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Related: About this forum"Guardian Reporter": Bowe Bergdahl's Fellow Soldiers Questioned Afghan War More Than He Did
TRANSCRIPT AT: http://www.democracynow.org
According to a 2012 profile in Rolling Stone magazine by the late reporter Michael Hastings, the newly freed U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl joined the Army in 2008 after he first tried to enlist with the French Foreign Legion, but was rejected. He was deployed to Afghanistan just after President Obama ordered the first troop surge in the Spring of 2009. Bergdahl reportedly told a soldier in his unit, "If this deployment is lame ... I'm just going to walk off into the mountains of Pakistan." And on June 30, 2009, he may have done just that, leaving the base with just a knife and water, along with a digital camera and his diary. Within 24 hours, he was captured. We are joined by Sean Smith, an award-winning photographer and filmmaker for The Guardian who met Bowe Bergdahl while embedded with his unit in Afghanistan. Smith also profiled Bowe's father, Bob Bergdahl, in the video we aired in the previous segment.
This video is an excerpt from the full interview. Watch the full segment on Democracy Now!: http://owl.li/xzGiY
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951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)"Torture is AWESOME! YAAAY! HAHAHA!!!"
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And this asshole who murdered 2 civilians in pakistan while on the CIA's dole.
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^Total roid head
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Lindy England was prosecuted and served about 2 years in prison.
annm4peace
(6,119 posts)I"m having a hard time dealing with the news. So many troops who have served in Iraq and/or Afghanistan have committed Suicide.
that doesn't ever get mentioned by the right wingers.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)I was very frank with my parents about how I felt about the war.
I talked appropriately with my fellow-ranked officers and I know my feelings were far from unique amongst my peers. If I had to guess, I'd say that only about %25-33 of the officers and people I worked with would be people I'd term "believer" in the cause.
If I had to guess, I'd bet that people who were actually going on patrol every day like me were much more cynical and questioning of the war than those who sat comfortably in an air-conditioned office on a FOB.