Bowe Bergdahl: Another example of the conservatives dumping on the weakest among us.

Taliban POW Had Psych Issues Before Enlisting, May Have "Gone Galt" (Click here to read more)

Adam Weinstein
Wednesday 12:03pm
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the Taliban's controversial ex-captive, was speedily dismissed from the Coast Guard for psychological reasons before the Army recruited him, and was reading Atlas Shrugged shortly before he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan.
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Those revelations come from Kim Harrison, a close friend of Bergdahl's, who provided the Washington Post with a trove of his correspondence and said she was appalled at the conservative media's portrayal of the troubled erstwhile soldier as a calculating, pro-Taliban traitor:
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    Harrison and others close to Bergdahl said his writing and the events surrounding the Coast Guard discharge raise questions about his mental fitness for military service and how he was accepted into the Army in 2008. Typically, a discharge for psychological reasons would disqualify a potential recruit.
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    According to Coast Guard records, Bergdahl left the service with an "uncharacterized discharge" after 26 days of basic training in early 2006. The term applies to people discharged before completing 180 days of service. No reason is specified in such discharges, and a Coast Guard representative said no further information was available.

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