S.O.S. — Save Our (Navy) Seals

Investors.com ^ | March 5, 2010 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Military: Two U.S. congressmen take the lead in proclaiming the obvious — that those who attack this country should be punished and not those who risk their lives to defend it.

The Navy SEALs are a special breed of patriot and warrior. This highly trained and select group — the best of the best — is a daily participant in the long twilight struggle against the enemies of freedom that President Kennedy warned us about.

Kennedy formally created the SEAL (sea, air, land) outfit as an elite force capable of combat operations in any environment. It was a team of Navy SEAL sharpshooters that killed three pirates who commandeered the American-flagged Maersk Alabama and held its captain hostage.

Last Sept. 3, Special Warfare Operators 2nd Class Matthew McCabe, from Perrysburg, Ohio, and Jonathan Keefe of Yorktown, Va., as well as Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Julio Huertas of Blue Island, Ill., were members of Navy SEAL Team 10 who were dropped into harm's way to capture a high-value target known as Objective Amber.

The mission to capture Ahmed Hashim Abed, the mastermind behind the killing, burning and mutilation of four American contractors working for Blackwater USA in Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2004 was a success.

But so skewed are our priorities these days, the three SEALs are facing court-martial because Abed claims McCabe punched him in the stomach while in custody.

[KeyLargo]

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Military Jury Clears Blue Island Navy Seal
WGN News ^ | April 22, 2010 | Staff

Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:18:36 AM by raptor22

CHICAGO - Julio Huertas, a Navy Seal from Blue Island Illinois, has been cleared by a military jury of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraq prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors.

The burning death of the contractors became a major turning point in the Iraq war. There bodies were dragged through the streeets of Fallujah and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates River.......

[Kaslin]

There are people, including some on FR who maintain that Sarah Palin’s support for getting these charges dropped is simply and purely politically motivated.

They are accusing her of being an opportunist. Who knew.

You are kidding me. That is unbelievable. the need to crawl bck under the rock they crawled out from

[Kaslin]

I was so happy this morning when I turned on Fox and Friends and saw the report that the first Seal had been cleared. I am praying that the other two also will be cleared

[rlmorel]

Yeah. They see her as someone with an “Oooh. Another low-hanging conservative issue to pluck from the tree of support!”

Sarah Palin IS a politician, but she is also a human being with valid views.