what should be the course of action? lieutenant colonel bill cowan is a former news fox news military analyst. good to see you, sir, this morning. thanks, arthel. good to be with you. i want to start here. do you think bergdahl should be court-martials? well, look, i m a combat veteran. my son s on his fifth tour in afghanistan. i ve heard what all the young men who served with bergdahl have to say. i m with all of them. this guy needs to be charged with; but the problem is going to be the element of proof in whatever he might be charged with which could range from awol, away without official leave, desertion which is the key word people are use right now, or in james rosen s report, corroboration with the enemy, a lot he could be charged with. the question is what are the elements of proof that are going to get a conviction, and it will be difficult, no matter what. so you definitely believe he should be court-martials. i ask you, would a psychological evaluation have to tak
the garwood story is riddled with myths, distortions, uneasy lies and questions never to be answered. in 1965, garwood, then 19 years old, was captured by them and showed up some time in 1967. during operation homecoming in 1973 when many americans p.o.w.s were released, garwood was not among them. at his court marshal and in other accounts, fellow prisoners testified that garwood, like bergdahl, had gone awol, to the point of wearing the uniform of the north vietnamese army and trying to indockery nate fellow prisoners. he learned the language, made radio broadcasts, carried a rifle and sometimes took guard over american p.o.w.s all while his captors starved and tortured to death a number of his camp mates.
holding the accountability to bergdahl is probably my first and foremost concern that i have. the comments that have been made about bringing him home as a hero are very disconcerning to me. are just a few. all right. so when you hear ambassador rice and jay carney say he served with honor, that disturbs you? oh, absolutely. i mean, how do you consider somebody who serves with honor that is disrespecting their own fellow soldiers, that care about him and on top of all of that, my son, who goes and looks for him, because he has went awol, is killed. do you believe that the sergeant should be prosecuted when he comes back here, put on trial? absolutely. definitely. yes. absolutely, yeah. there is a code of justice that when these
holding the accountability to bergdahl is probably my first and foremost concern that i have. the comments that have been made about bringing him home as a hero are very disconcerning to me. are just a few. all right. so when you hear ambassador rice and jay carney say he served with honor, that disturbs you? oh, absolutely. i mean, how do you consider somebody who serves with honor that is disrespecting their own fellow soldiers, that care about him and on top of all of that, my son, who goes and looks for him, because he has went awol, is killed. do you believe that the sergeant should be prosecuted when he comes back here, put on trial? absolutely. definitely. yes. absolutely, yeah. there is a code of justice that when these
something really awful and actionable under the uniform code of military justice that can be adjudicated under the normal processes and due process he is accorded by the uniform code of military justice. the idea that we have to declare now what his nature is, i don t understand it, colonel. well, if you want to look at it from a legal point of view, and by legal, i mean the uniform code of military justice, the body of laws that governs our military, the only way we would have ever had an investigation and determine how he left the forces in afghanistan is to bring him home. that s right. we certainly would have done it while he was in the hands of the afghans. that s correct. mark jacobson and colonel lawrence wilkerson, thank you gentlemen both. you re welcome. coming up, the conservative media loses its mind over sergeant bowe bergdahl. six soldiers died searching for this guy that may have gone a.w.o.l., may have desserted. this is a perfect example of obama s inco