Posted on 08/29/2012 9:56:01 AM PDT by Hojczyk
On August 6, 2011, 30 US service members killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter they were being transported in crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan. It was the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. 17 members of the elite Navy SEALs were killed in the crash.
Yesterday, Karen and Billy Vaughn, parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn, spoke at the Defending the Defenders forum sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots outside the RNC Convention in Tampa. Karen brought a copy of the form letter they were sent following their sons death.
Its a form letter.
It was signed by an electric pen.
Thats not all. Karen Vaughn reached out to the parents of the other SEALs killed in that crash. Theyre letters were all the same. Form letters signed by an electric pen.
After the deadliest single loss of US forces in Afghanistan, Barack Obama sent out form letters to the parents.
Late for another golf outing?
There is not a human being on this earth for whom I have less contempt than the Cretin-in-Chief, the Obamadork, the “thing” without a brain.
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Is this the incident where the admininstration claimed to have tracked down and killed the taliwacker who shot the helicopter down?
we still have troops in Afghanistan? Funny...you wouldn’t know it from the media, body count people, protestors, etc.
No, the SOB probably doesnt care.
Did he ask for a $3 donation and have his picture on it?
Also, how many times did he use the words, I, me, my, mine...?
A class act.
The thing is a reptile, no emotion, no sensitivity, and no introspection.
I have despised him now for going on three years, I just hated him before.
Not much else to say about it.
America’s Armed Forces stand for the power and exceptionalism of the USA.
obama hates America’s power and exceptionalism vis a vis any other God-forsaken country.
obama hates America’s Armed Forces.
osama is gone and obama will be defeated.
we still have troops in Afghanistan? Funny...you wouldnt know it from the media, body count people, protestors, etc.
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just imagine if a REpublican was in the White House.. the uproar..
if you’d like to register a complaint, please do so on a triplicate form and send the Pink copy to Organizing FoR Obama, the Brown copy to La Raza and the GReen copy to the NRDC.. They’ll get back to you when hell freezes over.
His contempt for the armed forces is appalling.
Did Bush sit down and write a personal letter to the families of every soldier who was killed in Iraq or Afghanistan? How about Nixon during the Vietnam War? Or Truman and Eisenhower during the Korean War. Or FDR during WWII.
Just wow.
And people want to give this monster four more years out of their little temper tantrums?
Just happened to notice the interesting "sb" duality involved in those names.
It fits, literally and figuratively.
Oh, oh...so let’s send Mooch and Dr. Jill out to pump up the troops, wrap themselves in the flag...
let’s take their voting rights away, diminish their medical benefits, infiltrate the military with gays...I could go on.
I weep.......
Remember the scene in “Saving Private Ryan”? Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. General George Marshall goes to his desk and pulls out the letter President Lincoln wrote to the mother (Mrs. Bixby) that had lost her five sons. I’m aware there’s reason to believe they were not all killed during the war but the fact that the President thought they were and took the time to personnaly write (and sign) is the difference between a Statesman/Leader and a hack.
Wouldn’t surprise me if he referred to them as corpse-men in the letter.
We need Karen Vaughn and her letter on the stage, front and center at the RNC convention in Tampa...
you know it’ll never happen.
If there is any truth to this then a letter personally signed by the president would have been the least he could do.
Yeah, my thought too. Either late for golf or had to wash his hair...
Probably doing coke, pot, and chooms, and screwing his body man Reggie Love to actually do something decent.
POTUS should hand sign ALL of these.
Only a fool has ever thought obama was a leader .
EXCLUSIVE: Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately Met with thousands of war injured, kin out of spotlight
Joseph Curl (Contact) and John Solomon (Contact) Monday, December 22, 2008
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/22/bush-cheney-comforted-troops-privately/
EXCLUSIVE:
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip - with reporters in tow - to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.
But the size and scope of Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
"People say, 'Why would you do that?'" the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. "And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish."
Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
"I lean on the Almighty and Laura," Mr. Bush said in the interview. "She has been very reassuring, very calming."
Mr. Bush also has met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, according to White House spokesman Carlton Carroll. Many of those meetings were outside the presence of the news media at the White House or at private sessions during official travel stops, officials said.
The first lady said those private visits, many of which she also attended, took a heavy emotional toll, not just on the president, but on her as well.
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So, more than likely, Barry the Kenyan Guy never even saw these “letters” and doesn’t even know they were sent. Nice.
By less than a minute... good work FRiend!
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Back at cha, Slim. Thanks for the link.
Somebody go find the letters signed by the President following the death of these heroes on 28 Jun 2005 during Operation Red Wing. I’ll bet you a beer they were personally signed by President Bush:
Task Force 160, US Army killed were:
Staff Sgt. Shamus O. Goare
Chief Warrant Officer Corey J. Goodnature
Sgt. Kip A. Jacoby
Sgt. 1st Class Marcus V. Muralles
Master Sgt James W. Ponder III
Maj. Stephen C. Reich
Sgt. 1st Class Michael L. Russell
Chief Warrant Officer Chris J. Scherkenbach
The SEALS killed were:
Lieutenant Michael Murphy
Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny P. Dietz
Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson
Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan
Senior Chief Petty Officer Daniel R. Healy
Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen
Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffery A. Lucas
Lt. Michael M. McGreevy, Jr.
Petty Officer 2nd Class James Suh
Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric S. Patton
Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey S. Taylor
There.... fixed it.
Monday, December 22, 2008
EXCLUSIVE:Bush, Cheney comfort troops privately
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip - with reporters in tow - to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.
But the size and scope of Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
"People say, 'Why would you do that?'" the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. "And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish."
Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
"I lean on the Almighty and Laura," Mr. Bush said in the interview. "She has been very reassuring, very calming."
Mr. Bush also has met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, according to White House spokesman Carlton Carroll. Many of those meetings were outside the presence of the news media at the White House or at private sessions during official travel stops, officials said. (excerpted)
Later on in this piece it comments on Cheney's private visits as well, often not getting picked up by the media til days later because they were so secretive. Bush/Cheney are exponentially more respectful and in awe of our military than the current denizens of the White-hut, who only see these opportunities as a photo-op.
So, to answer part of your snarky question, yes, Bush did write PERSONAL letters to the troops and their families.
Yes.
I will not say what i feel about these punks who are ABR because i would be banned immediately.
The only thing pure about these people is that they are purely FOS and doing the work of obama and his fellow communists.
“Did Bush sit down and write a personal letter to the families of every soldier who was killed in Iraq or Afghanistan?”
Yes, Mr. Bush has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars.
“Did Bush sit down and write a personal letter to the families of every soldier who was killed in Iraq or Afghanistan? How about Nixon during the Vietnam War? Or Truman and Eisenhower during the Korean War. Or FDR during WWII”
Very good point. Urkel has many, many faults but I can’t kick him for this one.
The parents probably didn’t want anything personal from the little faggot.
They are clearly form letters, but from the picture in the link, it looks like they may not have been signed by an electric pen:

Look at the signatures - the "O" in "Obama" is clearly different. Auto-pen signatures are identical, time after time.
Funny...CODE PINK ONLY et al cares about wars when a REPUBLICAN is the President!!!!
Here is a little thing I put together and posted on Facebook, feel free to post it as well, and it is written for facebook “friends” not FR FRiends:
What a class act...
After the deadliest single loss of US forces in Afghanistan, Barack Obama sent out form letters to the parents.
But hey he was probably VERY busy the day he “signed” those form letters, right? Well not really. Here is what he had on his schedule:
9:30 am || Receives presidential daily briefing
10:15 am || Makes statement on changes to No Child Left Behind
-—This was a 15 minute speech: ————
11:00 am || Meets with members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
That was it. Nothing on the schedule after that. Wow about 2 whole hours.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/09/22/obama-schedule-friday-september-23-2011/
For those of you whose first reaction is to pin the same charge on President Bush, read this (HINT: Bush wrote personal letters to All of the over 4,000 killed in the 2 wars):
“Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice.”
Uh. This was a singular operation of extreme import; with all eyes of the nation focused on it. - But, relax, Obama gets a pass. He’s the affirmative action President. - Just personally SIGNING those few letters wouldn’t have harelipped him, nor would it have made him miss a golf outing.
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