the face of the first taliban i kill as a mask. that is not somebody who wants to go there to help the afghan people. very, very interesting. you have the real information. all of this is coming to us in bits and pieces and frankly from the administration, i think there s been a real attempt to spin initially and try to reframe this trade with the taliban, the five taliban leaders. tell me what happened and what happened when he left post? well, when i was in basic training, i was basic training at the same time as bowe. and the drill sergeants told us, while you re there, if you walk away from basic trining, they are not going to try to find you. but if you walk away and you re carrying a weapon, they are going to search the ends of the earth to find you and chapter you out of the army for having stolen a weapon. when bergdahl left, he took all of his gear off. he left his assigned weapon and he walked away. and i think that maybe those words were ringing for him and
and secondly, it tells me, we were getting worried about these guys not only the terrorist prop gappeda video and they were patting each other on the back. and may have helped to tip us to the target. but more intelligence showing that president obama s restriction on drone attacks were back firing on us. and so this is all good. that is a large number of al-qaeda terrorist whether they are recruits or old drill sergeants, it is a good, good score. the important thing. they are a tactic and not a strategy. and we still don t have an aggressive strategy for dealing with al-qaeda. you said something there. do you think that the public dissimination of that video led possibly to the series of attacks we heard about in the last 72 hours?
lynn cotton on a farm, you would get thick skin and it would be thickened more by drill sergeants. so i don t get offended by much. i am surprised that he doesn t think we need more veterans in congress. i think men who sacrificed a lot more than senator pryor or i, like sam johnson or john mccain have been great leaders in the united states senate and congress. frankly, i think if we had more people in the congress who were veterans, congress might be a little more respected, like our military is. not all are democrats or republicans. but when they go in, they have a sense of service like the people who serve in the military. so we got word to senator pryor. we wanted him to come on. instead they just sent this statement. so let s read it together. this is from his campaign: quote, of course mark is grateful for congressman cotton s service. but this campaign is about two very different records in congress and it s cotton s irresponsible votes against medicare, social security, and
the nsa to agree not to access the material for intelligence gathering. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff warning of a grimed future for afghanistan without u.s. help. army general martin dempsey says the absence of a long-term security pact would affect the morale of afghan soldiers, and the general s afraid some of them could side with the taliban. afghan leader hamid karzai has refused to sign the agreement. president obama wants the pentagon to speed up plans to pull all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. still, he is hoping that hamid karzai s replacement will sign the pact. the election in afghanistan is this spring. new developments concerning sex assault in the military. the army says it has removed nearly 600 soldiers from positions of trust as rape counselors, recruiters and drill sergeants because of infractions ranging from sex assaults to child abuse to drunk driving. meantime, a senate bill aimed at taking the prosecution of sexual offenders out of the hands of m
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