Death scorecard: George W. Bush: 1,000,000+; Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: 0

I never fault any soldier who walks away from a criminal war, whether a German leaving the Wehrmacht during WWII, or American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl taking a powder from our nasty and endless Afghan war. So I lament the cravenly political decision of Gen. Robert Abrams to ignore the recommendation of Lt. Col. Mark Visger to treat Bergdahl's hike as a misdemeanor, with a one year maximum sentence, and charge him with a felony that could end Bergdahl's walkin' around days for life. Abram's flinch was likely result of Congressional Chicken Hawks promising retribution should he opt for the more humane, lighter sentence. Then there is Agent Orange, a.k.a. The Donald, whose made Bergdahl's demonetization a signature applause point in his Xenophobic run for the presidency. Bergdahl didn't march out of camp to join the Taliban or hurt his squad. He simply had enough of criminal war and voted with his feet. Alas, the Taliban interrupted his march to sanity; imprisoning and torturing him for 5 years till the President traded him for five suspected bad guys and a future draft choice.

The destroy-Bergdahl claque continues the myth that the search for him got fellow soldiers killed. If they were really concerned about punishing those who take life unnecessarily, their venom would be better spent investigating and then prosecuting former president George W. Bush, whose criminal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have arguably got more than a million folks killed in the Middle East, including over 7,000 of Bergdahl's fellow soldiers.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has suffered enough. Let him come before Congress and school the Chicken Hawks who spend our valuable trillions on endless criminal war, endless refugee creation and endless death. And let George W. Bush be moved out of his spacious mansion into a space about the size of one of his closets to ponder the carnage he unleashed in the Middle East that has turned that pitiful region into a cauldron of despair and death.