We now know why President Obama traded five top Taliban for Bowe Bergdahl

By Michael Becker

Because Bergdahl was, apparently a deserter and virulently anti-American. We’re sure President Obama believes in his heart that it was a great trade. Here’s a snip from the New York Post.

Bowe Bergdahl would detail his disillusionment with the Afghanistan campaign in an e-mail to his parents three days before he went missing.

“I am sorry for everything here,” he wrote. “These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid.”

Bergdahl also complained about fellow soldiers. The battalion commander was a “conceited old fool,” he said, and the only “decent” sergeants, planning to leave the platoon “as soon as they can,” told the privates — Bergdahl then among them — “to do the same.”

“I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools,” he concluded. “I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”

His dad, who looks like a Taliban convert, responded to the email with this exhortation:  “OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!”  It appears he did.

One night, after finishing a guard-duty shift Bowe Bergdahl asked his team leader whether there would be a problem if he left camp with his rifle and night-vision goggles — to which the team leader replied “yes.”

Bergdahl then returned to his bunker, picked up a knife, water, his diary and a camera, and left camp, according to Rolling Stone.

The next morning, he was reported missing, and later that day, a drone and four fighter jets ­began to search for him.

It’s pretty clear, based on this account, that Bergdahl is a deserter, and this is where it gets really interesting. For some reason the army pushed the soldiers in his unit – and his parents – to sign non-disclosure agreements.

The White House has been, as we’d expect, silent on this. “Frankly, we don’t give a s–t why he left,” one White House official said at the time. “He’s an American soldier. We want to bring him home.” Left unsaid was, “So the President can look like he cares about the troops.”

We’re sure the major media will be in full damage control mode, but this may have legs because Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers are very unhappy with him.

Javier Ortiz, a former combat medic in the Army, said he is frustrated with Bergdahl’s actions and thinks he should be tried for desertion, even after five years in captivity in Pakistan. Many U.S. troops had misgivings about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while they were deployed but did not act on them as Bergdahl did, said Ortiz, of Lawton, Okla.

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“Because of Bergdahl, more men were out in danger, and more attacks on friendly camps and positions were conducted while we were out looking for him,” it continued. “His actions impacted the region more than anyone wants to admit.”

And this…

“I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on,” said former Sergeant Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl’s platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. “Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him.”

Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

If Barack Obama had a son in the US Army, he’d be Bowe Bergdahl.