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Leave no man behind: Why is Team Obama unable to bring home Marine held in Mexico?
FoxNews.com ^ | May 26, 2014 | Tamara Holder

Posted on 05/26/2014 10:08:48 AM PDT by moonshinner_09

This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day in honor of our American servicemen and women who have sacrificed their lives defending us both at home and abroad. Many of our troops enlist in the military upon adulthood and have served in wars before their classmates have even graduated from college. These men and women are true American heroes and we must protect them just as well as they protect us.

Unfortunately, despite President Obama’s Memorial Day proclamation that we shall “never forget” the sacrifices of our soldiers, he and Secretary of State John Kerry have forgotten about a living American hero in dire need rescue: U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi.

Tahmooressi, only 25-years-old, is currently jailed in Tijuana, Mexico, after he accidentally drove across the border with three legally owned guns.

During the four years he served in the Marines, he did two tours in Afghanistan. While on the battlefield, he saved eight Marines from the Taliban, and in a separate incident he saved a Marine from bleeding to death after he stepped on an IED and lost his legs. Tahmooressi also suffered a concussion when his vehicle hit an IED.

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; kerry; marine; marines; mex; newscurrentevents; vet
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To: CatherineofAragon

...or eat into the time he devotes to golf and butt sex.


21 posted on 05/26/2014 10:44:41 AM PDT by twister881
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To: twister881

That is sickeningly true.


22 posted on 05/26/2014 10:48:26 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: CatherineofAragon

You’re absolutely right.

Plus that, Mexico is thrilled to EXPORT their thugs, drugs, rapists, poor, unskilled, unschooled, slovenly and everyone else to the idiot and open border USA, while playing oh so strict with our citizen US Marine who made an honest mistake at the border, with which I am familiar, being a native of San Diego. I don’t go near that damn area.

Dear God, please hear our prayers for this dearest young man.


23 posted on 05/26/2014 11:03:54 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: All; anyone

Does anyone know how many US Citizens are serving time in Mexico prisons/jails?
I’ve searched the net but don’t find any current data. I’ve found numbers
over 600 as being incarcerated years ago. I’d guess that number is higher today.


24 posted on 05/26/2014 11:04:54 AM PDT by deport
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To: moonshinner_09

He should tell the Marines to go get their man.

Start out nice with about a dozen armored vehicles and if they are fired upon, call for anything and everything required to get the job done.


25 posted on 05/26/2014 11:05:55 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: moonshinner_09

All Obama has to do is pick up the phone and that kid comes home. He just won’t do it. You would think that a POS loser with a 45% approval rating would be eager to do something the public could applaud him for.


26 posted on 05/26/2014 11:15:01 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Surprising article from a lib Obama sychophant.


27 posted on 05/26/2014 11:40:58 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: moonshinner_09

This is a great question.

It is similar to another question - why is Obama not able influence/coerce the government of Sudan to assist in freeing the captive Christian woman who is over 8 months pregnant, and charged with adultery because she married a Christian man (she’s a Christian but the Muslims claim she is a Muslim because her deadbeat father was a Muslim) - but he abandoned her Christian mother when the girl was 5 years old.

The answer is similar - he is lazy, and not engaged. Since he does not watch Fox News, perhaps that is why he is ignorant of both of these cases!

What a dork. It reminds me of a joke that I copied off of this blog, I believe, about 3-4 years ago.

Post Turtle.

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year-old rancher, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and is role as our President. The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Obama is a “Post Turtle.”

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was. The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle’.

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, he’s elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb #$%$ put him up there to begin with.”


28 posted on 05/26/2014 11:43:42 AM PDT by Gumdrop (~)
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To: BuffaloJack
Think of all of the creativity Obama has used to try to punish Putin, but nothing for a soldier held in a Mexican jail.

Best suggestions yesterday (1) the major road into Mexico could've been closed until he's released (2) remittances from US sources to Mexican banks could've been halted (3)jail 100 illegals from Mexico for every hour he's in captivity (4)the ambassador to Mexico with a fully armed Marine guard should walk up to that jail and demand his release

The point of these suggestions? It's just not hard for the US to find things that hurt Mexico more than they hurt us. Same thing with the Christian woman with a US citizen husband in Sudan....just DO IT!!

I'm beyond disgust with our non-government in DC

29 posted on 05/26/2014 11:47:55 AM PDT by grania
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To: onyx

AMEN to all of your post.

Onyx, I am so glad to see you back, my friend. You have no idea. God bless and love you!


30 posted on 05/26/2014 11:58:58 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Diogenesis
HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT AMERICANS.

HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT STRAIGHT WHITE MALE AMERICAN MARINES

31 posted on 05/26/2014 12:19:18 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: BuffaloJack

Too bad Charles Bronson (BREAKOUT) is not available.


32 posted on 05/26/2014 12:45:07 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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BIG ERR IN IDENTIFYING HIM AS A MARINE. SURELY OCAMA WOULD HAVE ACTED IMMEIATELY HAD HE BEEN CALL A LIBERAL, A SOCIALIST OR A MUSLIM. ESPECIALLY THE LATTER!


33 posted on 05/26/2014 12:57:37 PM PDT by chuckmex (WHO OBAMA WOUL ACT FOR)
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To: chuckmex

If it was an illegal alien he would have been flown first class by THE FOREIGNERS REGIME back to the U.S.


34 posted on 05/26/2014 1:03:45 PM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Thank you so much, from my heart, which is aching, but starting to heal, because of all of you.
FR is my home and I need to be here.
God bless you, sweet, beautiful girlfriend.


35 posted on 05/26/2014 1:14:46 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx; CatherineofAragon

Dear onyx,

Spoken from the heart and with, as you remind us, true knowledge of the “facts on the ground” in your original home area.

Where is justice and truth??

It has “fallen from the public square” as the OT portrayed in those days.

God bless, and like Catherine wrote, it’s such a good thing that you’re here...


36 posted on 05/26/2014 2:18:28 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...hmold to the TRUTH; speak without fear." (Glenn Beck))
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To: txrangerette; CatherineofAragon

((((txrangerette))))

Thank you so much, from my heart for your kind and sincere words to me.

Yes, just like the Old Testament portrayed.

I am deeply concerned for this wonderful, honest, young U.S. Marine’s safety and welfare. Those Mexican border prisons are unhealthy and dangerous. He has to be so scared.

It’s a crime that this government of ours has not demanded his immediate release.

The Mexican border into our country should have been sealed decades ago, IMHO.

God bless and keep you.


37 posted on 05/26/2014 2:26:09 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

:)


38 posted on 05/26/2014 2:28:24 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...hmold to the TRUTH; speak without fear." (Glenn Beck))
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To: moonshinner_09

Because he doesn’t know about it yet...CNN and MSNBC haven’t picked up the story...so how’s he gonna’ know? He gets his “intelligence” from the media after all...and he only watches the “lein forward” crowd (No, that’s not a typo).


39 posted on 05/26/2014 4:35:59 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: onyx; txrangerette

I think you’re smart to be here & involved in the Freepathon. I know from my mother’s experience that not having enough to occupy you at such a time is not good at all. I believe getting back to a routine will help.

That’s not to minimize your grief....I know Dr. O was your love and soulmate. He’s waiting for you. In the meantime, always know my mailbox is open to you anytime.

Love you and God bless you.


40 posted on 05/26/2014 5:33:14 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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