McChrystal: Don’t ‘Judge’ Bergdahl And The Prisoner Swap Yet (VIDEO)

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Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Wednesday said it was too soon to “judge” Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and the Obama administration’s decision to negotiate for his release from the Taliban.

“I think we’re going to have to wait and talk to Sgt. Bergdahl now and get his side of the story,” McChrystal told Yahoo News about the soldier, who has been characterized as a deserter by some of his platoon members. “One of the great things about America is we should not judge until we know the facts. And after we know the facts, then we should make a mature judgment on how we should handle it.”

The retired general defended efforts to return Bergdahl after he left his post in Afghanistan.

“We did a huge number of operations to try to stop the Taliban from being able to move him across the border into Pakistan,” McChrystal said. “And we made a great effort, and put a lot of people at risk in doing that, but that’s what you should do. That’s what soldiers do for each other.”

“We don’t leave Americans behind. That’s unequivocal,” he said when asked if he would have authorized the prisoner swap. “There will be a lot of discussion on whether the mechanism for getting Sgt. Bergdahl back was right – and I’ll leave it to people to argue that.”

Watch the interview via Yahoo News:

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  1. Eh, the RWNJ’s will call him a librul democrapper and be done with him.

  2. Whatever you say McCrysTALIBAN!

  3. Thank God at least one other Republican besides Lawrence Wilkerson is not completely batshit.

  4. What the attacks by Repugs on Bergdahl prove is that the decision to trade for him was at Obama’s discretion. Not only that, it also proves that to Repugs all Americans including its soldiers are just pawns in its attempt to bring down a duly elected president.

    I mean if Obama did not have the discretion to act than it does not matter what type of soldier was Bergdahl. If, however, the argument is, Bergdahl was not worth the price we paid, that is entirely within the discretion of the president. In fact making these decisions is why Obama was elected.

    I mean if Obama had not made the deal the GOP would be screaming “when will Obama let a hero’s dad shave.”

    This is really a new low for Repugs. Stopping Obama from helping the economy recover from George Bush is one thing. Handing over world hegemony to the Chinese’s to stop Obamacare is something else. But attacking a POW who volunteered do what Repugs refused, fight in Bush’s wars, is a new low.

  5. Another America hating traitor co-opted by the forces of Kenyan evil! A careful countertop inspection and a full-on assault by the 101st “Fightin’ Keyboarders” Chairborne is in order!

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