Anger Explodes Over Treatment Of Bergdahl’s Release

Cody Full (L) and Gerald Sutton (R) spent Monday on a whirlwind media tour pressing journalists to think twice before they hail Bowe Bergdahl as a hero

Anger Explodes Over Treatment Of Bergdahl’s Release As Veterans, Troops Call Him A Deserter -- McClatchy News

WASHINGTON — For all the yellow ribbons strewn across his hometown in Idaho and the gratitude expressed by his parents in an emotional visit to the White House on Saturday, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will receive a hero’s welcome when he returns to the United States after nearly five years in Taliban captivity.

From military forums across the country, a groundswell of anger is rising over the Obama administration’s silence on perhaps the most controversial question surrounding the deal that freed Bergdahl in exchange for five senior Taliban members: Was he a deserter?

So far, the U.S. government has shied away from the long-nagging question, which raged anew Monday with growing clamor on the Internet about the circumstances of Bergdahl’s disappearance from his unit’s small forward position in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009.

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My Comment: So much for Pentagon gag orders .... Bergdahl’s former colleagues in his platoon are clearly not happy with him. I expect more details to come out in the next day or two .... and I also expect to see the White House rush to put a clamp on it. But the damage has already been done.