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 cincydooley wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Yeah, the guy is obviously and idiot, but insinuating that he was in league with the terrorists is a stretch, not to mention something you shouldn't do.

Um. Why? The Taliban and ISIS have made it very clear they have no problem killing Americans. They kept him alive despite (a now shattered) stance that we don't negotiate with terrorists.

He should spend the rest of his life in prison, at best.

Because it's wrong, that's why. You have no evidence, and your reasoning is flimsy and best. And the "don't negotiate with terrorists" thing was proved false long ago.

What makes the assumption wrong? He was a POS deserter kept alive by terrorists that like killing Americans. I'm not uncomfortable about any judgement made about him. You know what is wrong? Deserting and costing a fellow serviceman his life because your sorry ass deserted like a cowardly gak.

The search was a pretty big operation and made it easy for the Taliban to enact ambushes and use IEDs since they knew patrols were out looking. PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Murphrey, 2LT Darryn Andrews, were all KIA while searching for Bergdahl.