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By Karin McQuillan
American military and State Department families that have lost their sons in
the war against Islamic jihadis are outing President Obama for playing
politics with the lives (and deaths) of their sons. Speaking out in some of
the most painful interviews ever shown on television, they directly blame
the president for the loss of their sons' lives. Their accusations speak
directly to Obama's competence in defending our national security.
Iran is on the brink of possessing nuclear weapons. Egypt's elected
President Mubarak, the keystone to stability in the Middle East for the last
30 years, was pressured by President Obama to step down in favor of the
terror group the Muslim Brotherhood. The Benghazi embassy was denied Marine
protection, even on 9/11, with the subsequent tragedy and White House cover
-up. We haven't lost an ambassador since Jimmy Carter's incompetence.
Obama's Middle East policy has been a disaster, with one exception -- the
killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEAL Team 6.
The president ran the special ops raid on Osama bin Laden's compound with
one eye on national security and the other on political opportunism.
Intelligence was compromised because there was political advantage to Obama
to do so. Within a day, the White House divulged details of the attack,
including that it was carried out by SEAL Team Six.
Three months later, 22 men from SEAL Team 6 were dead, victims of Obama's
policies and politics. This story has been buried, until this 9/11.
Aaron Vaughn
Aaron's mother, Karen Vaughn, has a simple message: "How dare they -- they
put a target on my son's back and even on my back! A little over 90 days
later, my son was dead."
Sean Hannity ran a searing interview with Karen and Billy Vaughn, parents of
a fallen Navy SEAL Team Six serviceman, Aaron Vaughn. It deserves repeated
viewing. Aaron signed up to serve after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan
in 2011 after the Osama raid, along with 21 other SEALS -- the single
greatest disaster in the Afghanistan war and Navy Special Forces history.
Robert Gates, the defense secretary at the time, was appalled at President
Obama and Vice President Biden boasting about the raid in detail: "We all
agreed that we would not release any operational details from the effort to
take out bin Laden. That all fell apart the next day."
Karen Vaughn:
Aaron called me, his tone was extremely serious and he said, mom, you
need to wipe your social media clean. Get rid of everything. Any reference
of me or my buddies because there is chatter and all of our lives are
possibly in danger, including yours.
Karen Vaughn says that her son told her the SEALs were angry that their
secrecy was compromised by the White House. Aaron felt that it put not only
his life, but also the lives of 300 American military families in danger.
She adds, "I can tell you that the community was stunned by the [White House
] announcement. It was unprecedented and extremely dangerous."
As the mother speaks, Aaron's father, Billy Vaughn's face is so full of
grief and anger, I can hardly look at him. He looks like he might explode
if not for intense self-control. Billy's face was more searing than his
wife's words. I don't think I will ever forget it. Then it is his turn to
speak.
These elite warriors can do anything they want to the Taliban, to al
Qaeda if this administration -- if President Obama would just recognize the
enemy, give them rules of engagement that favor them, instead of leveling
the playing field for the enemy, and give them the equipment that is
required to carry out their missions.
And I mention those three things because those are other issues that we
have found in searching and looking at what happened to Aaron and those
warriors on that night, all three of those things were -- were reasons why
this chopper was shot down.
Why this largest loss in a single day in the 10-year war on terror was
caused and also the largest loss in the history of naval special warfare.
...Our president is directly responsible for the rules of engagement.
Let me just say this. On the night that Extortion 17 was shot down, this
is all from the military -- we learned that the Afghan National Army, the
Afghan National Police, the Afghan Security Ministry, are all involved in
every single special ops mission, in the pre-planning, the post-op.
They know the flight routes of the choppers. That chopper flew in there
that night in a place that had already been cleared seven times, according
to our military, by our warriors and turned back over to the Afghans.
A 3 1/2-hour firefight under way and our chopper flew in with an AC-130
gunship in the air, two H-64s and they were not allowed to give any pre-
assault fire. They landed the chopper like it was landing at Wal-Mart even
though a firefight was underway.
When the chopper was shot down, neither were the AC-130 or the two AH-
64s allowed to take out the savages who fired the RPGs because they were
standing on a tower. And under the rules of engagement, they didn't know if
there might be friendlies in the building. These rules of engagement are
criminal for our warriors.
In an interview the Vaughns gave this 9/11, Billy said: "We expect better
out, out of the, the high-ups in our government. We, as American citizens,
look to our government. We elect them; we look to them to take care of the
best interests of the American citizen, and especially the warrior. And I
believe what the administration did then -- I believe it was criminal."
A little-told side to President Obama's running of the war in Afghanistan is
the fact that the rules of engagement there are deadly to American soldiers
. Under President Obama, average yearly deaths in Afghanistan have doubled.
The Obama administration is denying our troops air support and threatening
them with prosecution for firing in self-defense. Returning military are
protesting, but their voices are not reported in the mainstream media (read
here, here, here).
Sean Smith
There was another heart-wrenching interview the evening before the Ryan-
Biden debate that did make it onto prime-time news -- on CNN, no less.
Anderson Cooper interviewed Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, father of
three, an Air Force veteran and computer specialist who was murdered in the
terrorist attack in Benghazi this 9/11.
He was my only child. ... I look at TV and I see bloody hand prints on
walls, thinking, my god, is that my son's? I don't know if he was shot. I
don't know -- I don't know. They haven't told me anything. They are still
studying it. And the things that they are telling me are just outright lies.
That Susan Rice, what -- she talked to me personally and she said, she
said, this is the way it was. It was -- it was because of this film that
came out.
COOPER: So she told you personally that she thought it was a result of
that video of the protest?
SMITH: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. In fact all of them did. All of them
did. Leon Panetta actually took my face in his hands like this and he said,
trust me.
...at first I was so proud because they were treating me so nice when I
went to that reception. They all came up to me and talked to me and
everything. I cried on Obama's shoulder. And he -- then he'd kind of looked
off into the distance. So that was worthless to me. I want to know, for god'
s sakes.
It's my son. I had him for the first -- I told Obama personally, I said,
look, I had him for his first 17 years and then he went into the service,
then you got him. And -- I won't say it the way I said it. But I said you
screwed up, you didn't do a good job, I lost my son.
The Obama administration denied the embassy the military security they
repeatedly requested. The embassy was forced to rely on hired locals
instead of Marines. According to State Department Regional Security Officer
Eric Nordstrom, at the congressional hearings held October 11 on the
Benghazi cover-up, "in deference to sensitivity to Libyan practice the
guards at Benghazi were unarmed."
Mr. Nordstrom said that he was forced to a lesser security profile due
to reduced staffing. As a result, instead of man-to-man defense, they had to
move to zone defense. In other words, they had to rely on help from other
areas in the case of an attack while sheltered in a facility that did not
meet minimum requirements.
Obama lied to the American public in order to promote his major political
talking point -- that al-Qaeda was defeated because of bin Laden's death.
The administration's false claims of success were put above the safety of
our embassy personnel. That is what Pat Smith was referring to when she
said to Obama to his face, "You screwed up, you didn't do a good job, I lost
my son."
Joseph Logan
A third story is also receiving coverage -- in the U.K.'s Daily Mail, that
is, and on Fox News and Sean Hannity's radio web page. The father of fallen
Marine Joseph Logan is speaking out about the condolence form letter he
received from President Obama, delivered by a UPS truck driver almost five
months after his son's remains were brought home from Afghanistan.
The father, Tom Logan, experienced Obama's late, impersonal form letter as
profoundly disrespectful: "It opened up a wound, a hole in our heart, that
you can't fix."
Tom Logan sent the form letter back to the Oval Office with a personal, hand
-written message written across the bottom:
You, Sir, are an embarrassment to the Oval Office. ... Your ridiculous
rules of engagement have caused the massive amount of casualties on your
watch in Afghanistan. While we watch your media pander to your
administration and clearly sweep things under the rug for you. I understand
Marines die. You have tied their hands and feet! I am thankful that I did
not serve under a Commander in Chief such as you. I am sickened that my son
had to.
The families of the 21 Navy SEALs killed three months after the Osama raid
also received form condolence letters, each with a huge Barack Obama
signature that looked as if it was signed by an automatic pen.
Obama did have the time to send a personal letter to rapper Heavy D's family
when he passed away, to be read before a crowd of 1,500 at Heavy D's star-
studded funeral.
It is not as if writing condolence letters would be a big burden on Obama's
busy schedule. The Department of Defense reports 1,650 combat deaths in
total in Afghanistan since the beginning of the war in 2001. That's a rough
average of 150 deaths a year. Obama has played a hundred rounds of golf
with White House staffers but can't write a single condolence letter every
other day.
The contrast with President Bush is remarkable. Bush (who played golf 24
times and then stopped playing in deference to the troops) 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 ... escaped public
notice." President Bush also met privately with "more than 500 families of
troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans ... outside
the presence of the news media."
The first lady (Laura Bush) 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...."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.
These military and State Department families who have lost their sons since
2008 have lost respect for Obama as commander in chief. They are angry that
their sons' lives are cheap to Obama, and their deaths not treated as
worthy of his personal attention. As Pat Smith says so eloquently: "You
screwed up, you didn't do a good job, I lost my son." Or Billy Smith: "
These rules of engagement are criminal for our warriors." Tom Logan: "I
understand Marines die. You have tied their hands and feet! I am thankful
that I did not serve under a Commander in Chief such as you."
All Americans can say the same: in playing politics with national security,
Obama is not looking out for our lives.
The author was a Peace Corps volunteer who served in Senegal, a clinical
social worker and psychotherapist, and a mystery author whose novels are set
in Kenya. She currently writes for American Thinker.
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honestly, the voices of critics have largely been mugged
by the leftiest media. Yes, they have been doing this for
long since a black took office.
I wonder what if the mass media has been given a week of vacation
to Bahamas (leaving America to its people)?
Odumba will be a huge laughing stock even Peakashit and trealeave would stay
away (weirdly, they announce their coming marriage right away while the
court says their marriage is not well defined in laws).
t**x
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都他妈的王八蛋,把孩子送进军队,都等福利呢?!别的国家死的人怎么算。。。
这种垃圾文章你都转,你是猪头。
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