Posted on 10/27/2012 6:35:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Fact 1: According to Special Ops Lt, Colonel "Doug" calling Rush Limbaugh today, there are standing orders for instant flash communication about any attacks on US Ambassadors or four-star generals. As soon as the assault on the Benghazi mission started, local personnel notified the US Embassy in Tripoli, which triggered an instant alarm in Washington, DC. The President's military aide knows within a few minutes and is required to notify POTUS immediately. Two separate "In Extremis" rescue teams were alerted, a C-130 was ready, and F-18 jet bombers. US personnel laser-spotted the Libyan mortar team that killed Americans, pointing the way for bombs that never came. This is an historic video of instant testimony by Rush Limbaugh's military caller. No need to wait for an "investigation" long after the election.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Well we know what happened.
To quote Joe Biden, that's a BFD!
The truth is that the commander in chief, the current occupant of the oval office, chose not to stop his co-religionists from murdering an ambassador and American soldiers. His loyalty is for them, not for Americans.
He said it! he said that in time of crisis he would stand by his co-religionists! HE SAID IT!
He has consistently refused to condemn attacks by his co-religionists on normal people. He has consistently condemned attacks on his co-religionists. He condemned the recent attack on a Christian neighborhood of Beirut ONLY because one of his co-religionists was also killed. He didn’t care about the Christians murdered.
The conclusion is obvious!
I think we are are flabbergasted at 0bama's lies and furious at his dereliction of duty.
Rooster, Rush’s caller left an indelible mark on my mind and spirit. It was as though he was speaking the most important words we would ever hear. A warning. He left no wiggle room and even surpassed Rush’s normal brilliance in his confident presentation of the facts. Rush ended up saying “So, someone failed to make a gutsy call.” No, not quite. Guts had nothing to do with it. Someone failed to unleash the splendor that is our trained and ready military. Someone held them back. Why?
I was listening to Savage last night on the radio, and others this week . . . no one is asking where was/is Valerie Jarrett in all of this? Wasn’t she the one who told/advised O NOT to go after Osama THREE times? I betcha dollars to donuts her dirty hands are all over this. Between her and Axelrod, they cautioned the pResident to do NOTHING so as not to put his re-election efforts in danger . . . arghhhhhhh
And if the order to stand down came from the president (and it must have had Obama's approval), Gen Ham's action was remarkable.
He basically said "Obama, you're not my CIC."
I hear a more subdued voice. Nothing so strong as “this is no time for war”
Perhaps that was a thought mixed with “God, what do I do now” and “please pour me another cup of coffee” and general dithering. The result was that there was no order given amongst the pacifist thought babble.
For example, Marines and SEALs practice NEO ops prior to deploying on every float, as a VERY high priority mission. They involve full dress-rehearsals, with civilian role players, helos, landing craft, rounding up stranded stragglers, opfor ambushes, role-playing "angry mobs," fighting your way to LZs or even beaches while protecting a gaggle of civilians down to babies etc. Conducting successful NEO ops is a TOP TOP TOP military and state department mission priority. I cannot emphasize this enough. NEO ops are planned and practiced over and over and over.
When the alarm goes off worldwide that an embassy or consulate is being attacked, the entire U.S. military swings into rescue mode, without waiting for any orders from the White House. The military does all of the operational planning and begins to execute the rescue op.
The one thing they CAN'T do is cross an international border without permission from POTUS. So the US Military will be inbound full-steam-ahead to make the rescue, and all they need from POTUS is a "proceed" order. In this case, they got a "stand down" instead.
This is at the POTUS level, it is not a decision taken at State. State and the military (JCS) should be in the Situation Room with POTUS soon after a critical incident like this begins, so all decisions can be made in real time. (I have heard nowhere that POTUS went into the Situation Room at all. Apparently he went to the Oval Office briefly, but not down to the Situation Room, where the "war planning" screens, full staffs and commo tools are all located for dealing with a major crisis.)
But if POTUS punts after a brief Oval Office meeting with Dempsey and Hillary and goes upstairs to the family quarters....the stranded Americans will die.
Only POTUS can give the order to cross international borders. Only POTUS can allow US warplanes to give air support to Americans battling on the ground in a foreign country. If POTUS makes himself unavailable, the Americans will die.
Even the VEEP or Secretary of State cannot make that call. The VEEP can only do it if the POTUS is determined to be medically unable to perform his functions. If the POTUS goes upstairs and turns off his phone, there is nothing anybody can do about it. Nothing. And the besieged Americans will die.
On Friday an anonymous Pentagon insider ("Doug") called into Rush with a lot of new details about this disgraceful fiasco. But what we really need now is for a high-ranking officer with insider knowledge to go public, risk his pension and career, and tell the truth.
The blame for this humiliating and shameful national disgrace is pointing directly at the POTUS, and America needs to know why the inbound rescue operation was aborted.
The weird thing here is that Obama gave an order of "Stand Down"...and his general in charge (Carter Ham) disobeyed it and was immediately relieved of duty.
Thx for that, Travis! Adds much clarity to this situation.
Thank you.
Praying a true Patriot steps forward to nail him to the wall.
-—— Obama gave an order of “Stand Down”-——
I have seen no evidence of that order in those words. I would expect a more lawyerly and ambiguous and meaningless statement that could not be interpreted as attack.
I don’t understand. If Ham disobeyed Obama’s order to “Stand Down”, why did the assistance not happen? Are you saying Ham gave the go ahead and the order was instantly over ruled? Who overrulled it??? This is the first I have heard that during the response a General disobeyed and was immediately relieved of duty.
According to the official government web site, Gen. Ham is still heading Africom, with no adverse news coverage for the last 6 months.
http://www.africom.mil/GenCarterHam.asp
There is plenty of fair criticism for this administrations failures in the Middle East. Let’s not distract people from those with false charges and hysteria...
See Post 10 above for clarification of that issue by Travis McGee.
I will try to find a source for my statement.
The enemies of America act while the people sleep.
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