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Obama says 'no' to pensions for WW II Alaska guards
MClatchy ^ | 9/26/09 | Erika Bolsted

Posted on 09/26/2009 9:20:16 PM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON -- In a strongly worded message to Congress outlining its priorities for a military spending bill, the Obama administration today said it disapproved of including money for pensions for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard.

The Guardsmen are among those assigned to protect Alaska from the Japanese during World War II.

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1 posted on 09/26/2009 9:20:16 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 09/26/2009 9:20:44 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Of course Obama has no love for our Vets and especially no love for any vets from Alaska


3 posted on 09/26/2009 9:21:17 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Nachum

Bump


4 posted on 09/26/2009 9:22:01 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Nachum

Follows along administration “Obamacare” to kill the elderly.


5 posted on 09/26/2009 9:22:05 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Obama is scum - must be brought down - and soon .


6 posted on 09/26/2009 9:22:39 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: sushiman

The sooner the better. I don’t know if we can make it to 2012 the way he is going


7 posted on 09/26/2009 9:23:05 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Nachum

Three strikes against them: vets, from Alaska, elderly.


8 posted on 09/26/2009 9:23:16 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: Nachum

To paraphrase Kanye West: “0bama hates old people!”


9 posted on 09/26/2009 9:24:19 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative (A Blue Dog Democrat is an oxyMoron!)
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To: BusterBear

You nailed it!!!


10 posted on 09/26/2009 9:25:06 PM PDT by prophetic (0Bama = 1 illegal president = 32 illegal, unconstitutional & unnecessary CZARS to do his job!!)
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To: Nachum

But we can give money to Qaddafi’s daughters charities among other wasted garbage organizations Barry and Congress have given taxpayer money away to........ =.=


11 posted on 09/26/2009 9:25:23 PM PDT by cranked
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To: sushiman

Can’t happen soon enough.

As much as I hate to say it I think we need the military to remove this a**clown physically from our house and the office.

They did a great job removing that nutcase in Honduras, a move Zero opposed, I think it’s time for the same here. Before he turns this country into a banana republic.


12 posted on 09/26/2009 9:26:42 PM PDT by Eagles2003
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To: Nachum

a “strongly worded message” - to prohibit support for 26 WWII vets. This is scummy and shameful.


13 posted on 09/26/2009 9:26:45 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: sushiman
"Obama is scum - must be brought down - and soon ."

A sweep in the congress in 2010 can make him a lame duck after only two years and set the stage for his removal.

Two problems;
1. Regardless of how bad congress' ratings are people will vote the same scum back in and...
2. Where will we find a presidential candidate with the courage to reverse Omaba legislation accomplished during his short reign of terror?

14 posted on 09/26/2009 9:26:48 PM PDT by Baynative (America is celebrating it's acceptance of mediocrity.)
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To: Nachum
Obama says 'no' to pensions for WW II Alaska guards

As$hole. He can give Billions to his Islamic brothers, but not a cent for those that were willing to protect us from our enemies.

15 posted on 09/26/2009 9:26:56 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Nachum

“An estimated 300 members are still living from the original 6,600-member unit formed in 1942 to protect Alaska, then a territory, from attack. The 26 men have enough other military service to reach the 20-year minimum for retirement pay but would lose it if the Territorial Guard service doesn’t count.”

These are native Alaskans. Sorta like the Navajo Code Talkers. These 26 gentlemen defended and prevented the Japanese from advancing up the Aleutians.


16 posted on 09/26/2009 9:27:43 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Nachum

Birth certificate or no, Obama is un-American.


17 posted on 09/26/2009 9:29:44 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Nachum

Just transfer the $$$ from the Libya projects to the vets. Don’t say we can’t afford it.


18 posted on 09/26/2009 9:30:49 PM PDT by freedom4me (Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Amos 5:15)
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To: Nachum

Un-f’n-believable


19 posted on 09/26/2009 9:31:08 PM PDT by wastedyears (The best aid we could ever give Africa would be thousands of rifles to throw out their own dictators)
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To: Nachum

Take it out of the stimulus money, Zero. You know, the money that Joe Biden is out there pissing away.

If they were from Hawaii, the question would be: how soon can we have the photo op?

This is a slap in the face to Alaskans.

Time for Sarah to author a Facebook message showing what a small man Zero really is.


20 posted on 09/26/2009 9:32:05 PM PDT by exit82 (Sarah Palin is President No. 45. Get behind her, GOP, or get out of the way.)
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To: Nachum

If they where official apologists or marxist professors he might respect them.


21 posted on 09/26/2009 9:33:13 PM PDT by omega4179 (We must be the change.)
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To: Nachum
A veteran would have to be wearing kneepads and evidence of having given Obama sex to approve of him now.
22 posted on 09/26/2009 9:33:14 PM PDT by vetvetdoug (FUBO....a fashion statement for Conservatives.)
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To: Baynative

I don’t necessarily see a problem with your logic. I would remind you that we flipped Congress in 1994 though, and it will happen again.

Obama doesn’t seem to have the smarts to figure out he is digging his own political grave here. He’s going to keep pushing radical top heavy governance to the point that the populace is going to give him the Carter treatment.

Twenty-ten looms large, because the message is going to be loud and clear. I still maintain that even California might surprise some people before it’s all over.

Folks are very angry in the state, and if the right Conservative comes along, they may take it in a landslide.


23 posted on 09/26/2009 9:33:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Ded Kennedy, Stealing from the middle class for nearly 40 years to end poverty.)
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To: wastedyears

Not a shock, Obama doesn’t value our military or the elderly, which in his mind, is anyone over the age of 45(according to Ezekial Emmanuel, they are considered useless after that age). These guys have 3 strikes against them, they are elderly, they are in the military, and they are from Alaska. Usually I don’t believe a word out of Globe Magazine, but their front cover has an interesting article about how Obama has a 25 name enemy list, and guess who is in that list, Sarah Palin. So yeah, anything Alaska related Obama wants destroyed


24 posted on 09/26/2009 9:33:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Nachum
They must be white people.
25 posted on 09/26/2009 9:34:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, but what you can do for the Kennedys.)
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To: advance_copy

Thats what I had been saying. What matters is his lack of American identity not his birthplace. The money he wastes is 10 million times what the men need.


26 posted on 09/26/2009 9:35:40 PM PDT by omega4179 (We must be the change.)
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To: Nachum
Those elderly Alaskan Guardsmen are imperialist war mongers?

And who does the prsident think he is? King of America? Let him veto the bill that contains the provision instead of defining what the people must do by pre-emptive fiat.

Obama is losing it. We are definitely over the target.Open the bomb bay doors and let the Obama Junta have it!

I love to see fascists scurrying around looking for cover in the morning.

Billions for ACORN but nothing for 26 old soldiers who served their nation with honor?

Obama just lost hundreds of thousands of votes, I love it when that happens!

27 posted on 09/26/2009 9:36:28 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: Eagles2003

But Zelaya was removed by Congress, “using” the military that’s why it wasn’t a coup. The Honduras Congress was acting within their Constituition.


28 posted on 09/26/2009 9:37:42 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Nachum; alpha-8-25-02; Kitty Mittens; Hiskid; Irish Rose; Faith
BOOKMARK

Prayers needed for America Heroes, Alaskan Veterans from WWII denied
pension by Commander in Chief, obama!

29 posted on 09/26/2009 9:37:48 PM PDT by tajgirvan (Please Pray for An Outpouring Of God's Holy Spirit ! Joel 2: 28)
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To: Nachum; Homer_J_Simpson

Should we ping the +/- 70 years ago list?


30 posted on 09/26/2009 9:38:33 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (My tagline is an honor student at Free Republic Elementary School.)
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To: Baynative

You are assuming we will be able to vote in 2010.

Al that has to happen is an “emergency” be declared and all elections are halted.

Remember some people said that W would do that?


31 posted on 09/26/2009 9:39:19 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

They were crack troops also, they were the only ones who could actually operate in Alaska and the Aleutians without major difficulties with the weather.


32 posted on 09/26/2009 9:39:27 PM PDT by calex59 (FUBO, we want our constitution back and we intend to get it!)
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To: Shadowstrike

Al = All


33 posted on 09/26/2009 9:39:57 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Candor7
Bonus Army, anyone?

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief4.htm

34 posted on 09/26/2009 9:40:50 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
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To: CougarGA7

Definately!


35 posted on 09/26/2009 9:41:53 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: tajgirvan

If they had been from HI, instead of AK, they might have got soemthing. Maybe they can petition those two liberal senators from AK.


36 posted on 09/26/2009 9:42:53 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Nachum

Does obama even know that the Japanese invaded Alaska and killed 1,481 Americans there? The enemy lost 4,350. I guess he doesn’t consider the defenders of Alaska important because it wasn’t one of the 57 states yet.


37 posted on 09/26/2009 9:43:36 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Eagles2003

Hopefully Leo will hit paydirt in HI or Orly/Kreep with Judge Carter. If Leo gets the BC then a massive class action by members of the military should be filed against the usurper. If SOCTUS refuses then based on the evidence from HI or Orly the Islamo-marxist needs to be evicted.


38 posted on 09/26/2009 9:44:04 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Candor7

These 26 guys left, Inuit, and Aleut, Alaskans, fought for control of the the Aleutian chain of islands.

With all the frickin bailouts, Obama has finally run out of my money.


39 posted on 09/26/2009 9:44:12 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: sushiman

People in MN and elsewhere really believe in Obama. You are out of the loop. People like, trust, and admire him. Now that doesn’t mean the people are intelligent and right, but that’s the American people, “that’s the way it is”, as Uncle Walter proclaimed.


40 posted on 09/26/2009 9:44:13 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: calex59

They were.


41 posted on 09/26/2009 9:45:12 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Shadowstrike

I bet Obama couldn’t pass the most basic eighth grade quiz on World War II, not could his delighted supporters.


42 posted on 09/26/2009 9:45:15 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Nachum

I strongly suspect that Obama will rue the multiple times he’s dissed and insulted the vets of this country.

When the balloon goes up — and that could happen any day at this rate — with the exception of some of the black troopers who, sadly, will be more motivated by race than a desire to save the nation, the bulk of those folks will be on the right side of the barricades.

We COULD see a 7 days in May scenario come down.


43 posted on 09/26/2009 9:46:12 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: Nachum

So many negative terms fail when it comes to describing this pretender.

He is a national embarrassment.


44 posted on 09/26/2009 9:46:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Ded Kennedy, Stealing from the middle class for nearly 40 years to end poverty.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I think we all know why this decision was made.

Funny you mention the Globe and the Obama enemies list. I saw that, too. Sarah was #4, with Glenn Beck on top, Larry Sinclair at #2 and I think either Hannity or O’Reilly at #3.

Of course last week they said that Bush was suicidal and that Laura had left him over his cheating on her with Condi Rice.

How about some of his enemies team up. Glenn can fly out to Alaska. Apparently he’s already in Seattle today so he’s fairly close. He can do a show with Sarah, Sen Murkowsi, Sean Parnell would probably show up, even Begich seems to be behind this although I doubt he’d show. If Glenn doesn’t want to, I’d think Greta would probably fly out. As long as she gets another ride on the snow machine.

But they can get all or most of the 26 guardsmen on and demand action. Obama will cave. It’s not really all that much money, but it would be a good thing to do and would be very good pr. It would even tie in with the health care debate and the elderly. Once again, Obama cutting costs at the expense of the elderly. If he won’t even step up for men who defended this nation from the original Axis how do we expect him to step up for anyone else.

This could be an issue like how Reagan used the Panama Canal as his pet issue. Call him out on abandoning veterans.


45 posted on 09/26/2009 9:46:54 PM PDT by jeltz25
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To: Nachum

What a worthless vile pile of garbage he is.


46 posted on 09/26/2009 9:47:11 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: Eagles2003

I think it is a possibility.


47 posted on 09/26/2009 9:47:34 PM PDT by unkus
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To: advance_copy

Birth certificate or no, Obama is un-American.
_________________________

He’s one Evil sonovabitch!


48 posted on 09/26/2009 9:48:44 PM PDT by unkus
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To: cranked

What has happened to the America we love.

Obummer’s AmeriKa is not a good place to be.


49 posted on 09/26/2009 9:50:01 PM PDT by ncfool (Cash for Clunkers - A big failure and Obama and rats want us to trust them with our healthcare!)
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To: Theodore R.
which eighth grade quiz? The one we took, or the ‘new and improved’ version which has nothing to do with facts? :)
50 posted on 09/26/2009 9:50:38 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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