Rob O’Neill: What the Judge Did Today Sentencing Bergdahl Was Wrong

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O'NEILL: "This is one of the many missions I happened to be a part of. I was on the base when Bowe Bergdahl walked out. I remember waking up and being told an American deserted and we had to go get him, and it was a large part of my team and other coalition forces that we actually stopped what we were doing in the war effort, which meant, for our team, we stopped going against high-value individuals to take on very, very high-risk missions to get this guy that we knew very well walked off the base as the villagers turned him over to the network and tried to move him over to be in Pakistan. We went night after night doing very dangerous stuff, and there were people killed. The army was quick to dismiss — six soldiers killed in that time frame. Maybe they weren’t necessarily going after Bergdahl, but they were in the right place at the right time. They were killed. One of my guys from my squadron was shot. He would have died had he been with anyone else. He was hit in the femoral artery. The dog he was with were killed. Big dumb pipe because they landed in a spot right in what we call the X, next to the target. My team went to assist them with that fight. A lot of people were hurt and it’s all because this guy was a deserter and it’s that simple. He did get rolled up by the telephone, and he suffered a lot at their hands, but that is all because of what he did. The stuff he went through, that is a punishment for what he did. Now with this judge to just let him go, what about the people that were killed? What about the soldiers that were injured? What about the wife who said she could no longer hold her husband’s hand because he’s in a wheelchair, shot trying to get Bergdahl. Think about the countless high-value individuals that we stopped going after, that escaped, that may be made improvised explosive devices that could have killed Marines going on. All of this war effort stopping because there is one guy left. I said before I was going to keep my mouth shut hoping the military judicial system or do something the right way, but I think this judge dropped the ball, I think it said, I think they have something against this administration. I don’t know what it is. I think they made a bad call."