GOP SPLIT ON HOW TO CRITICIZE OBAMA FOR TRADING DETAINEES
FOR BERGDAHL
by R J Shulman
WASHINGTON – (PTSD News Service) – President Obama’s
decision to trade five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo for the release of
American Prisoner of War Bowe Bergdahl has created a rift in the Republican
Party on which theory they should use to show the American people just how
shockingly wrong the President’s action was.
“At first, we were going to attack Obama on waiting so long
to free an American soldier,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, “after
all, the Commander in Chief should know the age old American military policy not to leave any American in uniform behind and we thought it would be politically
important to remind the American people that Obama had over five years to get
Bergdahl safely home, but instead he wasted his time on telling our troops to
stand down at Benghazi, telling the IRS to target conservatives, setting up
death panels under Obamacare and directing goon squads to take guns away from
law abiding citizens.”
But a second theory of Obama outrage has emerged that seems
to be winning over GOP leaders. This
faction does not want to claim that Obama made the trade too late, but that he
should not have made it at all. “When it
came to light that there may be flaws in Bergdahl’s character and that pictures
of the five Taliban fighters looked exactly like central casting’s
idea of the scariest kind of Muslim terrorist, it became more politically
important to show that Obama’s sin was not a late trade, but a bad trade, just like
$24 dollars in beads for the island of Manhattan,” said Speaker of the House
John Boehner.
However, there is still disagreement between the Republican
establishment, who want to attack Bergdahl as a deserter, traitor and malcontent,
while Tea Party Republicans want to disparage Bergdahl by exposing that he believes
in evolution and climate change. “Worst
of it all and the reason that Obama should have left Bergdahl behind in
Afghanistan,” said Senator Ted Cruz, “is that Bergdahl voted for Obama.”
Senator John McCain had a slightly different take on the
matter, saying his is outraged by Obama negotiating with the enemy. “Except for trading some Viet Cong for me
when I was a POW in North Viet Nam, we should never trade war prisoners for captured
American soldiers.”
Darrell Issa, (R-Cal.), said that he is launching an
investigative committee to determine whether making a bad trade is an
impeachable offense. “”I think it is,” Issa said, “and even if it’s not, it should
be. Just ask those long suffering Red
Sox fans about sending Babe Ruth to the Yankees.”