Ralph Peters was furious tonight that the State Department would suggest that the troops from the front lines who have come forward to call Bergdahl a deserter are liars.
“SHE’S A LIAR!”, said Peters of the State Department spokeswoman, who then went on to say that the military knew in hours that Bergdahl was a deserter and he’s never heard a single report from the military that contradicts it.
Peters also pointed out that he’s tired of hearing ‘instant experts’ who say that we always go and get our troops and bring them home. He said while it’s true that we’ve done that for much of our history, when it comes to deserters we bring them home and execute them or put them in prison to pay for their crimes.
He said desertion in the military is the second greatest sin next to turning your weapon on your fellow soldiers.
In response to the idea that the administration expected ‘euphoria’ over the release of Bergdahl, Peters said that no one wants to tell Obama that he’s the “emperor who has no clothes” and he’s getting bad advice from his inner circle because they misread the American people and deeply misread the military.
He ended by saying that Obama disdains our troops, pointing out that he uses them as political props and then does something like this, bringing home a deserter and giving his family a hero’s welcome at the White House:
“If [Obama] wanted to really honor our troops, instead of having Mr. and Mrs. Bergdahl, the father and mother of an alleged deserter and celebrating them and giving them more attention that he’s given any military family, he should have had at the White House the families of the at least six soldiers who died searching for and trying to free Bowe Bergdahl.”
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