Obama Was Against Negotiating w/ Terrorists Before He Was For It

This nugget comes from Gateway Pundit:

Back in 2008 Barack Obama blasted Republicans for suggesting he would negotiate with terrorists.

“John McCain has repeated this notion that I’m prepared to negotiate with terrorists. I have never said that. I have been adamant about not negotiating with Hamas, a terrorist organization that has vowed to destroy Israel and won’t recognize them.”

After months of negotiations with the Taliban, Obama traded five top Taliban leaders this week for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

And Progressives Today not that one of the Five released from Guantanimo has already vowed to reenter the fight against Americans in Afghanistan:

Taliban leader Noorullah Noori promised to return to Afghanistan and fight the Americans after his arrival in Qatar. NBC News reported:

One of the five Taliban leaders freed from Guantanamo Bay in return for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release has pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan, according to a fellow militant and a relative.

“After arriving in Qatar, Noorullah Noori kept insisting he would go to Afghanistan and fight American forces there,” a Taliban commander told NBC News via telephone from Afghanistan.

Noori pushed to return to Afghanistan after learning that the U.S. had provided written assurances that no country would arrest any of the five freed for a year as long as they lived peacefully, one of his relatives told NBC News by telephone from Afghanistan.

Under the terms of the deal, the former commanders would remain under the control of the government of Qatar for one year and be subject to “restrictions on their movement and activities,” a senior U.S. official has told NBC News –- including a one-year travel ban. A diplomatic source later told NBC News that their movements within the Arab emirate are not restricted.

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