Code Pink’s leadership has aligned
with almost every tyrannical force opposing the U.S., from Chavez to Ahmadinejad to Hamas to Iraq insurgents. Code Pink
has organized a Gaza march (code for anti-Israel demonstration) to call for an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip, currently
controlled by Hamas who often diverts such aid for its own purposes. Hamas also builds support by providing social services,
so if such aid didn’t directly go to supporting the group’s violent operations, it certainly did go to support
its recruiting efforts.
Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic organization whose goal is to
wage “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’
its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made
victorious over all other religions.” In other words, it wants to create a worldwide Islamic state. Code Pink has also
teamed up with this extremist organization, placing ads on its website asking them to “join us in cleansing our country.”
Footnote: Barack Hussein Obama gave $920.3 million U.S. tax dollars to this same Hamas group as when their rockets failed
to bring-down Israel.
Code Pink has been embraced by the Iranian government. Jodie Evans, a Code Pink leader,
met with Ahmadinejad in New York in September 2008, resulting in her trip to Iran two months later.
In January 2006,
Evans and other colleagues including Cindy Sheehan met with Venezuela’s President Chavez. Medea Benjamin, Code Pink’s
communist anti-American leader, called Hugo Chavez a “doll,” and said “George Bush—and
John Kerry for that matter—could learn a thing or two from Hugo Chavez about winning the hearts and minds of the people.”
Jodie
Evans’ reaction to the 9/11 attacks shows a complete ignorance of the ideological element of the terrorists, instead
linking the disaster to Middle Eastern anger over U.S. foreign policy. She agreed in an interview stating that Bin Laden had
a valid argument against the U.S., and said, “Why do we have bases in the Middle East? We totally violated the rights
of that country,” referring to Saudi Arabia. Apparently, Evans is too stupid to research that those bases were constructed
with the permission of the Saudi government and are meant to protect the country from the very people she defends, like Saddam
Hussein.
In 2003, Saddam hosted Evans and other Code Pink members in Iraq, aware that their anti-war activism had crossed
the line into propaganda efforts on his behalf. As long as a regime redistributes wealth and is socialistic in how it governs,
the country is praised by Code Pink, who seems to have little passion for promoting democracy, free markets or the human rights
of oppressed citizens overseas. This type of thinking was apparent when she praised Saddam Hussein’s social services,
saying “there was a good education and health care system, food for everyone. That system didn’t belong to Saddam,
it belonged to the Iraqis, it belonged to year of creating what a civilization needed. If your parents didn’t send you
to school, they could be put in jail.”
After Saddam’s toppling, Evans supported the insurgents fighting
American soldiers, ignoring the fact that many of these were foreign jihadists affiliated with Al-Qaeda-type groups, and were
former members of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guards, Fedayeen militia, and intelligence service. To Code Pink, these
forces of oppression and evil were the representatives of the Iraqi people fighting for liberation. They are completely unaware
that the insurgents fight not only against American forces, but target Iraqi civilians and want to overthrow Iraq’s
elected democratic government.
When Coalition forces began an offensive into Fallujah when it was the primary safe harbor
of the insurgents, Code Pink reacted by delivering tens of thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid to its residents. This
act sounds noble on the surface, but when you consider the group’s sympathy for the insurgents, it is quite possible
that this aid was given to the enemy side. Furthermore, Evans and her delegation met with Iraqi politicians connected to the
extremist Iranian-backed militia leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, and other supporters of killing American soldiers.
Evans has,
according to her friend Jane Fonda, met with members of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Benjamin has tried to paint them
as being motivated by lack of employment.
“Everybody we talked to said that most of the Taliban are poor rural
people, $10-a-day Taliban, who are doing this for economic reasons. If you want to encourage people to stop fighting, encourage
them to work,” Benjamin said. A group of counter-protestors were confronted by Evans on August 30, 2004. During
the exchange, Evans reportedly said, “We have nothing against communism.” This shouldn’t be surprising considering
Medea Benjamin’s ties to the Workers World Party and described her life in Cuba as feeling like she had “died
and went to heaven.”
Code Pink’s embracing of anti-American actors is part of a calculated strategy. Medea
wrote in 2003 that members of the movement she belonged to needed to “link up with appropriate local and regional groups”
overseas to “channel the bursting anti-American sentiment overseas.” Forces supporting America are left out as
part of the equation.
Code Pink is not a group genuinely promoting peace and human rights. The organization links up
and supports virtually any anti-American actor, ignoring their oppression of their citizens that can hardly qualify as “peace”
and the threat that they pose. In choosing its friends, Code Pink’s leadership has decided that the sole standard is
that they must be an enemy of the United States.
Once again, another radical group is discovered to have close ties
to President Barak Hussein Obama; the same Code Pink group of American citizens actively rallying jihadists and encouraging
them to commit war crimes.
Most alarming however is the absolute media silence who are otherwise engaged
in the life and death debate over how many times Harry Reid should apologize for his sin of speaking the truth about race.
The
media ‘watchdogs’ are asleep and the ones we trust to protect us are instead offering aid and comfort to our enemies
when they’re not prosecuting Navy Seals, CIA officials and anyone else whose job is to keep America safe.
Is
there anything worse than a Code Pink whore and those who support them? They, like the occupant in our White House,
make me ashamed to be an American anytime I see their names. Is it any wonder these hogs are headquartered in California?
And yes, they picket our military and their families, and our wounded military, those same people who not only keep them free,
but help people around the world with humanitarian efforts and help fight California’s forest fires as great personal
risk.
No wonder Code Pink gets support from the Democrat Party; and visa versa.
A Veteran's Letter to the
President of Vietnam by: BBeanhammer@aol.com December
02, 2009
To: President Nguyen Minh Triet
Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
Hanoi, Vietnam
Subject: Unsolicited
Apologies
Date: December 02, 2009
Gentlemen:
I wanted to contact you to
make my position known before someone else, to wit: President Barack Hussein Obama, tries to erroneously speak for me out
of hand and without my permission.
You see, I am and American and I speak for myself. This is not an exclusively
American trait, there are self-thinkers and outspoken men and women in every corner of the world. I want to make a few things
clear as I am one of those outspoken self-thinkers and I have earned the right to have and express my own thoughts by the
grace of God and my skill at arms.
First, I was engaged in combat in your nation with my fellow United States
Military brothers and sisters against your communist North Vietnamese Army and the Viet-cong forces in the years of 1968 and
1969. I served with my unit in and around the Binh Thuy area on the Bassac River and was engaged with your fighting forces
on a number of occasions. The exact things I was engaged in are irrelevant.
Secondly, and most importantly,
I am not sorry in any way for having served in my nation's forces when we were engaged in warfare with your military and
people's forces. I am proud of my service just as I am certain the men who served in your army are proud of their own
service and nation.
Having stated this very directly gentlemen, I would now like to add emphatically that
Barack Hussein Obama, current President of the United States of America does NOT speak for me if he apologizes to your nation
for American involvement in the war of which I spoke.
I did not ask him to apologize and an apology was
not requested by the American people. I want you and your nation to know that neither I nor America have anything for which
we need to apologize. I am an individual man and do not propose to speak for anyone except myself. I alone do not represent
the American people though I am one of those as well.
Gentlemen, many years have passed and our two nations
are no longer antagonists. We have become trade partners and the war from so many years ago has ended. It is not impertinence
that places me in a position to contact and speak to you but the need to defend the honor and integrity of my service to my
country and the service of my brother and sister veterans.
I ask nothing of you, not even a reply though
if such is returned to me, I shall respond as best as I can.
We Americans are a proud people and will not
allow anyone, not even our elected President, to speak for us. I hold no animosity toward your nation or your fighting men,
that is long behind me. I ask only that you realize that President Obama is one man, our current elected leader but his words
are not my words nor America's words, they belong to him.
I reiterate that apologies offered to you or
anyone in my name is unacceptable to me, though he is our national chief executive, he has not gained the right nor the mandate
to demean my country to any other country or leader. I would expect that you would also be compelled to address any statements
made by your leaders or appointed representatives with which you disagree and do so in a direct and assertive manner.
In my nation, We The People, are superior to the leaders we elect. Keep that in mind for the future and do not believe another
man's apology by proxy as if those words are my own, they are not. These are my words, read them as the words of a single
fighting man who was once your opponent.
I wish you and your nation peace but will not sacrifice my personal
honor and integrity to another man no matter who he may be to achieve this peace. I would not ask another to bear the burden
of my opinions and actions and I will not tolerate any who would speak words that do not come from my mouth nor my heart.
I close with this statement: I respect those who state their mind even when it opposes my opinions so long as
they are courageous enough to state their case and stand by their words. Second hand apologies are empty and meaningless so
I do not condone them nor offer them. To accept such empty words diminishes all involved.
Thank you for your
time in reading this, I hope it explains what may appear to be a dilemma in which one man refuses to allow another to speak
in his name. There is no dilemma just a different singular voice from out of America who speaks for himself.
Sincerely, An American Veteran
cc: President Barack Hussein Obama
Muslim Terrorist Attack at Ft. Hood, Texas November 5, 2009
Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan,
a Muslim, opened-fire at one of the Army's largest posts in the world killing 12 U.S. soldiers and wounding 31.
Details are still coming in, but several sources say Major Hasan did not want to go to Iraq. Today's massacre was
clearly planned, opening Army-wide concern about Muslims serving among infidel soldiers. This will more than likely
affect morale Army-wide. More details as they become available.
Greetings
I took the last week as some time for myself and a chance to work on my upcoming CD-Rom. I started
receiving "re" response messages about the photo of the KIA in transit to the States before I even saw the photo
itself. After reading one or two outraged responses I went seeking this photo and found it on the cover page of the opening
screen of good old AOL, figures doesnt it?
I stared, knowing what those coffins held as only a military veteran can
"know", I couldn't help myself. I got all choked and had to shut it down, sat here for a few minutes thinking,
remembering, maybe remembering too much. It was an emotional body-slam. I dont think there's a veteran or active duty
person that doesn't "know" these silvered containers draped with flags and in us it conjures up some awful images,
many times, maybe too many times, we were there when he "got it". These are the images that WE carry, can't
help it, it's part of the turf of being a soldier.
These men's families "know" the military honors
and funeral ceremony, the echo of bugles, a folded flag, a big empty hole in their lives that nothing will ever fill. A community
will mourn and sleep will come hard and distressed, scenes of "jimmy" climbing the tree, jane dressing her dolls,
bob kissing his children and wife at the gate to the local airport, mocking promises of "Ill be fine, I'm coming
home darling..." These are the images that THEY carry, they can't help it either, that's what those who wait
at home fear most while "knowing" that it can happen. There lies ahead now a long and staggering difficult journey
through their life with one gone forever, irretrievably lost to their touch and their words.
OUR PICTURES
As
I stared at the photo of the plane bay with the coffins I realized how compelling a message lay before me. It was compelling.
I know that all I need do is close my eyes and I can see that plane right now. Many other planes too, older planes. Flags
with 48 stars covering the men who served under her, on their way home from some European or Asian hell. Sailors in crisp
whites manning the rail, chief boatswain's mate piping quiet as a canvas- shrouded body was consigned to the depths, I
saw that personally, thats one of the images I carry around, I don't regret it but I don't like to dwell on it either.
Many
of us old soldiers have stood as honors detail to military funerals and have seen the impact and solemnity of the event. Many
continue to serve today in VFW, American Legion and VFW honor guards and firing details. These images are ours whether by
choice or by the "hand that life dealt" you. We remember, we honor and sometimes we weep.
These are
things that belong to us, soldiers, sailors, family members, unit brothers, commanders, loved ones and children. The emotions,
the remembrances, the wild roller coaster that will be ridden, the sorrow and grief. These belong to us. They are OUR pictures
and they are private and personal, that's how I see it. Coffins are not "photogenic" and are not news, they
are self contained tragedies one per container and they belong to those of us who loved them, know them and know the crash
of battle and the screams of the men as they went down. They are NOT public domain, I repeat, they are NOT public domain.
THEIR
FRAMES
A picture says a thousand words, some say these words to our eyes and some say these words to our hearts but
a picture cannot explain itself. It cannot tell the story of the man or woman inside. It cannot foretell what manner of grief
and wrenching trauma lie ahead. It is a frozen piece of film, a moment in time. Many messages can be attached to this picture
depending on the context in which it is shown. By itself it is a simple and sad testimonial to the viciousness of war. Surrounded
by trappings of political intent it can convey many messages from "thank you from a grateful nation" to "how
many more of these picture will we have to see?" The picture doesnt say this, it says nothing, it's the framework
in which it is presented that gives it political voice.
When our KIA came home from Vietnam the media kept a running
tally of the body-counts. The dead do not ask to be counted.
Men who are near death many times will say they are worried
about what the news is going to do to the folks back home, ask a medic or corpsman, ask a dustoff crewman. The dead do not
ask to be used as political pawns.
If the dead could ask for something it would be peace to those left behind.
So how did this picture come to be on my computer and burned into my head?
Easy answer, someone obtained the photos
and "sold" them to the news services. That's where it all went wrong. The dead do not ask to be sold.
Had
the contractor who took the photo kept it to herself as a touching minute she experienced, there would be no outcry or problem?
As for me, I don't need a camera to remember it. But that didn't play out that way, did it? Money changed hands and
copyrights were filed and the dead became a "picture" on the market. When people buy a picture, they frame it to
suit themselves. No one can tell them how to hang it on their wall. The dead do not ask to be hung on a wall.
The selling
of the dead, what have we come to? We honor the almighty dollar more than the sacrifice these coffins represent? I await the
first "political" commercial employing this image.
CLOSER TO HOME
Matt Maupin, the soldier that is MIA
from the convoy and is being held by the enemy, is from very near my home here in Cincinnati, Batavia is one of our outlying
eastern suburbs though a separate little town to itself. In this last week there have been a number of prayer meetings and
support rallies in and around Batavia, and giving credit where credit is due, Channel 19, the local FOX Network affiliate
did not shy away from the mention of church and prayer but reported correctly and even from inside during the service. They
kept back out of the family's way and did NOT interview the worried parents or friends. Thank you for your understanding
and respect Channel 19. I wish I could say the same for all of your cohorts.
There's always some nimrod ready to
poke a microphone or camera in the face of a family member and ask some ridiculous question like "How do you feel about
the war in Iraq now that your son is captured?"
How the hell do you THINK they feel? And why is what they feel,
whatever that is, worthy of the title "News"? I can see the "hounds running the fox" just like the media
did during the Vietnam war. Exploit the situation, spin the report, if it's not news find a way to make it news. And this
"foolishness" around a man who is held as a POW now with no warranty that he will come out of this alive for the
sake of advancing some agenda of their own?
Again, just like with the photo of the plane and its cargo, this has become
a politically hot item and I'm watching as newscasters and "experts" confer and analyze the impact this event
will have on us if he is killed or if he is returned. Much as they hate it the family probably watches every little fragment
if it's about Matt. Nobody has asked Matt what HE wants. Matt Maupin does not want to be a political pawn. He wants to
come home, that's all.
RENDER UNTO CAESAR THAT WHICH IS CAESAR'S...
The picture of the coffins does not
belong to the public it belongs to us as I said before. Matt Maupin does not belong to the press, he belongs to the 1st Infantry
Division, himself and his family, not a panel of University Political science professors of the local newsies. Keep your hands
off our property and keep your frames off them. You don't have the right to seize these images or events and use them
for any purpose at all, least of which should be for money. You should all be horsewhipped is my personal opinion, and this
goes for anyone who would steal the nickels from the eyes of a deadman. With such displays of avarice and twisted purpose
I feel dishonored myself for even having seen them and cannot more strongly condemn your actions if you had formed a baby-raping
posse and hit the streets.
You have no honor, nor even a concept of what that might mean and you are clueless to what
dignity and respect mean. I have come to expect such from media so while no surprise it IS contemptible behavior and shows
more of your "sharkness" than your humanity.
IN CLOSING, I would ask that you each say a prayer for Matt
Maupin, indeed all the soldiers there now, that he may come home soon and safe.
...and above all.. ..think for
yourself...
beansimple said it
Off The Bean Vine Established ® March 28, 2003
CHIEF THIEF Steals Military Bonus Money by Rich Carroll June 26, 2009
Need a fast billion bucks to pay for half-million dollar “date nights?” Perhaps those Wednesday White
House cocktail parties aren’t lavish enough?
No problem. Steal it from the hardest working segment of our
society, our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. After-all, they are in the worst possible position to do anything
about it, so just back-door snake-around and cut-off these planned bonuses. A Spec4 and his expectant young wife couldn’t
possible have planned to do anything purposeful with a ten thousand dollar bonus check.
Let me interrupt my Texas Vacation
to add: I have NEVER been more ashamed of my country. The hogs in Washington allowed bailed-out corporations to
keep their bonuses, but our military people aren’t deserving? Wait, our uniformed military personnel aren’t
campaign contributors.
The worthless coward Senators and Congressmen who allowed this disgusting act of theft to occur
need to slip off in a hole somewhere and hide. You got YOUR regular bonus increase.
Perhaps this is Obama’s
way of running-off the best trained military in the world? It couldn’t possibly take much to make his 400,000
ACORN Army of ex-cons and drug-addicts.
To have at lease SOME impact, copy and paste this to that weasel you call your
Senator. If these hogs and thieves won’t do anything, at least they will know a whole bunch of us are MAD!
1stLt. Behenne, U.S. Army, is the latest victim of a "railroad job", by our gov't for doing his duty
in a combat area. Another appeasement job, like Sgt Hutchins, LtCol Chessani & SSgt Wuhlrich. He is now serving 25 years in Leavenworth. When is the American public going to rear up and get a Congressional Hearing going? Enough
is enough!!!! There are several others out there, walking around as convicted felons, with BCD's & DD's
in their pocket, totally un- warranted. Semper fi, Don Greenlaw
A hijab-wearing Muslim woman crashed the Remembrance Ceremony of the first successful homeland terrorist attack since 9/11. Pvt. William Long was murdereed and Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula was wounded by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad this
week at an Army recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas.
This angry Muslim fanatic showed up at the remembrance
ceremony and screamed anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks at the protesters:
CHANGE you can believe: Muslim Shoots Two
Soldiers in Arkansas
June 1: Suspected gunman Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, is escorted from Little Rock police
headquarters after a recruiting center attack
Military Recruiting Center Shooting Suspect Under FBI Investigation
Tuesday
, June 02, 2009
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A 23-year-old convert to Islam with
"political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another in a targeted
attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas, police said.
The suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, reportedly
had been under investigation by an FBI joint terrorism task force after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested there for using
a Somali passport. The probe was in its early stages and based on Muhammad's trip to Yemen, according to ABC News.
While
there, Muhammad — a U.S. citizen from Memphis who is a convert to Islam and was previously known as Carlos Bledsoe —
studied jihad with an Islamic scholar, Jihadwatch.org reported.
Muhammad told authorities that he approached the
recruiting center in Little Rock by car on Monday and started shooting at two soldiers in uniform, according to a police report.
"He
saw them standing there and drove up and shot them," Lt. Terry Hastings told The Associated Press. "That's what
he said."
Interviews with police show Muhammad "probably had political and religious motives for the attack,"
Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas said.
Muhammad was not part of any terrorist group, nor was his attack part
of a larger conspiracy, according to Thomas.
"We believe that it's associated with his disagreement over
the military operations," the police chief said.
The two soldiers who were shot had completed basic training
within the past two weeks and were not regular recruiters, said Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis of the Oklahoma City Recruiting Battalion,
which oversees the Little Rock office.
William Long, 23, died, and Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, was wounded and in stable
condition, according to Thomas.
Police arrested Muhammad along an interstate highway moments after the shootings.
Thomas said Muhammad would be charged with first-degree murder, plus 16 counts of committing a terroristic act. Thomas said
those counts result from the gunfire occurring near other people.
Witnesses told police that a man inside a black
vehicle pulled up outside the recruiting center and opened fire about 10:30 a.m. Long fell onto the sidewalk outside the center,
while Ezeagwula was able to crawl toward its door.
Police said an assault rifle and other weapons were found in
Muhammad's car when he was arrested
DISGUSTING!: Your
"Commander in Chief" orders U.S. Military to train Palestinain soldiers!! COST: $161 million Purpose: Better Trained Muslims to Kill Jews
June 01, 2009
In addition to the $900 million the Administration offered the Palestinians on March 2, it is working to speed
the establishment of regular Palestinian military and security forces. The U.S. has already trained 1,500 Palestinian soldiers
costing the recession gripped American taxpayer $161 million. These newly trained forces says Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, U.S.
security coordinator for Israel and the PA, “are new men,” unlike the thousands trained by the U.S. since the
creation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994.
The scheme behind the U.S. military initiative to organize
and train the PA military forces is that these “new men” would help Abbas defeat Hamas. However, Abbas had already
indicated that he “has agreed in principle to form a joint security force with …Hamas.” This does not seem
to phase Dayton, who insists that the “new men,” are on a mission to "create a Palestinian state."
Abu Yusef, a member of the PA’s Chairman own security unit - Force 17, has an unambiguous view of the
American military training of the Palestinians:
Air Force Boots Sergeant for Posing in Playboy Michelle Manhurt given dishonorable discharge! What WERE you people thinking?
Signed: Army, Navy, Marines
May 19, 2009
Are Democrats Planning an Attack on Military Retiree Health Benefits?
loudly proclaims that it has a mandate to make health care available to every American, a move is underway by the Democrats,
through the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to effectively reduce such care for some of the most vulnerable of military veterans.
Legislation has already been prepared
that will drastically change and reduce the Tricare for Life benefit plan that assists military retirees over the age of 65.
The Tricare for Life plan was established by law after a decades long fight to make the government live up to its promise to provide earned health care to military retirees and their dependents, who had faithfully served
their nation for more than 20 years. Though a battle on this issue traveled all the way to the Supreme Court, it was determined
that the Armed Forces of the United States did in fact promise lifetime health care to career service personnel, but did not have the authority
to make such promises. Congress was admonished to take corrective action.
The end result was only half a loaf. Congress agreed to provide a supplement to Medicare for
those military retirees above the age of 65. That supplement, titled Tricare for Life, would cover any additional costs not
paid by Medicare. However, the retiree would still be required to enroll in Medicare and accept the services that program
offered.
Many of these retired military veterans
were in desperate need of these medical services when the law was enacted. Those needs continue today. These men and women,
many of whom suffer the after effects of combat related wounds, illnesses associated with everything from Agent Orange to
the Gulf War Syndrome and multiple ailments inflicted upon them during years of military operations on foreign shores, are
among our most vulnerable senior citizens.
This
appears to mean little to our new administration and a majority congressional membership that campaigned for election and
reelection on the backs of the leftist anti-war, anti-military faction of this country. Now with an almost unstoppable majority in the
legislative branch of government, they are seeking to severely alter a medical service previously awarded to a very deserving body of retired
service personnel, because, according the CBO, these retirees "overuse" their health care program. There seems to
be no thought given to the fact that these particular senior citizens are more medically impaired than the average American
of similar age.
The CBO is now seeking passage of their draft legislation that would require these retired military personnel to pay the first $525 of medical cost and
50% of the next $4,750 per person. They claim these changes are needed to help pay for the other programs the President has
promised his constituents.
Such a change will
effectively end the Tricare for Life program that has offered comfort to those who spent their lives defending the nation.
Anyone who has worn the uniform of this country should voice their concerns to their elected officials about this legislation.
According to an account in Newsweek, Biden did give up one of the country's secrets at another dinner where journalists and politicians make fun of Republicans
(and occasionally laugh at each other). Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the Vice President's
Residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Eleanor Clift writes:
Ever wonder about that secure,
undisclosed location where Dick Cheney secreted himself after the 9/11 attacks? Joe Biden reveals the bunker-like room is
at the Naval Observatory in Washington, where Cheney lived for eight years and which is now home to Biden. The veep related
the story to his head-table dinner mates when he filled in for President Obama at the Gridiron Club earlier this year. He
said the young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door
secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment. The
officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden
conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn’t be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.
Obama wants International Treaty that gives
Foreign Troops Identity of American gun owners
Despicable John Kerry vouches for the "character" of
a child porn criminal (SLIME supporting SLIME)
Reporting for Duty
John Kerry vouches for a child-porn criminal.
By JAMES TARANTO May
6, 2009 Wall Street Journal
Wade Sanders, who pleaded guilty in December to possession of child
pornography, was sentenced Monday, and he got off relatively easy. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Judge Thomas Whelan sentenced Sanders to just 37 months in prison--barely a third of the 10-year maximum, and
more than two years less than the 63 months prosecutors had asked for.
Sanders had argued that he deserved
only probation, claiming that what the paper calls "his compulsion to research the world of child pornography" was
"a symptom of his post-traumatic stress disorder that stemmed from his combat service"--that is, he was depraved
on account of he was deployed.
The Union-Tribune describes Sanders as a "war hero," but he
is best known for his service to John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. Kerry's central campaign claim
was that he deserved to be president because his so-called band of brothers, veterans who had served alongside him on Navy
Swift boats in Vietnam, vouched for his heroism and his impeccable character.
Letter from Sgt. Joe Roche "Change has Come. It's Very Demoralizing" April 30,
2009
Amy,
It is frustrating and demoralizing to see the spectacle going on in the press/media
and in Washington, D.C. over the release of the CIA memos and the debate over the use of enhanced interrogation techniques
or torture. My fellow soldiers are NOT impressed, and are actually quite disgusted by the moralizing going on, and the posturing
of some leaders against what we, the United States, had to do in order to get control of the catastrophe that hit us on September
11th, 2001.
The root issue is not being addressed by anyone.
This is that there was a massive intelligence failure and a failure of leadership during the decade leading up to 9/11. Our
country had been attacked nearly every year since the first bombing of the World Trade Center in New York in 1993. The Khobar
Towers bombing (1996), the massive bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (1998), the USS Cole bombing (2000),
including foiled plots such as the Bojinka plot (1995) to hijack a dozen planes in a single day, as well as other attacks
such as the massive bombings in Argentina (1994), the numerous bus bombings in Israel (1995-1996), and there were more. Osama
Bin Laden had been very prominent throughout the 1990s in calling for war against American civilians, issuing his fatwa in
1998 that led to the 9/11 attacks.
I was involved in the fight against terrorism in the Middle East before 9/11 as you
know, and there was a painfully disasterous ignorance and disregard of the threat of Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and terrorism in
general before 9/11. I wrote about this threat in 1995 in my college newspaper and was ridiculed as a racist and bigot for
suggesting such a thing. FBI agents working this issue were blocked in their investigations. The infamous political “wall”
preventing agencies from working together in order to understand the threat was well detailed in the 9/11 Commission Report.
Our
government and leadership failed us in the decade leading up to 9/11. Therefore, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 we had
to quickly learn and clarify exactly what the threat was. There were concerns of nuclear bombs being brought to New York City,
and other WMD warnings. We were blind. Our nation’s intelligence was blind. The American people were in a panic, and
in lieu of the anger over 9/11 the American people were demanding quick action to avert any repeat of the 9/11 disaster. Our
intelligence had no clarity of the extent of the threat, so aggressive measures had to be used quickly just in order to repair
the blindness of not only our intelligence agencies, but also that of our leaders and the American people overall. This is
why such things happened. If those moralizing today want to point the finger of blame
for things they don’t like about what we had to do, they need to point to our leadership and the intelligence agencies
during the decade before 9/11.
I’ve heard that one of our current leaders likes to say that he
told President Bush one day in the Oval Office that if he looked behind, no one was there following him. True. We had dropped
all of our personal affairs, left civilian jobs, said goodbye to loved ones, and joined the military and deployed to the front
lines overseas to confront and reverse the consequences of the past decade of failure. That was where we were, in uniform,
on the front lines, following the leadership of our Commander-in-Chief.
The one
thing we knew before was that we had the backing of our leadership. Yes, change has come. It is very demoralizing.
Joe
April 25, 2009 Enemy in the White House: OBAMA WILL RELEASE PICS OF US
SOLDIERS "ABUSING" TERRORISTS
Another traitorous attack
on behalf of the seditious administration. The military is the enemy. He needs to demonize America's much loved
military. Destroy their reputation. It's what the leftists do. It's how they destroy the enemy. DISINFORMATION
(Soviets were brilliant at this, as are the current EU statist thugs and their tools). The Mohammedan president is going to gin up his constituency across the world while deploying our troops
in a nonsensical military strategy in Afghanistan. Do you see what he is doing? He is going to decimate the military. The
left did this in the 60s. They demonized the war and our troops along with it. This time, they demonized this war, but it
did not work in besmirching our beloved soldiers. So now they have to make them look bad.
BRING HOME THE TROOPS!
Save our boys from a jihad
sympathizing president. I said this in a previous thread -- Obama wants trials. Obama wants to divert attention from his coup
on the Constitution. Dear leader wants to control the images, the news you hear. He needs
to distract the American people while he destroys America. They do not want tea parties, they do not want
cognizance. They do not want you to think about what they are doing. Show trials. It is very much like terrorists
who start a fire to distract first responders, so they can set off a bomb somewhere else.
Obama and his traitors will
"start a fire" and hypnotize the American people with torture! cruelty! and put Bushchimphitler policy on trial
with a special prosecutor, of course, while they overthrow the constitution, capitalism, freedom of speech, and enact gun
control. That is what is happening.
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration agreed late Thursday to release dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuse by U.S.
personnel during the Bush administration of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At
least 44 pictures will be released by May 28 -- making public for the first time images of what the military investigated
as abuse that took place at facilities other than the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Defense Department officials would not say exactly what is contained in the photos, but said they are concerned
that the release could incite a backlash in the Middle East.
The photos,
taken from military criminal investigations of abuse, are apparently not as shocking as the photographs from the Abu Ghraib
investigation that became a lasting symbol of U.S. mistakes in Iraq.
But
some show military service members intimidating or threatening detainees by pointing weapons at them. Military officers have
been court martialed for threatening detainees at gunpoint."This will constitute visual proof that, unlike the
Bush administration's claim, the abuse was not confined to Abu Ghraib and was not aberrational," said Amrit Singh,
a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the agreement as part of a long-running legal battle for documents
related to Bush-era anti-terror policies.
The photo release decision comes
as President Barack Obama is already trying to quell a drive to investigate Bush-era anti-terror practices. But now
the photos and a series of other possible disclosures stemming from the ACLU lawsuit threatens to fuel the already explosive
controversy.
April 25, 2009 A Few Words for the Anti-Torture Kooks: Your Foolishness Will Destroy America by Rich Carroll
Create for yourselves,
for just a moment, a potential scenario looming in the future of The United States.
Our F.B.I. has captured an
Al Qaeda terrorist who knows the whereabouts of a nuclear bomb placed inside a major U.S. city set to detonate within days.
He will give no further information.
Will your President authorize “torture” as any means necessary to find
the location of this device?
This question was posed by NBC’s Meet the Press moderator, Tim Russert, to Presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton prior to his passing, and a few months before the 2008 election.
Her answer was “no.”
Today’s answer from far leftist lunatics at our nation’s helm is the same “no,” signifying
the bitter corrosion of not wanting our country to continue in existence.
Consider the consequences of this answer,
and pick any one of hundreds of possible scenarios. For demonstration purposes let us place a small, 1 megaton device
hidden in a New York City warehouse inside an ordinary 55 gal. steel drum marked “paint solvent.” The fireball
at detonation would be 430 meters across and total fatalities from the air blast for anyone within a 3 mile radius.
Anyone within a 12 mile radius of the blast would suffer 3rd degree burns. Most of the damage will occur within 4.5
seconds of detonation. *atomic energy commission blast calculator A conservative casualty figure would be one million
dead and injured, all because the anti-American crowd in our White House prefer to smooth the road for our “divinely
inspired” killers to walk across. Our “image around the world” has just been changed to: Wimp
slash easy target. Liberals wanted an “image change,” they just got it.
Coupled with releasing
GITMO prisoners onto the streets of America, we are now easy pickings to a dedicated, intent, divinely inspired Islamic terrorist
group wanting to inflict massive infidel casualties. Democrats in the House and Senate just put all Americans in grave
danger.
Obama To Release Terrorists Into The U.S., Violating U.S. Law
Dear Military
Families United Member and Supporter,
First, President Obama announced that he was closing Guantanamo Bay to fulfill two campaign promises
without a plan on the future of the detainees. Then came the release of Binyam Mohammed, a terrorist who admitted to training
at various al-Qaeda camps and has alleged to have plotted multiple attacks on American soil. After that came the announcement
of two more GITMO releases, both of whom trained at al-Qaeda camps and met with Osama bin Laden. Today, Military Families
United has learned that as many as seven GITMO detainees will be freed in the United States, which not only endangers the
lives of American citizens but is a violation of U.S. law.
The seven terrorists, known as "Uighurs," were captured on the Pakistan-Afghanistan
border and were trained at the al-Qaeda affiliated East Turkistan Islamic Movement ("ETIM") Tora Bora camp. Many
of you may recognize the name Tora Bora because in December of 2001, U.S. and Afghan forces were closing in on the location
of Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora, Afghanistan. Not so coincidentally the Uighurs were captured in the area around Tora Bora
while Osama bin Laden was using an escape route from that region. And now these terrorists will be freed in the United States,
no trial, no detention, no justice.
The release of these terrorists will not only endanger
American citizens on our own soil but is against U.S. Law. U.S. law (8 U.S.C. 12 § 1182) which plainly states that any
alien who had engaged in various forms of terrorist activity or training cannot be permitted into the United States. However,
the Administration appears more concerned with the safety of these detainees than that of the American people and what our
laws say.
We need
your help to keep terrorists out of our country. If you haven’t signed our petition at DontFreeTerrorists.org, please do so today. Also, please send this email
to 5 of your friends and family members to let them know about these newest developments.
Our brave men and women in uniform fought to capture
these terrorists, only to be released onto US soil. We used to "fight them there, so we didn’t have to fight them
here." What kind of a message does it send our troops that while they are putting their lives on the line in Iraq and
Afghanistan, we are chartering planes for those who they have captured to live in the very communities our military families
live.
We
need your help to let America know about the dangers of freeing suspected
terrorists. We cannot allow our country be put in danger.
Dear Military Families United Member and Supporter,
First, President Obama announced that he was closing
Guantanamo Bay to fulfill two campaign promises without a plan on the future of the detainees. Then came the release of Binyam
Mohammed, a terrorist who admitted to training at various al-Qaeda camps and has alleged to have plotted multiple attacks
on American soil. After that came the announcement of two more GITMO releases, both of whom trained at al-Qaeda camps and
met with Osama bin Laden. Today, Military Families United has learned that as many as seven GITMO detainees will be freed
in the United States, which not only endangers the lives of American citizens but is a violation of U.S. law.
The seven terrorists, known as "Uighurs,"
were captured on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and were trained at the al-Qaeda affiliated East Turkistan Islamic Movement
("ETIM") Tora Bora camp. Many of you may recognize the name Tora Bora because in December of 2001, U.S. and Afghan
forces were closing in on the location of Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora, Afghanistan. Not so coincidentally the Uighurs were
captured in the area around Tora Bora while Osama bin Laden was using an escape route from that region. And now these terrorists
will be freed in the United States, no trial, no detention, no justice.
The release of these terrorists will not only endanger
American citizens on our own soil but is against U.S. Law. U.S. law (8 U.S.C. 12 § 1182) which plainly states that any
alien who had engaged in various forms of terrorist activity or training cannot be permitted into the United States. However,
the Administration appears more concerned with the safety of these detainees than that of the American people and what our
laws say.
We need
your help to keep terrorists out of our country. If you haven’t signed our petition at DontFreeTerrorists.org, please do so today. Also, please send this email
to 5 of your friends and family members to let them know about these newest developments.
Our brave men and women in uniform fought to capture
these terrorists, only to be released onto US soil. We used to "fight them there, so we didn’t have to fight them
here." What kind of a message does it send our troops that while they are putting their lives on the line in Iraq and
Afghanistan, we are chartering planes for those who they have captured to live in the very communities our military families
live.
We
need your help to let America know about the dangers of freeing suspected
terrorists. We cannot allow our country be put in danger.
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? If I
Go There Will be Trouble. An' If I Stay it will be Double. So Come on and Let Me Know April 20, 2009
This
story is from the wife of an active duty deployed SEAL. For security reasons the name and address have been removed.
Any comments or replys please send to: Crossedrifles@hotmail.com
The title
of this chapter is truer for our families than most anyone I can think of. We miss our husbands terribly when they’re
gone. And yet when they return it means a whole new set of adjustments and challenges. SEALs are away from home on average
233 nights each year, regardless of if they’re deployed or not. This means your husband is home roughly 1/3 of your
marriage. Looking at it in a different way, he gets to be a part of 1/3 of your children’s lives, miss many birthdays,
holidays, anniversaries, perhaps even the birth of his own children. This fact has some unique consequences and leaves little
room for grey area.
For you and your spouse this arrangement either works well or not at all and there isn’t
much in between. The subtlety that takes over in your home is this: It’s your house. He’s a guest. Everyone knows
it. He’s rarely home long enough to get into the rhythm of your family. You develop your own way of caring for your
family and home that he most likely gets into step with for the brief periods of time he’s home. One of the truly
odd things about this arrangement is that life is easier for you both when they’re gone. This isn’t a statement
about your love and commitment. This is about the ease of your life. Because you have developed your own way of running things
in your house it completely throws a wrench into your schedule when he shows up for a week or two, give or take.
From his point of view, he’s likely been staying in a hotel or a barracks, going out to eat with his cohorts
or grabbing some fast food at the end of a very long day. In any event, he’s not had the interaction or demands of children,
school and activities schedules, housework, paying the bills, and well you get the point. They don’t have to worry about
the day to day needs of their families. That’s what they count on you for. Let us not forget, however, that many
times when they’re away doing what they do their days start at oh dark thirty and go into the wee hours of the next
morning. Only to start again before the sun comes up. It’s not all room service and clean sheets. In my own marriage
my experience has been this. If you, as a warrior wife, can tolerate the schedule and demands of their careers, you stand
the possibility of living a wonderful life with a partner who values you for many things not the least of which is the peace
of mind you provide him knowing all is taken care of while he’s out doing the work of our country.
I consider
it my duty to my family but to my country as well. When his home life is sound, he’s most available for combat.
As with most things, there is another side of this story. Many women cannot tolerate this lifestyle. They thought they could
do it, maybe even dated through a deployment cycle or two. Then got married and wanted a husband who would be home. It’s
an easy trap to fall into to make your husband wrong for being away so much when you’re trying to have a life, a family
and perhaps even a career. This choice, to criticize your husband for being gone so much, has drastic consequences. After
all, you knew the deal going into this.
To steal a favorite line from a commanding officer I have come to respect,
“You buy the ticket. You get the show.” This is what you signed on to. The most powerful thing in our lives is
the conversation we have with ourselves about our lives. If you continually say that you are left holding the bag because
your husband is gone so much and you’re left with all the responsibility for your family and that he’s out playing
thenyou’re never going to make it.
Military Academy Graduates are Now "Right-Wing
Extremists" By Rich Carroll April 17, 2009
So says the Obama Administration, that
bastion of “extreme” left-wing people dedicated to the insolvency of our nation. Since the new Marxist regime
looks-down upon our armed forces personnel with such disdain, anticipate the academies to come-under the microscope of liberal
reporting; the softening-up phase just prior to closing them. Justification of course will be two pronged: Why
continue to “waste” taxpayer dollars that could go for such items as free abortions, AIDS medicine, or child care
for illegal invaders. But more importantly, why continue to fund military universities that turn-out anti-Marxist extremists.
“Extremists,”
in the case of the United States Air Force, Army and Naval academies, represent those sons and daughters who did all the right
stuff: They studied hard; tops in their classes, and achieved on the field of athletics. These young men and women
are the leaders, the doers, and excelled in citizenship and responsibility. Unlike the President, each applicant undergoes
a stringent FBI background check, including BIRTH CERTIFICATE, and verification of friends and associates with support documentation
as to their character and values. On average, one in seventeen who apply to these academies is accepted, and only then
by an official appointment from their Senator or Congressman, or a direct Superintendent’s appointment. The cream
of the crop, and not all of these will pass the tough four years, but alas, our best-of-the-best are now “extremists”
from a White House totally divorced from American history, heritage and traditional values.
William Ayers, the little
punk who set bombs at 12 Federal buildings including the Pentagon during his “Weatherman” years, member of the
Communist Party and bosom buddies with Barack Hussein Obama is not considered an “extremist,” nor are any of the
other communists or Muslims working in your White House.
Is anyone connecting the dots here?
This article is short.
I need to telephone my son, a West Point graduate and decorated Iraq War veteran and discuss his overnight status change to
“radical right wing extremist.”
MARINES and Two
Presidents
Arrr Matey's..."To
the Shores of Tripoli!" (United States Marines and those Pesky Muslim
Pirates) By Rich Carroll April 16, 2009
Harken back, mate’s, to the Barbary States of North Africa [Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli] (Libya)
when between the years 1500 to 1800 as many as 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved by those Muslim pirates. In 1784, the American brig Betsey, with a crew of 10, was captured by Moroccan Muslims while sailing with a cargo of salt
from Spain to Philadelphia. Soon after, pirates grabbed the Dauphin and the Maria on the high seas of the Atlantic and
took her crew captive. Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison “ We ought to begin a naval power, if we mean to
carry on our commerce. Can we begin it on a more honorable occasion or with a weaker foe?” Jefferson added
in his letter that John Paul Jones, a Revolutionary War hero, “with half a dozen frigates could subdue the slave kingdoms
of North Africa. The situation was becoming worse because the British had withdrawn their fleet after we declared our
independence. Secretary of State John Jay, our first liberal surrender monkey, decided to do what European powers did
and pay ransom to the Barbary sultans in exchange for safe passage as well as for the return of captured American slaves.
Arrr..you liberals take a lesson: Paying a fiend only results in him increasing his demands.
Within days of his 1801 inauguration, Thomas Jefferson ordered a naval and
military expedition to North Africa to put-down Muslim regimes involved in slavery and piracy, the first war in which the
U.S. flag was carried and planted overseas. This was also the first battle for our United States Marine Corps, whose
anthem boasts of action “to the shores of Tripoli.”
It's Not About the War.... It's About the Warrior
Dedicated to Our Wonderful United States
Military
"I had an appointment this morning at Walter Reed. How I wish these idiots voting away their freedom could see
what I saw. These young people are fantastic, one of them has more courage and love of country than a herd of Obama
worshiping fools. Does America deserve their sacrifice? Is America brushing it aside as if it does not matter?
These young people who give everything have been failed by politicians and Americans voting away what they have earned and
given all Americans. I weep for my country." Air Force Veteran
Looney Leftist Whitehouse Considers Veterans "Terrorist
Threats" All Veterans: Veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists. President Obama's Civilian
National Security Force is concerned that rightwing extremists (hereafter referred to as "wingnuts") either are
veterans or will attempt to recruit veterans.
The Lying and Deception Continue... Obama's "Staged" visit with Troops in Iraq (how stupid does he think we are?)
“Cheered wildly by U.S. troops,” begins Jennifer Democratic Operative Loven’s AP report on Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday.
Quite
a contrast to the silent treatment Marines gave Obama at his Camp LeJeune speech in late February. Just how did Obama manage to fix
that little problem?
According to a sergeant in Iraq :
We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands
were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up. [Via
Macsmind.]
As supporting evidence for the digital-cameras part of the story,
the sergeant (or Mac, can’t tell which), suggests that the identical cameras can be verified in the AP photos. Looks right:
Charles Dharapak/associated press
So will the press cover this
evidence of a staged and unrepresentative show of military affection for our anti-military president? The reporters were there. Did they actually see the troops being sorted by whether they voted for
Obama, which the sergeant describes as happening on the spot?
Stephen Hurst’s AP report is upfront about Obama’s fervent desire for a hero’s welcome:
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama went for the defining television shot by capping his first extended
foreign tour with a surprise visit to Iraq.
He got it – pictures of hundreds
of U.S. troops cheering wildly as he told them it was time for the Iraqis to take charge of their own future.
OATH KEEPERS...Orders We Will Not
Fully Obey
April 07, 2009
NAUSEATING: Obama Avoided Normandy Cemetery To Avoid Offending Brits, Germans
Do you suppose Obama could have visited at least one American war dead cemetery while in France,
especially since this is his first trip there as President? I guess it doesn't fit in well with his agenda of apologizing
for American "arrogance."
But it's even worse than my friend suggested. In fact, Barack Hussein
Obama was urged by French President Nicholas Sarkozy to visit the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, where American
soldiers who gave their lives in WWII's invasion at Normandy are buried. But he declined so as not to offend Germany and Britain. HUH?
Yes, he's now so worried what the walking-dead Europeans think that an American President won't
visit the graves of those who gave their lives for America (and, I might add, for Germany and Britain--without us, they might
not be here).
Obama Skips Normandy Visit So He Won't Offend Germans, Brits
White House officials travelled
to France at the start of March to discuss a visit by Mr Obama to Omaha Beach, the site of the American Cemetery, established
in 1944 just after D-Day and where 9,387 American personnel are buried. Among them is Theodore Roosevelt Jr the eldest son
of the 26th US President.
French officials and senior American military officers walked with White House staff through
the cemetery discussing how the two presidents might follow the same route. But even before their trip, the White House had
decided that Mr Obama would not travel there this week.
"It wasn't going to happen," said an American
official in Washington. "We went through the motions to placate President Sarkozy but giving special treatment to France
was not on our agenda.
"During this trip, we wanted to maintain a balance between the British, German and France".
A White House spokesman in London declined to comment. Last month, White House officials briefed that a Normandy visit had
been considered but it had not been logistically possible. . . .
According to French reports, Mr Obama was to visit
the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-mer, just north of Omaha Beach. The pair were apparently to
have dined at the nearby chateau de Benouville in Caen.
The White House rejected the offer.
Yes,
this is the new "symmetry" of the Obama administration. Tit-for-tat bean counting silliness. If you visit the American
war dead in France, then you are somehow showing favoritism against Germany and Britain. But if you visit the queen and a
school in Britain, you aren't showing favoritism? The logic isn't there.
And please don't tell me about
how the Prez is going back to France, this summer, for the 65th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. There is never an inappropriate
time for an American President to visit the graves of those who gave their lives so we could be free.
A cemetery visit
should have been among the visits in Europe.
If the Obamas had time for that, they certainly had time for our fallen troops.
By the way, you know
who else Obama might offend in a visit to the Normandy American Cemetery?
Well, there are lots of crosses and a number
of Jewish stars marking the graves of those who died there. But guess what there aren't a lot of? Islamic crescents. In
fact, there may not be any at all.
Dedicated to America's Vietnam Veterans
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=323651362426920 Battlefield Injustice By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted
Friday, April 03, 2009 4:20 PM PT War On Terror: A federal court says that even those held in Afghanistan must also be tried in
American courts. Why not? After all, if there is no global war on terror, how can anybody be prisoners of that war? Although
the "war on terror" no longer exists, we still have the "overseas contingency operation" in Afghanistan.
They are still shooting at us and we are still shooting at them. We are still capturing and holding what used to
be called enemy combatants or even that more archaic term — prisoners of war. Now a federal judge
has ruled that where detainees are captured or held, not what they were trying to do, namely kill Americans, is paramount.
Whatever the proper term for them is now, U.S. District Judge John Bates decided Thursday that those not captured in
Afghanistan but being held there are endowed, like their Gitmo counterparts, with the same inalienable rights as the American
citizens they were sworn to kill. That includes the right to challenge their incarceration in American courts. After the Supreme Court ruled last year that Guantanamo detainees had the legal right to challenge their detentions
in U.S. courts, four detainees captured outside Afghanistan being held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan thought they
had a get-out-of-jail-free card. After that ruling, petitions were filed on their behalf in a U.S. district court. The Obama
administration took the position that Bagram Air Force Base, where some 600 jihadists are currently held, differed from Gitmo
in that Bagram is located in an active war zone even if Gitmo is technically U.S. territory where the U.S. Constitution holds
sway. That was when the war on terror was still called a war. Judge Bates rejected this when he ruled that non-Afghan
detainees captured outside that country and moved to Bagram should also have access to U.S. courts to prevent the U.S. from
being able to "move detainees physically beyond the reach of the Constitution and detain them indefinitely." Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., rightly called the decision "dangerous and naive," and said it puts troops in
harm's way for judges to micromanage distant wars. "Using this logic, in World War II it would not have
allowed us to capture Nazi operatives anywhere but in Germany," Graham said. Ironically, at a time when foreign
laws and treaties seem to be finding their way into U.S. court rulings, both the Supreme Court ruling and Judge Bates'
ruling seem to fly in the face of Article 84 of the Geneva Conventions, which says prisoners of any stripe captured in a war
shall not get tried in civil courts. In short, we're in violation of the Geneva Conventions here. Bates'
ruling affects only three of the four who challenged their detention at Bagram. He reserved judgment on Haji Wazir because
he is an Afghan citizen. The other three are from outside Afghanistan. Fadi al Magaleh and Amin al Bakri
are from Yemen. Redha al-Najar is from Tunisia. All say they were captured outside Afghanistan. Bates argued that it
is "one thing to detain those captured on a surrounding battlefield at a place like Bagram" but that it "is
quite another to apprehend people in foreign countries — far from any Afghan battlefield — and then bring them
to a theatre of war, where the Constitution arguably may not reach." But how can there be a battlefield
if there is no war? "Overseas contingency operations," like war, are hell. They are not crime scenes where U.S.
troops should be required to read their opponents their rights, take witness testimony, gather evidence and remember where
they were on a particular afternoon. We would ask, what part of "global war on terror" does Judge Bates not
understand? The entire globe is an active theater of war, and where prisoners are captured or held makes no difference.
But this is the nonsense you get when an administration plays word games after actively opposing the military tribunals where
these matters should be settled.
OUTRAGE!! Liberal Legal System Punishing
our FINEST for doing their job.
Eric Holder: You like shooting your
mouth off about "cowards," help save a HERO and get involved in this. You wangled a pardon for thief Marc
Rich, you can save a brave American soldier. Show the rest of us you are FOR America first.
GOVERNMENT WITHHOLDS EVIDENCE; SOLDIER GOES TO PRISON
FOR 25 YEARS FOR SHOOTING AL QAEDA OPERATIVE
On March 20th, 2009, 1st Lieutenant Michael
Behenna was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing a known Al Qaeda operative while serving in Iraq. The “victim”,
Ali Mansur, was known to be a member of an Al Qaeda cell operating in the lieutenant’s area of operation, and was suspected
to have organized an attack on Lt. Behenna’s platoon in April 2008 which killed two U.S. soldiers and injured two more.
Army intelligence ordered the release of Mansur and Lt. Behenna was ordered to return the terrorist to his home.
During the return of Mansur, Lt. Behenna again questioned the Al Qaeda member
for information about other members of the terrorist cell, and financial supporters. During this interrogation, Mansur attacked
Lt. Behenna, who killed the terrorist in self-defense. The government subsequently prosecuted Lt. Behenna for premeditated
murder.
Not only is this a miscarriage of justice
on the behalf of Lt. Behenna, who was acting to prevent further loss of life in his platoon, it is demoralizing to the U.S.
troops who continue to fight on behalf of the freedom and security of our nation. Whether it is U.S. border patrol agents,
members of the armed forces, or FBI agents, no individual who is serving on the frontlines in the War on Terror should be
so blatantly mistreated.
We urgently need your help
to correct this terrible wrong against a loyal and faithful soldier. Please contact your congressman and ask them to intervene
on behalf of 1LT Behenna. Below is a brief recap of the relevant aspects of Lt. Behenna’s case.
September
2007:1st Lieutenant Michael Behenna deployed to Iraq for his first combat experience
April
21, 2008:Lt. Behenna’s platoon was attacked by Al Qaeda operatives.The attack resulted in
death of two of Lt. Behenna’s platoon members, two Iraqi citizens, and wounded two additional soldiers under Lt. Behenna’s
command.
May 5, 2008:Known terrorist Ali Mansur was detained at his home for suspected
involvement in the attack on Lt. Behenna’s platoon
May 16, 2008:Army Intelligence
orders the release of Mansur
Lt. Behenna, who lost two members of his platoon just weeks earlier, was
ordered to transport Mansur back to his home
Lt. Behenna attempts a final interrogation of Mansur prior
to his release
During the interrogation, Behenna is attacked by Mansur and is forced to defend himself.During the altercation, the terrorist is killed.
Lt. Behenna failed to properly report the incident
July 2008:The U.S. Army charges Lt. Behenna with premeditated murder for the death of Al Qaeda
operative and terrorist Ali Mansur.
February 23, 2009:Lt. Behenna’s
trial begins
Government and defense experts agree on the trajectory of the bullets killing Mansur
Prosecution expert Dr. Herbert MacDonnell initiated contact with defense attorneys explaining his agreement
with the testimony of Lt. Behenna and his presentation to prosecutors supporting Lt. Behenna’s version of events.
Dr. MacDonnell is not called to testify in the case
Jack Zimmermann, defense counsel,
asks prosecutors if they have any exculpatory evidence that should be provided to the defense (referring to Dr. MacDonnell’s
demonstration).Prosecutors deny having any such evidence.
Prosecutors withholding of this
evidence allowed them to argue that Lt. Behenna executed Ali Mansur while seated when the forensic experts, including Dr.
MacDonnell, agree that Ali was standing with his arms outstretched when shot
Lt. Behenna is convicted
of unpremeditated murder and assault.
Dr. MacDonnell contacts prosecution requesting that the information
provided in his demonstration be given to the defense.
Prosecutors provide such information after a
verdict was rendered, but prior to sentencing.
At the request of the presiding judge, Dr. MacDonnell
provides his information to the court via telephone
The judge orders both sides in the case to file
briefs relating to a possible mistrial
After reading the briefs the judge set an additional hearing
and ordered additional briefs, including one from the defense requesting a new trial.
On March 20, the
judge denied defense motions to declare a mistrial and to order a new trial
Lt. Behenna’s attorneys
are appealing the verdict
Lt. Behenna is currently serving a 25-year sentence
1st Lieutenant Michael Behenna was an excellent officer. He received his call
to serve his country while attending the University of Central Oklahoma. He is from a family of public servants, his mother
being an Assistant United States Attorney and his father a retired Special Agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
He has served the Army and the United States with honor and dignity. To sacrifice the life of this Oklahoma soldier over the
death of a known terrorist, is a breech of faith with all who are serving our country.
Special
Announcement
Release No. 04-01-09
April
3, 2009
Airman missing from Vietnam War is identified
WASHINGTON (AFRNS) -- The remains of a U.S. Airman, missing in action
from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be buried with full military honors, said officials from the Department
of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office.
Lt. Col. Earl P. Hopper Jr., from Phoenix, will be buried today at the
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix.
On Jan. 10, 1968, Colonel Hopper and Capt. Keith Hall were flying
an F-4D Phantom near Hanoi, North Vietnam, as part of a four-ship MiG combat air patrol. Before they reached the target,
an enemy surface-to-air missile exploded slightly below their aircraft. Captain Hall radioed that he and Colonel Hopper were
ejecting. He told Colonel Hopper to eject, but when he heard no response, he repeated "Earl get out!" Colonel
Hopper replied, "I've pulled on it and it [the ejection seat] did not go," followed by "you go!" Captain
Hall then pulled on his primary ejection handle but it failed to initiate, forcing him to use the alternate. Captain
Hall was captured and held as a prisoner of war until 1973, but Colonel Hopper was unable to get out of the aircraft.
Between
1993 and 1998, officials from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command conducted three joint investigations and five excavations
at the crash site in Son La Province, west of Hanoi. The team interviewed four informants who had knowledge of the site.
The excavations recovered numerous skeletal fragments and crew-related items which were ultimately used in the forensic
identification process.
Among other forensic tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists used extensive dental
comparisons in the identification of the remains.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission
to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169/1420. (Courtesy of DOD)
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