Gen. McChrystal We Knew Right Away That Bergdahl Went AWOL

Jeffdunetz | May 27, 2015
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 "I had been in command about a month or so when he left in 2009. My initial understanding based upon the reporting I got is that he had walked off intentionally.  I do not know if he walked off to be picked up by the Taliban or just walked off. We made a massive effort to try to get him back for a couple reasons. One is he was one of our soldiers, its was the right thing to do . Second we didn't want him to get taken by the Taliban and put in Pakistan.  I think he was a confused young man which was my assumption at the time, and that will probably turn out to be the judgment of time. But it became this focus of a propaganda effort on the part of those who held him, and it became powerful against the United States and put us in a difficult position."

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