Posted on 05/24/2014 5:44:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
Every civilian there should turn their backs while he is spewing. I know that the cadets can’t because it will be their ass.
Those cadets will be scarred forever knowing that their hard work and dedication was rewarded by a clown speech.
Has his head up his @rse so far he thinks "Leading form Behind" is an advance.
My dad told me that his army group never polished the back strip on his boots....as a good soldier never looks behind.
His first official act under this new policy will be to close West Point and transfer all the cadets to Columbia at government expense.
“I say, when he is in the USA, he is in enemy territory.”
Barack Hussein Obama is NOT FAILING!! Judge him by the standard to which he adheres, not that of a loyal American.
He is marching to his own tune, or rather one composed for him by a cadre of very clever socialists. Be means of Executive Orders, for which the Constitution affords no ready means for overturning by the Congress, he will be able to effectively utterly negate our Constitution during the next two years.
I am awed by the spectacle, even as I grieve for my beloved America.
This idiot’s been trying to get us into one war after the next... And he has the guts to say that?
In two yeas, I am wondering if we will still have a country. I am not confident.
Courtesy of the washington times;
Navy SEAL Team 6 became a household name for their role in killing Osama bin Laden. Did the Obama administration put a target on the backs of members of Navy SEAL Team 6? This is the question that parents of slain SEALs are now asking — and rightly so.
Forget Benghazi, the IRS, Eric H. Holder Jr. and the National Security Agency spying on U.S. citizens. Important as these scandals are, what happened to SEAL Team 6 could very well dwarf them. Our government betrayed America’s finest warriors.
On May 1, 2011, the country rightly celebrated the death of bin Laden. The Obama administration, however, wanted to do more. It sought to claim full credit for the assassination, deciding to spike the football. On May 3, at an event in Washington, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. did the unthinkable: He publicly revealed the identity of the special-operations unit responsible for bin Laden’s killing.
His reckless action put at risk the lives of every member of SEAL Team 6. The Taliban and other jihadists eager to avenge bin Laden now knew which unit to target. Stunned and shocked, SEAL members immediately realized they were going to be hunted by al Qaeda sympathizers.
Karen Vaughn, the mother of slain SEALAaron Vaughn, says that within hours after Mr. Biden’s comments, her son called to tell her to wipe away every piece of information regarding the family on social media, Facebook and Twitter. “I never heard Aaron that afraid in his life,” Mrs. Vaughn said in an interview. “He told me: ‘Mom, we’re picking up chatter. We’re not safe. You’re not safe. Delete everything.’”
According to Mrs. Vaughn, Mr. Biden essentially placed a bull’s-eye on her son’s back — and that of all the other SEALs. He leaked classified information. SEAL Team 6 is a covert unit, which is supposed to operate in the shadows. This is how they are able to conduct deadly raids on terrorist groups. Their reward, however, for killing the world’s foremost terrorist mastermind was to be outed by their own government.
Yet, the betrayal did not stop there. On Aug. 6, 2011, a Chinook helicopter carrying 30 U.S. service members — including 15 SEAL Team 6 members — was shot down in Afghanistan. Everyone on board was killed. The rescue team was sent to aid an Army Ranger unit battling the Taliban and desperately in need of backup. The Chinook was shot down by a Taliban rocket-propelled grenade in Wardak province. Taliban fighters were waiting on three sides for the aircraft as it approached. The Chinook was a sitting duck as it hovered in the sky. The evidence is overwhelming and disturbing: SEAL Team 6 members were ambushed. It was America’s single greatest loss of life in Afghanistan and the largest number of SEALs ever killed in one incident in history.
Recently, parents of the slain SEAL members held a news conference at the National Press Club. They are rightly demanding a congressional investigation. They have numerous troubling questions. Why was the Chinook not provided a military escort plane, as is standard military procedure when a special-operations unit conducts a raid? Why were the SEALs placed on an outdated aircraft built in the 1960s? Why were they not flying in a special-operations aircraft that is designed to take enemy fire and go deep behind enemy lines? Why were they ordered not to return fire against the tower from where insurgents were firing? Did the strict rules of engagement cause the deaths of our service members?
The most troubling question of all is, why did seven of the eight Afghans on that aircraft board at the last minute? They were not on the flight manifest, which was a gross violation of military procedure. The original Afghans scheduled to be on that Chinook were replaced just prior to the mission. In other words, the SEALs were accompanied by strangers. They could very possibly have been Taliban suicide bombers posing as Afghan soldiers. Did someone from within the corrupt Afghan regime betray our troops?
The scandal only gets worse. Mrs. Vaughn said that her family received a DVD from the U.S. military that recorded the funeral services in Afghanistan for her dead son, as well as the other slain SEALs. To the parents’ horror, a Muslim cleric presided over the services. In Arabic, he damned the “infidel” SEALs, condemning their souls “to hell.”
“I was disgusted,” Mrs. Vaughn said. “We went to multiple translators to make sure we got the imam’s exact words correct. All of the translators told us the same thing. I couldn’t believe that this cleric was allowed to so openly disrespect and insult our son and the other American soldiers.”
The U.S. military’s practice of using Islamic clerics at funeral services is part of Washington’s supposed outreach to the Muslim world. In reality, it is national self-abasement masquerading as multicultural tolerance. Aaron Vaughn valiantly served his country. Yet our military couldn’t even give him a proper, respectful funeral. He was betrayed — in life and in death. He was placed in a war zone with severe rules of engagement that eventually cost him and his fellow SEALs their lives.
Mr. Biden is no bumbling fool. Rather, his deliberate, reckless disclosure placed SEAL Team 6 in mortal jeopardy. He and his boss, President Obama, exploited them in order to boost their re-election chances. The SEALs, however, paid the ultimate price. Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden have American blood on their hands. The parents of the dead SEALs deserve to know the truth about what really happened on that final mission. Our finest warriors were killed and, possibly, sacrificed. It’s time for a congressional investigation. Or do we no longer care?
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I don't remember seeing this posted in the Washington Times, but it sure rings true! •
How about if this Kenyan explains to the graduates why he murdered Navy Seals and a US Ambassador, why he sells arms and missiles to Al Queda, why he does not see terrorism when a muslim extremist murders unarmed soldiers at Ft Hood, why he supports Muslim Brotherhood, why he ships arms to cartels in Mexico, and why he is a stinking filthy communist.
Good outline for his resignation announcement
Without reading the article it sounds like he’s making an excuse for things he’s not going to do.
Will the graduates remember that Benghazi Barry Soetoro flubbed his first swearing in and made his second swearing in as CIC in private?
Why was that?
I love our fighting men, but what horse’s ass asked this piece of offal to speak?
May God bless the person that made that comment.
It’s no wonder Benghazi Barry Soetoro gave away control over the internet—he and Valerie Jarrett need the censorship of truth.
I watched the SEAL Team 6 “press” conference. Those parents need justice.
I would argue there was no fraud involved in his election. We can thank the 52 percent of the electorate who wanted this train wreck in office ... scary huh?
What a waste - talking foreign policy to a bunch of cadets is like talking advanced physics to 4th graders...just another propaganda moment that can’t be wasted.
“Over reaching FOREIGN policy”? What about all the over reaching DOMESTIC policies the bast$rd has implement right here in America?
“Over reaching FOREIGN policy”? What about all the over reaching DOMESTIC policies the bast$rd has implement right here in America?
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