Never ever leave a Soldier behind.

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29. Thanks for this... When Bellinger says:

“He was a young 20-year-old. Young 20-year-olds make stupid decisions. I don’t think we’ll say if you make a stupid decision we’ll leave you in the hands of the Taliban.”

Yet that is exactly what the GOP wanted.

They don't want any light shone on their filthy little war, for which they should all be hanged.

Remember Jihad Johnny?

The Bush administration was extraordinarily lenient to a guy who joined up with the Taliban and supported them. Bellinger must remember.

In former wars, J.J. would have been charged with treason. Yet his fellow soldiers rescued him. He got time in a prison near his family to make it easier with scarcely a squeak from the chickenhawk brigade. Bergdahl tried to escape from the Taliban up until the very end.

And as the article states:

Though Cheney told Fox News on Monday that he would not have agreed to the deal, Bellinger stressed that the Bush administration “returned something like 500 detainees from Guantanamo.”

So much for making it sound as if something wrong was done here as that dog won't hunt.

Statistics from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence show that only 6 percent (5 in total) of Guantanamo detainees released during the Obama administration have potentially engaged in militant activities. That compares with a rate of nearly 30 percent under the Bush administration.

Cheney. as usual, remains his malignant, venomous self.

The GOP going this route proves, once again, that to them, the only good soldier is a dead one.

Start an unpopular war, treat the enlisted men badly while private contractors abuse them, civilians and the reputation of the USA, and refuse to pay for it with taxes to make the harm seven-fold. Put your money abroad in other currencies like Darth did, and cheer on the total collapse of the American economy with bankruptcy.

And then the GOP decided to keep soldiers on so many tours under bad conditions they committed suicide, then denied survivors care stateside.

As they rewarded the looters and their GOP cronies, they starved the military families at home. In too many cases they'd offered bonuses to those who joined to pay off their debts and help their families, but when they got harmed or disabled, unable to get work, the GOP demanded the bonus money be paid back and sent debt collectors after them and ruined their chance of jobs, housing and all the rest.

The GOP are not now, and never have been pro-life, they are the party of death.

They sent a million people into a clusterfuck while their media played the music for their evil circus and they stole the store.

They are absolutely beneath contempt in every single way, from the beginning to the end of their profitable adventure. To hell with each and every one of them.