Sand-Kicker in Chief
By Russ Vaughn in American Thinker
A retired Army lieutenant colonel,
Anthony Shaffer, whom FOX News uses frequently to determine goings-on in the
Pentagon, revealed last night that the Army is not the culprit in the cover-up
of the Bowe Bergdahl investigation. According to the colonel’s internal
Pentagon sources, the Army has already charged Bergdahl with desertion but has
been stymied in pursuing the normal court-martial processes due to oppressive
command influence from the White House. According to Shaffer’s sources,
the immediate culprit is Ben Rhodes, current deputy national security adviser
for strategic communication for Barack Obama.
White House fear is totally understandable.
If you had traded five key terrorist leaders for one American G.I.
and your hero turned out to be a deserter who willingly left his post and his
unit and went over to the enemy in time of war, wouldn’t you be embarrassed?
Worse, had you quite publicly invited said deserter’s parents to stroll
congenially and intimately through the White House Rose Garden with you, and then
had that event broadcast round the world, wouldn’t you be
embarrassed?
However, their fear is in no way
defensible. If the president is embarrassed by his reckless diplomacy and
his foolishness in courting the family of a possible traitor, so be it.
Were I the president, heads would be rolling for allowing such a public
relations disaster to occur and for making me look like such a naïve fool.
Of course, the possibility exists that the president was fully aware of a
completed Army investigation that had concluded that Bergdahl was a deserter
and that this was merely another one of Obama’s long-middle-finger gestures to
the nation he purportedly leads.
But in no way does the extant
situation justify a national cover-up of the truth surrounding this soldier’s
treachery. The Army has determined that sufficient evidence exists to
court-martial PFC Bergdahl (a PFC when he deserted but promoted in absentia to
SGT) for desertion in the face of the enemy. Also, he most probably bears
some legal culpability for the several deaths of those soldiers who went
searching for him in the belief he might have been kidnapped by the enemy.
Most importantly, the military and veterans’ communities are entitled to
a legal resolution of this situation, as it bears directly on the preservation
of military rules of duty, honor, and country.
This situation stinks worse than my
cat’s litter box, and it is unseemly for our commander-in-chief to be in this
particular cat box doing his very best to cover up the political pile of poop
that Bowe Bergdahl has become. Obama can delegate Ben Rhodes to kick all
the presidential sand he wants, but no amount of White House effort is ever
going to cover the huge political stink that the Bowe Bergdahl affair is about
to become.
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