POW Swap Bullshit

Thanks mainly to the obvious MSM requirement to support each and every act of lying, law-breaking, and/or stupidity on the part of Obama ad-Dajjal, we're now getting stories like this about the Bowe Bergdahl "POW swap":

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/06/04/leave-no-soldier-behind-no-exceptions/

I'd like to point out several areas of foul-smelling bullshit behind such fantasy stories:

(1) Status of POWs

The US has refused to grant full "POW" status IAW the Geneva Conventions for the persons kidnapped and/or captured during the Global War on Terror. This is not the first time something like this has happened (read Other Losses by James Bacque to learn about another example). It appears that the Taliban treated Bergdahl more like a "POW" than we ever treated anyone at Gitmo.

(2) "Leave no man" behind is a lie

We have frequently left men behind, and the government seems to have been fully aware of it. The numbers may be as high as the following:

• World War II - 20,000
• Korean War - 8,000
• Vietnam War - 2,000
• Cold War - 1,000

http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/06/09/the-horrific-history-that-undermines-the-obama-administrations-no-man-left-behind-narrative-according-to-one-author/

(3) "We don't deal with terrorists" is a lie

Have we forgotten the "October Surprise"? Have we forgotten the Iran-Contra scandal? Of course the US deals with terrorists. We finance them, we use them to do our dirty work, and we then either reward or betray them as the government sees fit.

(4) Did we just rescue a deserter?

There now seem to be plenty of people calling Bowe Bergdahl a deserter. The last US soldier executed for desertion, Pvt. Eddie Slovik, not only admitted to the offense, he turned himself in and was never accused of aiding the enemy. Bergdahl, on the other hand, allegedly aided the enemy following his "capture". Why is he not on trial for desertion and for aiding the enemy? He may not be guilty of such charges, but isn't that for a courts martial to decide and not the MSM?

(5) We killed deserters in Vietnam

You may recall the "Operation Tailwind" scandal, in which senior military personnel at first admitted to using nerve gas during an attack on Laos but then retracted their confessions after the scandal went public. What you may have forgotten is that one alleged purpose of the attack was to kill US deserters hiding with the enemy. If you don't believe those charges, look around ... there is at least one memoir of a US special forces operative in print which admits to missions whose purpose was to murder US deserters. Not to capture and bring them back for trial, not to exchange them for other POWs, but to murder them.

(6) Comparison to other high profile soldiers

Bradley (Chelsea) Manning, whose chief crime was to blow the whistle on US war crimes, was accused of aiding the enemy. Shouldn't Bergdahl face similar charges? Pat Tillman eventually was very critical of our "war" in Afghanistan, and somehow he was killed by "friendly fire". Why were the anti-US actions and words of Manning and Tillman persecuted, while the alleged anti-US actions and words of Bergdahl are being tolerated and perhaps even praised?

We need to flush the bullshit out of our heads and out of the overflowing toilets know as the mainstream media and start thinking rationally about what is going on here. Uncle Sam doesn't give a damn about anyone, not even his own troops. And you better not ever forget it.

Stop the lies ... all of them.