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2014-04-01 Fifth Column

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2014-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 I've always said that the only reason we 'got' OBL was that when Obama was asked for a go-nogo decision he could not contact his master (ValJar) and actually made a decision on his own.
Ever since then she has kept him on a very tight leash.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-04-01 00:34|| 2014-04-01 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 If ever there was a person other than Soros whose death would improve this government. its ValJar.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-01 00:56|| 2014-04-01 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the text of a email my ex-military buddies are passing around. I can't speak to its authenticity regarding the facts but it makes logical sense given what we've come to expect from Zero.

Apparently the President "managed" the details of the rescue of Captain Phillips. In doing so he earned the hostility of the Seals entrusted with the mission. Here's an account by a career Naval officer who had a distinguished career, Herb Schwartz, in which he refers to the President as "Zero". (Which gives you an indication that he feels the President was more of an obstructionist than what the WH would later characterize as "daring and decisive", once success had been achieved.

If you see the movie, keep these things in mind !

The real story of the rescue of Captain Phillips...

Herb Schwartz is a Navy Blue and Gold Officer for the Naval Academy and father of the highest ranked graduate at the USNA in 2000. He flew missions over the former Soviet Union with Francis Gary Powers, taught at the Judge Advocates college and briefed President Kennedy as an intelligence officer. The best is that he is my friend and a man I trust. Did I forget that he is an author and a retired Military Judge.

Jim O'Neal

Begin forwarded message:

From: Herb Schwartz, Subject:
The real story of Captain Phillips written shortly after the event by someone who was there.

All of us want to raise our glass this week to the Navy SEALs who popped those three Somali pirates. And I'm sure you want to hear the real story of what happened. Especially because there is a revoltingly opportunistic and cowardly side to it. Guess which side Zero (aka: our president) is on?

Why, for example, did it take SEAL Team Six (aka DEVGRU, Navy Special Warfare Development Group, the Navy's equivalent of Delta Force) over 36 hours to get to the scene?

Because Zero refused to authorize the SEAL deployment for those 36 hours, during which the OSC - the on scene commander, Cmdr. Frank Castellano of the USS Bainbridge - repeatedly requested them.

Once the SEALs arrived - parachuting from a C-17 into the ocean near the ship - Zero then imposed Rules of Engagement (ROE) specifying the SEALs could not do anything unless the life of the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, was in "imminent" danger.

Thus, when Capt. Phillips attempted to escape by jumping off the lifeboat into the ocean, the SEAL snipers had all four pirates (one later surrendered) sighted in and could have taken them out then and there - but they could not fire due to Zero's ROE restrictions.

When the SEALs approached the lifeboat in a RIB (rigid-hull inflatable boat) carrying supplies for Capt. Phillips and the pirates, the pirates fired upon them. Not only was no fire returned due to the ROE, but as the pirates were shooting at the RIB, SEAL snipers on the Bainbridge had them all dialed in. No triggers were pulled due to the ROE.

Two specific rescue plans were developed by Cmdr. Castellano and the SEAL teams. Zero personally refused to authorize them.

After the second refusal and days of dithering, Cmdr. Castellano decided he had the Operational Area and OSC authority to "solely determine risk to hostage" and did not require any further approval of the president.

Four hours later, the White House is informed that three pirates are dead and Capt. Phillips has been rescued unharmed. A WH press release is immediately issued, giving credit to the president for his "daring and decisive" behavior that resulted in such success.

Zero has absolutely no military knowledge or experience whatsoever. He demanded decisional control over the entire hostage drama to the last detail. All actions required his personal approval. He dithered like a coward while the world laughed at our warships flummoxed by four illiterate teenagers with AKs in a lifeboat.

Only when the Navy Commander decided to ignore his Pantywaist-in Chief and take action and responsibility himself, were the incredible skills of the SEALs put into play.

That Zero could cynically and opportunistically claim that his "bold" "calm" "tough" leadership was responsible should remind everyone that not a single action, not a single word of this man can be trusted. He is bereft of honesty and moral character. That's why he's Zero.

We raise a glass full of pride and gratitude to Navy Commander Frank Castellano, the Navy SEALs for their incredible competence, and our military as we also recognize Zero for what he is, or more appropriately, for what he is not.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2014-04-01 01:28|| 2014-04-01 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 She's the appointed Chief of Staff of Champ's 'Shadow Gov't' complete with assigned Secret Service detail.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-01 03:17|| 2014-04-01 03:17|| Front Page Top

#5 This letter to the editor was written by Reis R. Kash of Springfield, Oregon and submitted to the Register-Guard of Eugene Oregon. The letter appeared in the newspaper on March 19, 2014.

>Obama is no ordinary weakling.

Those who compare the bare-chested conqueror of the Crimea with the metrosexual ruler of the United States and find our emperor weak to the point of deserving ridicule miss the essential strength of President Obama.

Its no ordinary weakling who can turn a once-respected country into an international joke; reduce Congress to a gaggle of sniveling sycophants; turn the worlds finest medical system into a failed third-rate socialist nightmare with a stroke of his pen; shatter our Constitution without attempted recourse by the sons and daughters of frontiersmen and pioneers whose blood was used to write that inspired document; and turn the people of our once-united states into a herd of competing minorities who, like suckling pigs, are each afraid to lose his place on the government teat should he raise his voice to protest the ruin of our country.

So dont denigrate the nonentity ruler who has overcome his uncertain ancestry and ludicrous incompetence to do what no other king or dictator has been able to do in our 237-year history: He has destroyed America.

REIS R. KASH
Springfield

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-01 03:43|| 2014-04-01 03:43|| Front Page Top

#6 He dithered like a coward while the world laughed at our warships flummoxed by four illiterate teenagers with AKs in a lifeboat.

His dithering wasn't cowardly, it was calculated. Everything he has done has been carefully calculated to do maximum damage to our Republic.

Damage to our our prestige, Constitution, economy, psyche and every aspect of our identity. He is our destroyer. May he get what he has coming to him. ValJar too.

Posted by Thrack Henbane6515 2014-04-01 08:13|| 2014-04-01 08:13|| Front Page Top

#7 The dithered with a purpose, just like the deaths of the former Seals in Benghazi, at every opportunity, the death of the Republic's US military is his objective.

Posted by Injun Ebboluger4092 2014-04-01 14:55|| 2014-04-01 14:55|| Front Page Top

#8 If we were able to follow the spoor, I suspect we'd find Brennan's team and Valjar at the root of Benghazi, F&F, Boston Bombing, and most of the other scandals over the past five years. Call me a conspiracy nut if you will, but I just have this sense, this hunch.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-01 15:03|| 2014-04-01 15:03|| Front Page Top

#9 It is very difficult to watch what these dedicated communists have done to dismantle our country in 6 years--these America haters. It leaves one with a strong sense of revulsion and a hope that Congress would also feel this repugnance--enough to do something about it. Certainly, one would hope that the voters would vote in mass to save the country from these narcissistic bonehead SOBs. The present regime in D.C. can all kiss my tukhus.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-04-01 18:19|| 2014-04-01 18:19|| Front Page Top

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