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Marine Held in Mexico: If Congress can't get Obama's attention to free Tahmooressi...
FoxNews ^ | July 20, 2014 | Oliver North

Posted on 07/20/2014 2:15:41 PM PDT by Innovative

When justifying the release of five vicious Taliban terrorists detained at “Gitmo” in exchange for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, the president said, “We don’t leave our people behind.”

Sergeant Tahmooressi completed two combat tours and received two meritorious promotions for battlefield service in Afghanistan. This spring, the honorably discharged 26-year-old veteran was planning to relocate from his home in Florida to California.

Late on March 31, disoriented by poorly-lighted, graffiti-covered traffic signs, he inadvertently drove his pick-up truck, loaded with all his possessions – including three legally purchased firearms -- into Mexico at the San Ysidro, Calif., Port of Entry crossing.

If Congress can’t get Obama’s attention on freeing an unjustly imprisoned Marine, We The People must. Join the effort to demand that our president obey the law. Otherwise the phrase “Leave no one behind,” is meaningless.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Mexico
KEYWORDS: banglist; marine; mexicanjail; mexico; olivernorth; tahmooressi; veteran
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To: Innovative; TomasUSMC; cripplecreek; PghBaldy; deoetdoctrinae; freedumb2003; Jim Robinson; ...

Meanwhile, Obama’s boy Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been returned to active duty, given quarters and light duty commensurate with his rank and will almost assuredly be paid his back pay, POW bonus, promoted and possibly given a 100% VA disability without going through the years of waiting that other service-members have had to endure. The end.


21 posted on 07/20/2014 6:47:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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22 posted on 07/20/2014 6:50:10 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does the Obama Administration place Tahmooressi in jail again for being on the run from Mexican Authorities if he escapes?


23 posted on 07/20/2014 6:51:08 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: TomasUSMC

Wouldn’t put it past them, would you? Remember, a Vietnam war traitor is secretary of state, a black panther is attorney general, a draft dodger and worse is in the White House and the Chicago mob runs the country.


24 posted on 07/20/2014 6:54:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Innovative

He was arrested on Mar. 31, 2014........


25 posted on 07/20/2014 6:54:50 PM PDT by deport
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To: Innovative; mickie; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; flaglady47
I attempted to research the name "Tahmooressi", to little avail. The usual "name origin" websites had little to no information. A site or two seemed to imply the name may be Iranian (Persian). Andrew does look partly middle-eastern.

I thought perhaps Obama was prejudiced against him on this account...but I'm more inclined to think Obama resents that Andrew is (a) military (b) a marine and (c) is the owner of personal firearms...and was caught transporting them, even though, as far as we know, it was all legal in the U.S.

Andrew has become a political football between the U.S. and Mexico. Neither president gives a hoot about the Marine as a human being. Only their own unknown motives and their personal "face" matters to each of these immoral and sorry excuses for men.

Leni

26 posted on 07/20/2014 7:27:04 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

I don’t know about his ancestry, but I understand that Sgt. Tamooressi did two tours in Iraq and is a US Marine.


27 posted on 07/20/2014 8:03:30 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: MinuteGal
I attempted to research the name "Tahmooressi", to little avail. The usual "name origin" websites had little to no information.

Likely ancestors in the Philippines would be my guess. Lot's of PI men joined the Navy after WW2 and ended up settling in the US. He could easily be third generation in the U.S. and his grandfather or G Grandfather came from the PI's.

28 posted on 07/20/2014 8:44:47 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Innovative; All

Why does anyone think the people who live and breath the MSM’s lack of reporting, much less those who do not care beyond the next episode of American Idol, would care a bit about this issue???

The way to get this guy out is $$$$$$$$...

Or, find a way to get down there and bust him out...

I’m sure there are some folks thinking about that very thing...

Bounce in, bounce out, before anyone knows what hit them...

It’ll make for some interesting diplomacy...

Why not consider those options...Nothing else seems to be moving the process along...


29 posted on 07/20/2014 9:52:45 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: Innovative
Time for the Marine Commandant to send a few Osprey's with a Marine Force Recon unit supported by some AV-8B's racked with Mavericks and capped by a squadron of F/A-18 D's with full bag of MK82's ready to pickle off and bring our man home NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!


30 posted on 07/24/2014 7:35:43 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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The civilized term now is “INCURSION.”


31 posted on 07/24/2014 7:42:42 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: stevie_d_64

The real fun starts not when he escapes but when he get back to USA and Odumbi Feds try to arrest him because he is a wanted escaped prisoner from Mexico.

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32 posted on 07/27/2014 11:11:32 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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Extradition would mean some serious stern letters from our elected caste of feckless wonders...

I’m sure Tahmooressi and his family would already have a support team in place in ANY eventuality...Escape, or release...

I would, if I were him (Tahmooressi) would be very humble, yet very outspoken of the absolute over-stepping of the Mexican government and its nonsense (selective enforcement of its laws), and more vocal in my absolute failure of my government and its support for my simple situation, allowing politics and other diplomatic snafu’s to cause such a blunder of epic proportions to effect this country, not just myself and my family...

But that is just my opinion...


33 posted on 07/31/2014 8:51:27 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: Innovative

Obama was being specific. That Marine isn’t a muslim. He’s not ‘his people’.

Obama’s a lawyer folks. He’s not stupid. He’s deliberate. As soon as you look at his actions from that perspective, it makes sense.


34 posted on 07/31/2014 8:54:02 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

“Obama’s a lawyer folks. He’s not stupid. He’s deliberate. As soon as you look at his actions from that perspective, it makes sense.’

I totally agree — unfortunately many people, even many people here think he is “just incompetent”. On the other hand, maybe he is, but whoever is pulling his strings is indeed deliberate.


35 posted on 07/31/2014 7:49:24 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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Why not trade 5 Million Obama Illegal Wetbacks for ONE Legal US Marine?


36 posted on 07/31/2014 7:59:48 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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