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hexola

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23. In their rush to politicize - they may have impugned command?

Reply to freshwest (Reply #22)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:46 PM

Jun 2014

That's what I took from this.

"Really - we sent 6 guys to their doom looking for this dude?"

No Way...

I'm sure six guys were killed in the weeks following Bergdahl's disappearance/capture...but I doubt there was much of an attempt to find him beyond the first few hours of his disappearance.

Patrols went on as usual. "Keep an eye out for..."

Guys were killed

BAS

Business As Usual...

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Pentagon to review claims US soldiers killed during search for Bergdahl [View all] hexola Jun 2014 OP

Wow controversy Fox News? Also - this sounds like a quick rewrite of the NYT story underpants Jun 2014 #1

Side note for your salesman line... titaniumsalute Jun 2014 #28

Ha! underpants Jun 2014 #29

This may be a true controversy randr Jun 2014 #2

How many soldiers died looking for Bush's WMD? GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #3

*this* can't be said enough. nt brer cat Jun 2014 #4

How many Americans died when Bush ignored the 9/6/01 PDB? KansDem Jun 2014 #6

i'm sure they have already looked at that Enrique Jun 2014 #5

Seems like it should be easy to find out if this is true or not for the Pentagon. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #7

The Pentagon will spin any story to put soldier's actions in a positive light. OnlinePoker Jun 2014 #11

Whether that is true or not they should have been able tp answer the question by now. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #12

The problem, I think, is that individual commanders may not have had a handle TwilightGardener Jun 2014 #14

Seems like after 5 years they should know and if they don't then God help us. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #15

The commanders on the ground might have changed official stories TwilightGardener Jun 2014 #16

this whole thing is weird. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #17

NYT says Pentagon has done at least one review already bigtree Jun 2014 #8

They were killed due to Pentagon incompetence. broiles Jun 2014 #18

Yeah, I think this is bogus. joshcryer Jun 2014 #24

Obama can't do anything correctly because Stainless Jun 2014 #9

IF he deserted, he must be heaven05 Jun 2014 #10

Who collected these names and photos and put them forth, and managed TwilightGardener Jun 2014 #13

I believe you. It's their MO. freshwest Jun 2014 #22

In their rush to politicize - they may have impugned command? hexola Jun 2014 #23

We should not be linking to Fox News on DU. SunSeeker Jun 2014 #19

Wrong - I linked to FOX to show even THEY were skeptical... hexola Jun 2014 #20

That story does not suggest Fox is skeptical the soldiers were killed. SunSeeker Jun 2014 #25

Were they looking for him as a POW or enemy combatant? hexola Jun 2014 #21

No. It depends on whether you hate Obama. SunSeeker Jun 2014 #26

wiki leaks has the entire capture (he was in the latrine) and the search. lots of civies were hurt. Sunlei Jun 2014 #27