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Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Alinsky Tactic, Blame America: Obama makes 'no apologies' for Bergdahl terror trade and dismisses anger as controversy 'whipped up' in Washington

The long term Obama-Alinsky Strategy: Use a new crisis or scandal to shroud the current and past ones. m/r



Obama makes 'no apologies' for Bergdahl terror trade and dismisses anger as controversy 'whipped up' in Washington | Mail Online

Obama makes 'absolutely no apologies' for Bergdahl terror trade and dismisses anger as controversy 'whipped up' in Washington

  • Obama appeared in Brussels alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron during a G7 meeting in Brussels
  • He insisted that 'we had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated,' despite a fit-looking Bergdahl who appeared in a Taliban video during Saturday's hostage hand-over
  • Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that giving Congress 30 days' notice, as federal law requires, 'would have seriously imperiled us ever getting him out'
  • Hagel said the decision to swap five Taliban leaders for Bergdahl was 'unanimous' inside the West Wing of the White House
  • The president dismissed a swarm of objections from Congress as 'par for the course' when he makes tough decisions
  • Sen. Ted Cruz says he will introduce a bill ordering the halt of all detainee deportations from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
PUB, 5 June 2014

Barack Obama doubled down Thursday on his handling of the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap, saying he makes 'no apologies' for releasing five Taliban terrorists in exchange for the safe return of an accused U.S. Army deserter.
'I make absolutely no apologies for making sure we get back a young man to his parents,' he said in Brussels during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, 'and that the American people understand that this is somebody’s child and that we don’t condition whether or not we make the effort to try to get them back.'
'We had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated, and we were deeply concerned about [him],' Obama told reporters. 'And we saw an opportunity and we seized it. And I make no apologies for that.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649726/Obama-I-make-no-apologies-Bergdahl-prisoner-swap.html#ixzz33mx31ytR
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