As the Bergdahl Heat Increases, Look Who Obama is Throwing Under the Bus Now

June 10, 2014 By Jennifer Burke

Obama stood before the podium and defended his decision to release five of the top Taliban terrorists from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who is believed by many to be at the very least a deserter and at worst a traitor. ABC News reported on Obama’s staunch defense of that controversial exchange, one that puts America and American lives in danger.

“Regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American soldier back if he’s held in captivity. True. Full stop,” Obama said at a news conference at the Belweder Palace here this morning. “We don’t condition that. That’s what every mom and dad who sees a son or daughter sent over into war theater should expect from not just their commander in chief but the United States of America.
“The United States has always had a pretty sacred rule. And that is we don’t leave our men or women in uniform behind, and that dates back to the earliest days of our revolution,” he said.
Obama continued the defense of the decision by stating, “”We saw an opportunity. We were concerned about Sergeant Bergdahl’s health. We had the cooperation of the Qataris to execute an exchange, and we seized that opportunity. The process was truncated because we wanted to make sure we did not miss that window.” He even later stated that he made no apologies for the decision.
Now, amid animosity about this decision that was made without following the ‘law of the land’ to inform Congress 30 days before the release of any Guantanamo detainees and the questions surrounding Bergdahl’s desertion along with the belief by some top military officials that he was collaborating with the Taliban, the ‘we’ has turned to ‘he’. Barack Obama, who shallowly claims at times that the buck stops with him, is now pinning the decision on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
According to a report by The Daily Mail, Obama administration officials told Congress on Monday that the final approval for the exchange of Bergdahl for five Taliban members, dubbed “Taliban Dream Team” was made by Secretary Hagel. If the illegal negotiation was actually finalized through a decision by Hagel, would that not negate the argument that Obama, as ‘commander-in-chief’ had the authority to execute the trade?
Rep. Buck McKean (R-CA) perhaps shed the best light on the cowardly hypocrisy by Obama’s changed claim that Hagel was the decision-maker. Rep. McKean said, “It was the president of the United States that came out (in the Rose Garden) with the Bergdahls and took all the credit and now that there’s been a little pushback he’s moving away from it and it’s Secretary Hagel?’

Do you think Obama should have negotiated with terrorists in trading five top Taliban terrorists to free the POW?