Palin Bashes Bergdahl For His ‘Horrid Anti-American Beliefs’

Former Alaska gov. Sarah Palin chats with guest at Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto's private fundraiser in East Naples with in East Naples on Thursday April 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Naples Daily News, Scott McIntyre)
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Don’t expect Sarah Palin to attend any homecoming celebrations for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

The former GOP vice presidential nominee and half-term Alaska governor wrote on her Facebook page Monday that President Obama never should have praised the soldier who was released this weekend after five years of captivity in Afghanistan.

“No, Mr. President, a soldier expressing horrid anti-American beliefs – even boldly putting them in writing and unabashedly firing off his messages (http://nypost.com/2014/05/31/the-bizarre-tale-of-americas-last-known-pow/) while in uniform, just three days before he left his unit on foot – is not ‘honorable service.’ Unless that is your standard,” Palin wrote.

She was referring to an email sent by Bergdahl to his parents, which were published in a 2012 Rolling Stone article by the late journalist Michael Hastings. In the message, sent days before he went missing, Bergdahl wrote that he was “ashamed to be an american (sic)” and that “the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools.”

Bergdahl’s disappearance in 2009 and the subsequent manhunt sparked resentment among his fellow soldiers, many of whom consider him a deserter.

Along with her critical assessment of Bergdahl, Palin wrote that Obama “blew it again…by negotiating away any leverage against the bad guys as these bad guys – Osama Bin Laden’s partners in evil crime – joyfully celebrate their ‘win’ in the deal you sealed.”

Read the whole post:

Commander-in-Chief’s Definition of “Honorable Service” Includes Anti-American Actions While in Uniform; He Just Destroyed Troop Morale

The Obama administration tells America this soldier served “with honor and distinction.” (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/susan-rice-bergdahl-served-honor-and-distinction_794066.html)

No, Mr. President, a soldier expressing horrid anti-American beliefs – even boldly putting them in writing and unabashedly firing off his messages (http://nypost.com/2014/05/31/the-bizarre-tale-of-americas-last-known-pow/) while in uniform, just three days before he left his unit on foot – is not “honorable service.” Unless that is your standard.

Please use your White House Rose Garden to praise the truly honorable service of our good U.S. troops who were killed in their search for Sgt. Bergdahl (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/we-lost-soldiers-in-the-hunt-for-bergdahl-a-guy-who-walked-off-in-the-dead-of-night.html). Praise the soldiers who fought with everything they had to defeat Islamic terrorists, those whom you just freed from prison. Our men gave all. Our surviving combat vets will forever live with the effects of the missions they willingly engaged in to protect you, our country, and certainly their brothers and sisters who are proud to wear the uniform.

You blew it again, Barack Obama, by negotiating away any leverage against the bad guys as these bad guys – Osama Bin Laden’s partners in evil crime – joyfully celebrate their “win” in the deal you sealed.

– Sarah Palin

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  1. Avatar for korvu korvu says:

    I guess she doesn’t agree with Ted Cruz who suggested a military operation to extract Bergdahl.

  2. Go away Sarah, I’m sure there’s a republican fool out there you haven’t grifted yet.

  3. Have you served Sarah? Of course not. So, just go away and play Mama Bear.

  4. Avatar for zoran zoran says:

    So Palin had nothing to say when a kid she used to drive to hockey practice in Alaska (Jeremy Morlock) murdered innocent Afghanis, and is serving time in prison for it. I never heard a word about it from the mouth that roared–nor did the press ask her about it.

    When Palin opens her yammering maw all I hear is Charlie Brown’s teacher.

  5. I’d really like to see how Sarah the Quitter would handle five years as a prisoner of the Taliban. What an awful, awful person.

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