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We Don’t Leave Our Men or Women in Uniform Behind

We Don’t Leave Our Men or Women in Uniform Behind


  • Total voters
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aperently there was a legal problem



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09gitmo.html?_r=0

besides i thought the point of capturing these terrorist criminals was to punish them?

Good find. I've read that before, and this was based on the UCMJ and not civilian law, which is still a problem between Holder and the Congress as to what laws these guys fall under.

Of course we want to punish them, so to speak. Yet, we want to get as much info from them as we can. Sometimes it takes a long period of time before we even know what questions to ask, to get the info we need.
 
Traitors referring to FOX personnel criticizing the father of Bergdahl ?

Where do you get your news from its all over the news how bowe deserted his unit and joined the taliban.
 
then why is KSM STILL ALIVE???

Because we may still need info from him. On the basic level of wanting retribution, I would love to be the guy that pulled the handle on the trap door on the gallows for this guy. However, as a realist, I understand that a number of things still need to be done, not the lest of which is a trial and conviction, after we get ever bit of info we can get from him.
 
If true, has nothing to do with leaving our men and women in uniform behind.
Where do you get your news from its all over the news how bowe deserted his unit and joined the taliban.
McCain would be pushing impeachment if Obama had not retrieved Bergdahl.
At least one splinter group of the GOP will continue to call for the "I" word no matter what, their only playbook .
 
Over 25 % of voters in this poll disagree or other that we don't leave our men or women behind.
My how things have changed with the Patriotic Party since last decade .
 
If true, has nothing to do with leaving our men and women in uniform behind.

McCain would be pushing impeachment if Obama had not retrieved Bergdahl.
At least one splinter group of the GOP will continue to call for the "I" word no matter what, their only playbook .

He has been a member of the taliban for over 5 years now, I never heard a word of impeach over this issue from anyone during those 5 years.
 
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Over 25 % of voters in this poll disagree or other that we don't leave our men or women behind.
My how things have changed with the Patriotic Party since last decade .


Typically we dont cave to terrorist when we need to rescue a POW...which Bergdahl wasn't.

Anyone who believes Obama had no other option is fooling themselves.

We sent in a Seal team to kill Bin Laden and his body guards and lost no personal.
 
Well i am going to go there and lay it on the line.

i guess we only leave them if they are in BENGHAZI!
Since you're going to go there over Benghazi about leaving those four behind:

Are you still dancing on the graves of the Benghazi dead?
As well as those elderly Veterans who died awaiting medical help.
As well as dancing on the graves of those soldiers supposedly KIA looking for Bergdahl.
Remember, "dancing on graves" is a rightist-wing term used by dishonest gun extremists about domestic dead and gun haters .
 
Typically we dont cave to terrorist when we need to rescue a POW...
Except when Reagan did it.
which Bergdahl wasn't.
Since he is guilty until proven innocent.
Even Krauthammer and General McChrystal don't believe this.
The fissures are growing in your GOP formation.
 
He has been a member of the taliban for over 5 years now,
Guilty until proven innocent.
GOP posters are desperate as they see another line of negative attack fizzile.
I never heard a word of impeach over this issue from anyone during those 5 years.
You have selective hearing and memory .
 
Over 25 % of voters in this poll disagree or other that we don't leave our men or women behind.
My how things have changed with the Patriotic Party since last decade .


This poll is dishonest, forcing someone to have a side in something that is not even remotely true.

as i have posted in here, we leave them in benghazi, and it is well known that this guy is a deserter.
 
Guilty until proven innocent.
GOP posters are desperate as they see another line of negative attack fizzile.

You have selective hearing and memory .


Fine post the articles of them calling for him to be impeached over this POW before his release.
 
Those we left behind in Asia wanted to stay.:peace

They voluntarily climbed into bamboo cages to be held at gunpoint by the Viet Cong?
 
They voluntarily climbed into bamboo cages to be held at gunpoint by the Viet Cong?

Whatever their circumstances, there were some who decided to stay. That is why US statements always referred to US personnel held against their will.:peace
 
From the evidence i have seen he is a deserter, they have emails and hell he even left a note explaining his position.

I mean how much more evidence do you need?

Obama got him back by giving up 5 major terrorists (what a deal), and so you must worship Bergdahl.
 
It really depends on the circumstances...UNtil Obama came in office we did not negotiate with hostages...This clown who does not know what he has done has set a terrible precedent.
 
It really depends on the circumstances...UNtil Obama came in office we did not negotiate with hostages...This clown who does not know what he has done has set a terrible precedent.

I assume you mean "we did not negotiate with terrorists" (I don't see how negotiating with hostages would do anything), and, unsurprisingly, you're wrong. By today's standards, the Viet Cong were a terrorist organization, and we negotiated numerous prisoner releases and exchanges with them. Just off the top of my head.
 
I assume you mean "we did not negotiate with terrorists" (I don't see how negotiating with hostages would do anything), and, unsurprisingly, you're wrong. By today's standards, the Viet Cong were a terrorist organization, and we negotiated numerous prisoner releases and exchanges with them. Just off the top of my head.

Actually, the VC were insurgents, not terrorists. The distinction has to do with target selection and geographic scope.:peace
 
The policy about no man left behind is actually No honorable man left behind........huge difference.
 
I assume you mean "we did not negotiate with terrorists" (I don't see how negotiating with hostages would do anything), and, unsurprisingly, you're wrong. By today's standards, the Viet Cong were a terrorist organization, and we negotiated numerous prisoner releases and exchanges with them. Just off the top of my head.

We did those negotiations after the Vietnam conflict was over...Huge difference.
 
I'm sorry but that's incorrect. He must be tried and convicted of desertion. Same as you must be tried and convicted of any crime in the civilian judicial system. Or would you be okay with being called a murderer just because some of your cohorts said you were on TV?

He deserves a firing squad if and when he's convicted and sentenced to one. Not one second before.

But you see, I'm not on the military jury that will hear his case. I'm just running off at the mouth exactly like you. It's ONLY MY OPINION that he is a deserter. Backed up by his one time compatriots in Afghanistan who ALL have verified the fact. And the fact that he cost the lives of six of his fellow soldiers just is too GD overpowering to forgive. Tie his ass to a stake, throw a blindfold over his head and shoot the SoB.
 
I assume you mean "we did not negotiate with terrorists" (I don't see how negotiating with hostages would do anything), and, unsurprisingly, you're wrong. By today's standards, the Viet Cong were a terrorist organization, and we negotiated numerous prisoner releases and exchanges with them. Just off the top of my head.

What part of the Viet Cong aka PLF (Peoples Liberation Front) aka PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) were terrorist ?

The VC organization is broken down into three different organizations.

VC Main Force. These were well armed and trained soldiers and even had their own uniforms.

VC Regional Forces. Well armed and wore uniforms and collected taxes from the South Vietnamese farmers.

VC guerrilla forces. These were your black pajama clad farmers who were in the rice business during the day and attacking American bases, setting up booby traps, planting land mines at night.
Not as well armed as the main force or regional VC forces and were just in the hit and run business.

Then you had the PAVN (Peoples Army of Vietnam) better known as the NVA.
These soldiers were well trained and well armed by the Soviet Union from AK-47's, light, medium and heavy machine guns, mortars, rockets and 122 MM guns along with Soviet manufactured tanks. They were organized into divisions with infantry regiments, artillery, engineers, and they had their own REMF's supporting the soldier with the AK-47.
 
But you see, I'm not on the military jury that will hear his case. I'm just running off at the mouth exactly like you. It's ONLY MY OPINION that he is a deserter. Backed up by his one time compatriots in Afghanistan who ALL have verified the fact. And the fact that he cost the lives of six of his fellow soldiers just is too GD overpowering to forgive. Tie his ass to a stake, throw a blindfold over his head and shoot the SoB.

Yeah, but any opinion is useless if not supported in fact. And the fact is, he hasn't been convicted of any such thing yet.
 
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