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USA TODAY Poll: Obama Mishandled Bergdahl Exchange

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A new USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll showed that public opposition to the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has less to do with Bergdahl and more with how US President Obama handled the transfer, as its website published on Monday.

The recent poll showed that 43% of Americans said it was wrong for Obama to make the deal, compared with 34% who said it was the right thing to do.

Thirty percent of those surveyed have a strong opinion of Bergdahl, whose decision to leave his post in 2009 and subsequent capture by the Taliban is under investigation by the Army.
Of those thirty percent, half of them said they were sympathetic, and half said they were angry with Bergdahl.

Moreover, the 128 veterans included in the poll were much more harsh in their assessment of Bergdahl. Only 6% of veterans who responded said they sympathized with him, while 33% said they were angry.
By 68%-16%, veterans say Obama made the wrong decision.

The director of public affairs for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Joe Davis, said that veterans are worried about the precedent set by the transfer.

"We have a long history in this country of not negotiating with terrorists," he said. "And we just did."

Sources: News Agencies, Edited by website team