US soldier freed from captivity in Afghanistan

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

**Fingers crossed**

That would be awesome my list would be to one

[GandD 5,966]

That would be awesome my list would be to one

AND MBD apologized to someone the the other day for being insulting. And you two have some sort of weird mutual desire to be able to continue discourse. Life is good.

Any day Lost and Marvin are going to have a bonding moment and my head is going to fall off.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

AND MBD apologized to someone the the other day for being insulting. And you two have some sort of weird mutual desire to be able to continue discourse. Life is good.

Any day Lost and Marvin are going to have a bonding moment and my head is going to fall off.

My letter responses may be back, but toned down a bit

[GandD 5,966]

My letter responses may be back, but toned down a bit

You need to revamp them into compliments

[UncleBeer 244]

Now Obama is having news conferences on the front lawn of the white house with the guys Arabic speaking father

Let me spell it out for you:

[Jacque67 7,328]

A great moment.

Hope nobody is going to twist this into a racist thread!

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

A great moment.

Hope nobody is going to twist this into a racist thread!

You just did. As usual.

Let me spell it out for you:

Pretty much says it all. I wonder when Michelle will start sporting her 50k burqa?

Edited June 3, 2014 by Pinocchio Liberal

[UncleBeer 244]

A good piece in the Washington Post on what happens when Taliban leaders are released:

If anyone doubts that the five senior Taliban leaders President Obama released this weekend will return to the fight and kill more Americans, they need only look at what happened when the George W. Bush administration released a Taliban leader named Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir (a.k.a. Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul) in 2007.

Unlike the terrorists Obama just set free, Zakir was assessed by our military as only “medium risk” of returning to the fight. At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zakir pretended to be a low-ranking conscript and told officials he simply wanted to “go back home and join my family” and promised “I [have] never been America’s enemy and I never intend to be.”

But when he returned to Afghanistan, he quickly became one of America’s fiercest enemies, directly responsible for the deaths of U.S., coalition and Afghan forces. In 2009, Zakir was appointed as the Taliban’s “surge commander” in charge of countering Obama’s new strategy to deny the Taliban safe haven in southern Afghanistan. According to the Times of London, Zakir instituted a campaign of “increasingly sophisticated [roadside] explosives attacks”that killed British and U.S. forces as well as many Afghan civilians. He waged relentless war on the United States and presided over unspeakable atrocities before stepping down from military command in April. To this day, he remains a top member of the Taliban leadership council.

The five Taliban leaders Obama released will now take up where Zakir left off. According to our own military, they are all “high risk” to return to the fight. How dangerous are these men? Here is what the U.S. military says about them, according to their leaked assessments from Guantanamo Bay.

The piece goes on to outline the 'impressive resumes' of the five released jihadists. It continues:

Amazingly, Obama not only released these brutal terrorists, he actually held a ceremony in the Rose Garden to personally announce it. He actually considers it an achievement.

Maybe "amazing", but no longer surprising how low this preznit is willing to stoop.

[UncleBeer 244]

And since the preznit has gone to such extraordinary lengths to return these terrorists to the fight, it raises the (off topic) question of why he's done nothing to help win the release of Meriam Ibrahim, the woman chained to a wall in Sudan for wack sharia offenses. Her 'spouse- and mother of Americans' status surely earns her at least as much help from the State Dept. as an apparently treasonous deserter.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

You just did. As usual.

Pretty much says it all. I wonder when Michelle will start sporting her 50k burqa?

If the President was a muslim, what would be the would be the problem?

AND MBD apologized to someone the the other day for being insulting. And you two have some sort of weird mutual desire to be able to continue discourse. Life is good.

Any day Lost and Marvin are going to have a bonding moment and my head is going to fall off.

Change you can believe in.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Meriam Ibrahim is not a USC, as far as I know. And must have known the laws of her land

[novedsac 355]

Meriam Ibrahim is not a USC, as far as I know. And must have known the laws of her land

Correct, she's not a USC. And as far as I can tell, the baby is not yet a USC either.

No reason for the US Government to be involved in her situation at all.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Yep. Apples and pears. UB just wants attention, methinks.

[GandD 5,966]

Pretty much says it all. I wonder when Michelle will start sporting her 50k burqa?

YEAH, I WONDER!

[UncleBeer 244]

and as far as I can tell, the baby is not yet a USC either.

No reason for the US Government to be involved in her situation at all.

Both children were born in-wedlock, so State Department policy is to assume all offspring are US citizens.

Children born in wedlock are generally presumed to be the issue of that marriage.

Apparently the State Dept. is "going rogue" in this case though for reasons they prefer not to make public. More of that "transparency" we were promised ...