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OBAMA AND COMPANY ARE FORCING IMPOSSIBLE AND DANGEROUS CONDITIONS ON OUR TROOPS

by Chuck MacNab

It is no small matter that the most crippling restrictions to military tactics in the field have now been placed on soldiers and their commanders in Afghanistan. I refer to the REQUIREMENT that only Afghan troops can go into residences and certain other places when carrying out their assigned duties to purge an area of well-armed and dangerous enemy combatants.

This is a disastrous way to fight a war and is a ridiculous condition to impose on troops trying to follow orders while defending their lives and keeping themselves safe in armed combat. Only a group of fools whose lives are NOT at risk and who have zero military experience would force such preconditions on combat troops. To these people, politics seems to be the most important consideration and if someone gets killed complying with the orders, well,  so be it... and, by the way, where's a great place to have lunch!

Anyone who watches this war with even a primitive understanding of practical military tactics knows that the Obama Administration's imposition of these NEW restrictions, supposedly for protection of Afghan civilians, are being used by the Taliban to kill U.S. troops and will cause a LOT MORE U.S. casualties. This is so ignorant and so irresponsible as to be beyond comprehension. 

The Obama policies are now creating a badly managed war that interferes with the safety of individual soldiers in the field. Military commanders in Afghanistan should send a message to Washington that indicates the ridiculousness of these rules of engagement. Of course, that all but guarantees their non-promotion and retirement from the military!

Our recommendation is that Obama and his “political advisors,” go to Afghanistan with full gear, march in the 120 degree heat and wait while less well trained Afghan troops search for their Taliban relatives wherever they may hide behind civilians (which they will now be certain to do!) Perhaps some Obama “politicians” could volunteer to fight the ground war there.

It is a soldier's duty to follow orders but at the same time it is unconscionable for a military commander to risk casualties among his troops by allowing political interference to over ride sound combat tactics in the field. Yet this is happening, to the extreme detriment of soldiers on the ground!

THIS SAYS IT ALL

Forwarded to RiteOn by O’Fallon, MO Guest Editor SB
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Ed McMahon died last week. He was a great entertainer, but prior to his stage accomplishments he was a distinguished Marine Corps fighter pilot in WWII earning six Air Medals and attaining the rank of Colonel. He was discharged in 1946 and was later promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the CA Air National Guard.

Farrah Fawcett died last week after a long career in Hollywood as an actress. After she was diagnosed with cancer, she became an activist for cancer treatment and devoted her last remaining years encouraging people to seek treatment. She documented her plight on film and used it to encourage others to stay positive and upbeat despite their diagnosis and suffering.

Michael Jackson died last week. He was perhaps one of the greatest singers of modern time. He will also be remembered for his eccentric lifestyle that included sleeping with a chimpanzee, living in a carnival-like atmosphere at Neverland, his fascination with Peter Pan, and his numerous masks and costumes. He also admitted to finding pleasure sleeping with young boys and paying out millions of dollars in settlements to the families of these boys despite being acquitted by a court on one allegation of sexual molestation.

QUESTION 1- Which of the above did the House of Representatives declare a moment of silence for? (Hint - It wasn’t the first two.)

QUESTION 2- Which of the above’s family received a personal note of condolence from President Obama? (Hint - It wasn’t the first two.)

QUESTION 3- Which of the above is Al Sharpton calling to honor with a national day of mourning and stating the the national press have been unfair in their coverage? (Hint - It isn’t the first two.)

Now you know what kind of leaders we have. No wonder our nation is in trouble!

SARAH PALIN'S RESIGNATION

Commentary by VA Guest Editor EKG

Whatever Sarah Palin's reasons for resigning her governorship, she has done herself irreparable political harm by quitting.

I was not a Sarah Palin fan. While I agreed with much of her political ideology (fiscal conservatism, low taxation, personal responsibility), I did not believe her folksy, "just an ordinary hockey mom" demeanor came across as someone I wanted representing the United States on the World Stage. I cringed at the idea of her world leaders although it did bring a smile to my face when I thought about her with the king of the Saudis or that misogynistic, dwarfish lunatic, Ahmadinejad. So far as her experience or lack thereof, I had no quarrel with that. She was far more experienced than the Left's Presidential candidate, a glib teleprompter-reader who'd never done anything other than attend the right college and law school (let's see his SATS and transcripts to see if he even did that with help), wrote a couple of books (one of which the literary experts say might have been ghosted for him by Bill Ayers, a talented writer), rabble rouse as a community organizer, campaign for and hold office. So far as the latter two accomplishments, he was singularly unspectacular once he got in office save for his exemplary oratory skills. Since taking office, his inexperience has surfaced and the economy has further tanked, joblessness is approaching depression era levels, and he's busily nationalizing banks, car companies, health care and bowing the the king of Saudi Arabia.

But though I was not a fan of Governor Palin's, when I heard she had resigned, I felt as though I had been punched in the gut. It may be that she has a scandal lurking out there somewhere; or perhaps the sixteenth ethics charge will stick; or that she's broke and can't afford to keep defending herself against these attacks; or even that the recent attack on her Down's Syndrome baby was more than she could bear as a mother and, knowing these attacks would not cease, she elected to protect her children. It is also possible she or one of her family recently received a medical diagnosis that would have made continuing in office difficult. There are scores of possibilities, and we can only speculate. That said, what caused her to resign is moot.

The vicious attacks on Sarah Palin from the Left are unprecedented in the United States, and that is why I got that sinking feeling in my gut. What we saw happen to her and her family reminded me of what happened to Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, children and servants on July 17, 1918. That was over ninety years ago, and we've advanced culturally. American Leftists no longer need to take a political enemy and his/her family out into the countryside and shoot them-they had the propaganda media (Couric, Gibson), fluff magazines (Vanity Fair), Party Politics (15 ethics charges since her nomination costing her hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend) and "entertainers" like David Letterman do it for them, with words, innuendo and character assassination. Less bloody, but it achieves the same effect. - EKG

OUR CURRENT DEFENSE VULNERABILITY

 
by Chuck MacNab

People wonder why the North Koreans are launching a lot of short-range missiles and trying to get the world’s attention focused on this activity. Former Ambassador John Bolton has stated that the primary purpose of the North Korean missile launches could simply be to maintain the dictator’s control of the regime. That may be the case because we agree with almost everything Bolton says. In addition, however, we hypothesize that their dominance of the regime may not be the PRIMARY purpose of the missile launches. We hypothesize that they are testing missiles that could have the capability of wiping out our primary seaborne offensive weapons, the large aircraft carriers. If they could destroy an attack force at sea with a nuclear armed weapon it would eliminate a primary threat and force us to fall back to a strategy always rejected by liberals, an ICBM launch. In such a case, liberal led governments, like the Obama administration, might become hesitant to engage.

The Obama Administration is moving aggressively in the direction of eliminating major portions of the defense budget in order to make room for liberal redistribution of wealth programs and to fund hoaxes like Global Warming, health care “reform” (rationing) etc. In its zeal to dismantle our defenses some key and very essential areas have been neglected. For instance, modern weapons capability depends almost completely on satellite communications. An enemy that has the capability to knock out our satellites or render them useless could totally eliminate our defense and communications capabilities in a matter of hours. As Newt Gingrich has pointed out many times in various ways, any enemy that has the ability to launch an ICBM or a satellite to a position a hundred miles or so above the center of the United States could completely knock out all electronic capability for most of the country. One doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand how devastating that would be for our security! We are watching the experimental foreign policies of radical liberals move the U.S. toward possible annihilation and we sit here watching it happen.  Folks, there is NOTHING to wonder about! ICBM and deadly nuclear weapons capabilities are being developed, by countries like Iran and North Korea who have no constraints against using them at will. We have no EFFECTIVE U.S. policy to oppose this and, in fact, have all but given the Iranian nut cases a green light to continue full speed with their program!

If we listen to the comments of knowledgeable people, our defense capabilities are headed for extinction. The Obama Administration is systematically eliminating defense backup systems like the F-22 and missile defense systems that will leave satellite dependent systems as the sole method of managing our weapons systems both offensively and defensively. This is fine as long as those systems are functioning. We should continue to aggressively develop our technological capabilities but what if, as we have pointed out, the satellites are destroyed? Without alternative or backup systems now being cancelled, that circumstance would leave us completely defenseless!

4TH OF JULY

Have a happy 4th of July, drive safely and PLEASE REMEMBER OUR TROOPS on this day.