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Why, exactly, did Bowe Bergdahl walk off?
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Why, exactly, did Bowe Bergdahl walk off?
Captured by the taliban and held in captivity for five years. also testifying at that hearing on friday was terrence russell, one of the military's top debriefers of prisoners. terrence russell said that sergeant bergdahl's treatment by the taliban was the worst that he had heard of any american prisoner of war since vietnam. mr. russell said, the level of wildly inaccurate speculation about sergeant bergdahl is outrageous. he did the best job he could do and i respect him for it. general dahl said the six soldiers killed search for bowe bergdahl is the stuff of mythology. general dahl said no...
He said that after interviewing bowe bergdahl and 56 other witnesses he believes that sergeant bergdahl has been truthful. general dahl said, he absolutely believed the things he was perceiving were true, the general said that sergeant bergdahl's beliefs were, quote, unwarranted but genuinely held. the story general dahl told is that sergeant bergdahl left his base with a plan to walk 18 miles to another base forward operating base. bowe bergdahl wanted to complain to the commanding general at the other base about problems back at his base, problems that bowe bergdahl thought could endanger hi...
Other base about problems back at his base, problems that bowe bergdahl thought could endanger his platoon. sergeant bergdahl believed he would be able to get a meeting with the commanding general if he arrived at the base in such a shocking way. general dahl says that bowe bergdahl probably would have been allowed to speak to general if he had made it to the forward operating base. instead, sergeant bergdahl was captured by the taliban and held in captivity for five years. also testifying at that hearing on friday was terrence russell, one of the military's top debriefers of prisoners. terren...
I think it would be inappropriate. now we know that donald trump is not going to rewrite his stories about bowe bergdahl to include everything that major general kenneth dahl has now said about the case. donald trump will probably choose one of two options. one, simply to stop talking about bowe bergdahl or, two, just keep saying the same things about bowe bergdahl, just keep making stuff up. >> when we get a traitor named bergdahl, a dirty, rotten traitor, who, by the way, when he deserted, six young beautiful people were killed trying to find him. >> it's absolutely true. >> the general inve...