sides have been engaged in a civil war for several years.

“During his enslavement,” Phillips wrote, “he was often beaten, tortured and abused by his Arab master. African slaves, especially Christians, are viewed as lower than animals.

“Joseph was raised Christian. His desire to worship was mocked by his master, who told him every day for 10 years that he had no business worshipping since he was of no more value than a donkey.” ~ Sudan Slave Crucified by Master, WorldNetDaily.com

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JERUSALEM – With Muslims worldwide protesting a now-retracted Newsweek report that claimed U.S. Army interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Qu’ran down the toilet, the father of a rabbi who was murdered while trying to defend a Jewish holy site from Palestinian rioters blasted Muslim leaders yesterday in an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview.

Rabbi Zevulun Lieberman, whose son Hillel died trying to save Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus from Muslim rioters, told WND he is “sickened by this Muslim outcry when Muslims have shown the world they don’t have any respect for religion whatsoever. They lost the right to protest about disrespect for religion and holy objects a long time ago.” ~ Muslim Double Standard on Religious Desecration, WorldNetDaily.com

NOW, take into effect just who is IN Gitmo—murderers. They don’t wear a uniform. They attack in the most cowardly ways possible and have no problem maiming women and children indiscriminately. And yet, muslims around the world consider these animals “kindred” whose quality of life is of the utmost importance. What that says is that ALL muslims agree with the depraved tactics the murders use. When was the last time you heard a muslim outcry over a suicide bombing?? This again proves that ISLAM is the problem.

Finally, like MORONS the United States continues to placate CRIMINALS we are trying to get information from that may save American lives:

More than two years ago, the Pentagon issued detailed rules for handling the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, requiring U.S. personnel to ensure that the holy book is not placed in “offensive areas such as the floor, near the toilet or sink, near the feet, or dirty/wet areas.”

The three-page memorandum, dated Jan. 19, 2003, says that only Muslim chaplains and Muslim interpreters can handle the holy book, and only after putting on clean gloves in full view of detainees.

The detailed rules require U.S. Muslim personnel to use both hands when touching the Koran to signal “respect and reverence,” and specify that the right hand be the primary one used to manipulate any part of the book “due to cultural associations with the left hand.” The Koran should be treated like a “fragile piece of delicate art,” it says. ~ U.S. Long Had Memo on Handling of Koran, Robin Wright, Washington Post Staff Writer

Are the individuals that we have incarcerated “muslims” or MURDERERS?! Who gives a RAT’S ASS whether they’re offended or not?! To quote radio talkshow host Glenn Beck (on the program airing today), “If it would’ve made them talk, I’d give Muhammad himself a whirl.” Again, this proves the point that ISLAM is the problem. Where is the outcry from the muslim community? The silence is deafening.

Now, before anyone does something stupid and blames it on my web site, let me make it clear that I AM NOT ADVOCATING RANDOM VIOLENCE AGAINST MUSLIMS. I am advocating distrust of all muslims (ESPECIALLY those in uniform) and a concerted effort at winning them to Christ.

Oh, by the way. Don’t strain too hard to see this story talked about in the “mainstream” press anymore.

Anybody remember the records set for reporting on “Abu Graib”…???