Sen. Saxby Chambliss The Draft Dodging Republican Refuses To Believe That Bowe Bergdahl Was Tortured

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On CBS’ Face The Nation Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss refused to believe that Bowe Bergdahl was tortured by the Taliban, and wanted the story verified he would believe it.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) was asked about the reports that Sgt. Bergdahl is saying he was tortured. He answered, “I think there are going to be a lot of things that Bergdahl tells the Army and the medical folks that he is talking to now that are going to be very difficult to validate, but that’s not to say they’re not absolutely true, but we weren’t there. We have nobody who was on the inside, so we don’t know what happened in his life over the last several years, except we do that he was he was captured and he was in the Taliban’s hands for these number of years, so I just suspect that you’re going to have number one rumors coming out about what he me maybe saying, but then other actual statements that he may make that are going to be very difficult to validate, and again, that’s not to say they’re not true.”

Chambliss’s answer should sound familiar because it is the same sort of language that Republicans used for years when they questioned President Obama’s birth certificate. Republicans spent years saying that President Obama probably was born in the United States, but they can’t be sure because they have never seen his original birth certificate. Sen. Chambliss was applying the same rhetoric in this case. Chambliss was suggesting that Bergdahl might be telling the truth about being tortured, but he doesn’t know because there isn’t someone else there to verify the story.

There are physical signs of torture that can be found through medical testing, but Republicans are still trying to discredit Bergdahl so they don’t want to discuss science and facts. It is unprecedented for a POW to have their claims of torture by their captors doubted, but that is exactly what Republicans are doing. The Taliban is infamous for their use of torture. Bergdahl’s claim falls right into line with what is know about Taliban tactics and behavior.

There is no reason to doubt Sgt. Bergdahl, and the source of this doubt lacks credibility. Saxby Chambliss received five student deferments to get out of going to Vietnam. Chambliss also swiftboated a triple amputee Vietnam veteran to win his Senate seat in 2002. He also said that he would have raised holy hell over the prisoner exchange to bring Bergdahl home.

No matter what the circumstances were that led to his capture by the Taliban, Sgt. Bergdahl put on the uniform and served his country. He has more courage than Saxby Chambliss could ever hope to possess. Chambliss is the lowest of the low, who made his Senate career by attacking veterans.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/08/draft-dodging-republican-senator-refuses-bowe-bergdahl-tortured.html

[brer cat]

1. The same lying sob who tarred Max Cleland.

I will be so happy when he is gone.

[Paladin]

9. I'll never forgive him for the Cleland thing. Never, ever. (nt)

[Leith]

15. Neither Will I

Chambliss is scum.

[GoCubsGo]

22. Yep, he's despicabe.

I'm not surprised that he's treating Bergdahl just as abominably.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Max Cleland

?1357347920

[valerief]

28. According to GOPers, he's just Photoshopped. nt

[quinnox]

2. Apparently Chambliss really hates the troops!

[Submariner]

3. Saxby had a boo-boo on his knee from being a football jock

which was his explanation for not serving his country in uniform. The racist coward also had his campaign aid Annie Coulter state that Max Cleland fell on a grenade exiting the chopper because Max was a coward who did not want to go into battle.

Saxbo had better not pass this veteran on the street, or by chance in an airport, because he will get spit in the face and dressed down as the coward he is. I have never been arrested, but it would be worth it confronting Saxby.

[Mz Pip]

4. So lacking in class or compassion.

I don't know what this guys story is. Maybe he deserted, maybe he didn't. Maybe he was tortured, maybe he wasn't. But I will be damned before I come out with some statement that claims my opinions as fact.

Sucksby doesn't know what happened unless he was there. He's never even been on a battlefield. So he's nothing more than another bloviating armchair warrior, puffed up with faux righteous indignation.

[MineralMan]

5. Foghorn Leghorn. "I say, I say..."

Dickhead.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Every single statement by Bergdahl's platoon mates gets believed instantly

and thenceforth treated as established fact. Even the statements of Afghani villagers are treated as credible. But everything out of Bergdahl's mouth will be taken with skepticism, unless, of course, he admits wrongdoing. That, they'll believe. Edit to add: Does Yaketty Sax really believe the Taliban treated Bergdahl well? REALLY?

[alsame]

7. If the GOP

is okay with this,

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they should not be allowed to comment on what is or isn't torture.

[sarisataka]

8. That's the problem

When you torture people you have to defend the other guy's actions to avoid condemning your own actions.

So now Republicans are having to defend the Taliban ; oh the irony

[Mr.Bill]

10. It is a known fact that Saxby Chambliss

has never raped a girl under the age of six.

[QuestForSense]

12. Sorry, that's a little hard to validate.

[Enthusiast]

11. Another Republican chickenhawk.

Damn, they have a lot of them.

[gratuitous]

13. For people who don't know anything

Republicans sure do an awful lot of talking. Awful talking, at that.

[blkmusclmachine]

14. Remember when the Republican audience booed that Vet in 2012, and chanted "Let him DIE! Let him DIE!

Let him DIE!"

[liberalmuse]

16. He'll be dead soon.

And so will all the others like him. To be honest, I won't care. Though we do need to worry about what people of his ilk may have spawned and indoctrinated. The good news is, even kids born of conservative, bigoted asshats tend to find their way in the real world and reject most of the lies they were taught.

[sulphurdunn]

17. Is it possible to be any lower than Saxby?

He is heir to the fine aristocratic tradition that insisted people are property and started a war to prove it. Since the little neo-Confederate bastard can't get away with that anymore, he insists that property is people.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. RULE #1 with Conservatives: NEVER admit you are WRONG.

[Glorfindel]

19. Georgia, my native state, covered itself with shame when it elected this POS

He is the lowest of the low, and considering the crop of Repukes, that's saying something. May he reap the rewards he so richly deserves.

[TNNurse]

20. My mother who lived in GA all her life

Died never forgiving what he did to Max Cleland, I carry on that feeling for her. What an awful human being,

[democrank]

21. Saxby Chambliss, War Expert.

I remember what he did to Max Cleland so nothing surprises me about this entitled chickenhawk.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

24. The GOP believes that the Taleban are upstanding folks

...who would never torture anyone

[NastyRiffraff]

25. Amazing that this piece of shit keeps getting elected

I too will never forget, or forgive what he did to Max Cleland. It takes a special kind of evil to do what he did.

[VanillaRhapsody]

26. What does he think they were doing playing TiddledeeWinks?

We have been torturing their guys.....what does he expect. Has he had several concussions?

[valerief]

27. I know. Bergdahl can SHOW Chambliss what was done to him. Hope it includes

waterboarding.

[Cha]

29. Of course he does. That's what craven sociopathic assholes do.