Mike Durant
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I guess it did end perfectly for me, but not for the country.
Yeah, absolutely.
But anyway.
Once Oakley, and he's since passed, but I met with him a couple of times.
So he's told me this personally.
He said, look, I met with him and I said, you people have two choices.
You got serious damage control to do with what you did to the remains of the American soldiers.
Now, you could make that a little better by releasing Durant or not.
And if you don't, eventually we're going to figure out where he is.
And if you haven't paid attention, the carrier battle group's back.
The tanks are here.
AC-130's back.
We've plussed up the force to, I don't know, I don't know how many, 10,000 maybe.
And we're going to wipe out your clan.
Your call.
Within 48 hours, they let me go.
He said he didn't make a deal.
All I can tell you is what the man told me.
I didn't want them to make a deal.
I honestly did not.