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TheDebbieDee

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2. I THINK the elephant in the room with regard to the Bergdahl incident is...
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 11:24 AM
Oct 2017

Bergdahl was a soldier in a combat zone who was showing signs of having mental hygiene issues or needing some help from the mental health segment of military health care. And instead of sending him to get the help he needed, his chain-of-command decided instead to keep him in his unit and "monitor" him... Subsequently, he wandered off in search of something that only he knows about and was captured by the enemy. I'm SURE he was tortured and emotionally and physically abused in some way every day that he was a POW and he has spent the last 3 or 4 years since his release dealing with his trauma...

I think this court martial was ginned up by Candidate Trump and once Trump was INSTALLED as President, the military felt they had to follow through with this court martial...

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