Prisoner Swap

[townpete]

All good points. Although the "theater prop" comment is a little over the top, I will take that with the political seasoning being sprinkled around so generously in this, well, political season. Merry Christmas btw ;-)
I would argue that bringing our man back is worth it. Was he worth trading enemy POW'S? If he was my son, yes.
That is an age old argument that we will not settle here.
I have nothing to add over the straw man U2 thing.

And if your son was killed by the release of said prisoners? Who returned back to the battlefield to kill American soldiers?

http://time.com/3689193/ex-gitmo-detainee-trying-to-return-to-battle/

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

Crawl back under your bridge troll. When you earn some respect, come out. Until then, I will let those that have, answer for themselves.

 

[townpete]

Crawl back under your bridge troll. When you earn some respect, come out. Until then, I will let those that have, answer for themselves.

Yep, that's what I thought.

Easy to say if he was your son who was the traitor, not so much if he was killed as part of a deal to release said traitor.

 

[southwind]

So its ok to leave an American soldier be a prisoner of the Taliban?
 

So it's OK to leave 4 American citizens behind while giving Iran the keys to nuclear weapons?

 

[southwind]

Glenn, I already answered the red herring question "what if it was your son?" over a year ago: http://www.airlineforums.com/topic/57219-prisoner-swap/page-3#entry1091580I don't recall ever arguing that Bergdahl should have been left to rot. I don't think he was worth five terrorists, though.What I've questioned in the past is:1) the legality of doing the transfer without going thru Congress (http://www.airlineforums.com/topic/57219-prisoner-swap/page-5#entry1091691)2) the Obama Administration using him as a theater prop, especially when there was doubt over whether he was a deserter or captured in the line of dutyUW's attempts to try and smear Gary Powers with the same brush as Bergdahl are lame. They may have both been POW's, but that's pretty much where the similarity ends.Oh, and Powers was legally traded via Congress. Not executive action.

When was the last time BaRack went through congress, for anything, unless he was broke and was asking for Mo' money?

 

[Ms Tree]

 

So it's OK to leave 4 American citizens behind while giving Iran the keys to nuclear weapons?

 

You do not trade arms/nuclear treaties for hostages. Reagan did that and ended up getting more hostages taken by Iran. Hostage/prisoner negotiations are kept separate for a reason.

 

[Ifly2]

House armed services committee has been investigating the swap. He violated the law, no doubt.
 
Good thing it wasn't Bush or we'd be impeaching.

You wanna' cite said broken law?

 

[townpete]

You wanna' cite said broken law?

Psst. You aren't going to find it in your state controlled media.

lol