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SEAL Hero’s Mother: “Hearts and Mind of Our Enemy Is More Valuable to This Government Than My Son’s Blood” (Video)

Via Gateway Pundit:

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This combo shows the 30 troops killed in a helicopter downing in Afghanistan on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. The Pentagon on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 identified the Americans as 17 members of the elite Navy SEALs, five Naval Special Warfare personnel who support the SEALs, three Air Force Special Operations personnel and an Army helicopter crew of five. (AP Photo)

On Thursday three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, appeared at a press conference to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011. This was just months after the successful raid on the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan.

At the press conference the families released video on how military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team VI heroes. This cleric disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah. A video of the Muslim cleric’s “prayer” was shown this morning with a certified translation.

During the press conference Karen Vaughn made this stunning revelation on the political correctness that has infiltrated our military.

“Why was there no pre-assault fire? We were told as families because pre-assault fire damages our efforts to win the hearts and mind of our enemy. In other words, the hearts and mind of our enemy is more valuable to this government than my son’s blood.“

 

See video at Gateway Pundit, leave them a comment.

 

From Fox News Insider (video):

Parents of Slain Navy SEAL: Obama Admin Put a Target on Our Son's Back

Navy SEAL Team 6 became a household name when members of the elite unit took out Usama bin Laden. But the same unit suffered tragedy just three months later when a helicopter carrying 30 American troops, most of them members of SEAL Team 6, was blasted out of the sky by Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

Now, the parents of three of the men killed are publicly speaking out and blaming the Obama administration for serious missteps that led to their sons’ deaths. They are pushing for a Congressional investigation.  (continue reading at Fox News Insider)

Good for these parents.  If the parents and families do not stand up, who will?  Same goes for those killed and injured in Benghazi.

 

Related:

 

Breaking: US military units put on alert as security situation deteriorates in Libyan capital

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This brings up a forehead-slapping question: Mr Obama and Ms. Clinton: 'Why in the hell wasn't this done when U.S. diplomats in Libya repeatedly asked the Obama administration for more security in Benghazi in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate but were "denied these resources" repeatedly up to and at the time they were murdered by al-Qaeda terrorists' and you began your string of lies and cover-ups?  (Hyscience)

 

 

Another great motorcycle ride

A nice ride to Pickwick Dam (Pickwick Landing State Park) and Big Hill Pond State Park yesterday.  Beautiful weather.  Temperature in the 80's, clear blue sky and my honey with me. Click images to enlarge, especially the panoramic views of the park and of Pickwick Dam.

While sweet hubby and I were enjoying life together, unknown to us, terrorists were attacking innocent Americans at the Boston Marathon.

We never know what the next day will bring.  One lesson to be learned is - make the most of each day.  Tell the one you love how much they mean to you.  Enjoy the beauty of this great country, a country that was built on freedom.  Enjoy those freedoms.  There are evil people ready to destroy us if given the opportunity.

 

Updates on the terror bombings via Drudge today:

bombs in pressure cookers

 
Roommate speaks out about Saudi national being questioned by FBI...
Apartment searched...
Cops carry out 'several large bags'...
HUNT FOR BOSTON BOMBERS...
Explosives packed with ball bearings; 3 dead, 170+ wounded; 17 in critical...
'25, 30 people have at least one leg missing'...
Martin Richard, 8, among dead...
Elderly runner in viral photo finishes race...
HEROES: Kindness, humanity amid the carnage...
Witnesses recount war zone at marathon... ***WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT***
Runner: 'They must have had some sort of threat called in'...
Axelrod: Obama Thinks Bombings Could Be Related to 'Tax Day'...
Blasts put world's cities on alert...
NYC deploys 1,000 cops to top landmarks...
UK police review London Marathon security...
MINISTER: Will not be 'blown off course'...
Kentucky Derby, Indy 500 to up security...
BARNEY FRANK: 'No tax cut would have helped us deal with this'...
FBI SEEKS PHOTOS, VIDEOS...
UPDATE: No other bombs found...
2 men 'speaking Arabic' escorted off plane...
Muslim Brotherhood leader points to conspiracy behind bombing...
After Boston, Congressman Urges Caution on Immigration...
Lawmakers question 'trusted' status for Saudi travelers...

Story of American Diplomat's Death in Afghanistan Changes

From Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard. (emphasis mine)

State Department employee Anne Smedinghoff was killed in Afghanistan last weekend. At first reports suggested the young diplomat was part of an armed convoy that was bombed, but new reports say that she was actually on foot. And that the group she was with got lost on its way to deliver books.

ABC reported earlier in the week:

Afghan security officials told ABC News that the State Department convoy had just left its headquarters in Qalat and joined the convoy of the local provincial governor who was also headed to the school book giveaway.

That's when two suicide attackers attacked the convoy. The security officials said there was an initial car bomb detonated by a remote device. Then a suicide bomber wearing a suicide vest appeared and caused more casualties.

Afghan sources say the school event had been announced a day in advance, which possibly allowed attackers enough time to plan the attack.

And now a local ABC affiliate in Chicago, where Smedinghoff was from, says the diplomat was on foot:

Diplomat Anne Smedinghoff of River Forest was on foot when she was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

Officials said Smedinghoff and her group were on foot and not in an armored vehicle when they were killed last weekend, according to witnesses and U.S. officials interviewed by McClatchy newspapers. One of the witnesses is an Afghan TV reporter who says they were lost while walking from a book-donation event.

The McClatchy report cited by ABC reads:

A promising young U.S. Foreign Service officer, three American soldiers and a civilian government contractor who were killed Saturday in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan probably wouldn’t have been close to the blast if they hadn’t gotten lost while walking to the school where they were to participate in a book-donation ceremony, according to an Afghan television reporter who was with them and was wounded in the attack.

Ahmad Zia Abed, a reporter for Shamshad TV, said he and a videographer from his station were among about a dozen people, including the officer, Anne Smedinghoff, 25, whom American soldiers were escorting on the 200-yard walk from the local headquarters of the U.S.-led Provincial Reconstruction Team to what they thought was the school. A man at the gate said they had the wrong place, though, that this was the provincial agriculture institute.

The group retraced its steps to the American base to figure out what to do next, Abed said. The entrance to the base is just a few feet from the street, he said, and just as they reached it, walking more or less in single file, something slammed into his back and he staggered forward. Disoriented, he saw a car wheel roll past him.

"At first I thought that a car had left the road and struck me," he said. "But then I turned around and saw it had been a bomb."

Abed’s account of the bombing, the most detailed to surface since the explosion, raises new questions about the circumstances that led to the deadliest combat incident in Afghanistan for Americans this year and contradicts what relatives of the victims have said they were told – that Smedinghoff and her military escorts had been in an armored vehicle when it was rammed by a suicide vehicle. Smedinghoff was the first American diplomat to die in Afghanistan during more than 11 years of warfare here.

 

 

Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others

(Reuters) - A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east.

 

The diplomat and other Americans were in a convoy of vehicles in Zabul province when the blast occurred, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement.

The soldiers and the diplomat died in the blast along with a civilian employee of the Defense Department and Afghan civilians, Kerry said. His statement gave no overall death toll.

The Washington Post identified the diplomat as Anne Smedinghoff, 25, citing her parents. Smedinghoff was Kerry's embassy guide and aide when he visited Afghanistan last month, the paper said.

Local and international officials in the region said earlier that six people died in the blast: three U.S. soldiers, two U.S. civilians and an Afghan doctor.

(continue reading at Reuters)

 

 

Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar for Afghan President?

Anyone can run for office and anybody can get elected, same as the United States... Barack Hussein Obama is a prime example.

Via Weasel Zippers:

BERLIN (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told a German newspaper that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could run for president in elections next year.

Karzai’s government has agreed the Taliban can open an office in Qatar if the group breaks all ties with al Qaeda and renounces terrorism. Karzai was in Qatar Sunday to discuss the issue.

Karzai said in an interview published Tuesday by the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that authorities have “sporadic contacts” with the Taliban. He said that the Afghan constitution is valid for all Afghans and “the Taliban also should benefit from it.”

Asked whether Mullah Omar should seek the presidency, Karzai was quoted as saying: “He can become a candidate for the presidency and give Afghans the opportunity to vote for or against him.”

 

(Be sure to read the comments at Weasel Zippers, good stuff)

 

Hamid Karzai was half right

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai claimed earlier this week that the United States is colluding with the enemy to prolong our stay in Afghanistan.  And concerning the new suicide bombings in Kabul and Khost, Karzai said,  “Those bombs, set off yesterday in the name of the Taliban, were in the service of the Americans to keep foreigners longer in Afghanistan.”  I say Karzai is half right.

The United States is currently holding talks with Taliban leaders in Doha, Qatar.  In fact, the United States built a special embassy of sorts for the Taliban there. The planning and negotiations for these talks have been ongoing for a long, long time. 

The Gateway Pundit posts video of former UN Ambassador John Bolton with Greta Van Susteren  stating the Taliban agreed in January to have an office in Doha for peace talks.

So Karzai is nuts when he claims the United States has anything to do with the attacks, planning or executing them, he is not wrong when says the US is colluding with the enemy.  That's what Barack Obama does.

As Leslie H. Gelb at  The Daily Beast says, "To Hell With Karzai".

—stop letting these Karzai guys play us for suckers and speed up our exit, and stop wasting American lives and dollars.  (read it all here)

Amen.

We need to get our military home from Afghanistan and other Muslim countries.  We need to stop every penny of aid we send them.  Not one more penny. 

 

State Department to Spend $250,000 on Afghan YouTube Channel, Had No $$$ for Benghazi Security

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag:

Remember the State Department had no money for Benghazi security because of the mean GOP. But it can always seem to find huge chunks of cash for really stupid things like this.

This “Hope” nonsense smacks of an extension of Obama’s permanent campaign and it’s largely meant to fool Americans into thinking that matters in Afghanistan have improved so much that the departure is not a defeat. That makes this expensive propaganda boondoggle of dubious legality and obvious uselessness.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul plans to spend up to $250,000 in taxpayer money on the creation of a website that will allow people to show how “the Afghanistan of today has provided opportunities that didn’t exist before.”

The stand-alone website — or dedicated YouTube channel — must give people in Afghanistan and around the world the ability to upload short, personally recorded videos “describing why and how the individual is contributing to the betterment of Afghanistan and/or the ways in which the Afghanistan of today has provided opportunities that didn’t exist before, and offering messages of hope for the country’s future.”

Can I just put in my own bid here?

For a mere $2.50, I will create a YouTube channel called Afghan Hope and Change that will feature anonymous people in Burkas explaining how their life is better now that Obama has decided to hand over Afghanistan to the Taliban.

(Continue reading at FrontPageMag)

After Afghanistan

Daniel Greenfield, in his own unique way, cuts right to the heart of an issue.  Below is an excerpt from his latest, After Afghanistan, but it is about so much more.

 

Some wars are lost in a matter of moments, others stretch on indefinitely. The defeat in Afghanistan crept up silently on the national consciousness and even though we are negotiating with the Taliban, the "D" word is hardly used by anyone.
 

According to Obama, in one of his interminable speeches which all run together and sound the same, there really isn't a war, just a mission, and the old mission is now becoming a new sort of mission, and the missions, all of them, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, have been successful which is why we are wrapping them up, except that we aren't really. And that's about as clear as the message from the big white building with the neatly mowed lawn out front gets, except for the part about how its occupant singlehandedly parachuted into Pakistan, killed Bin Laden, and then stopped off for some curry and a humanitarian award.  [snip]

Both Bush and Obama largely missed the point of September 11, which is that it matters less how many training camps Al Qaeda has in some desert where there are more drugs and RPGs than people, but how many operatives they have in the United States. The terrorist attacks carried out by Al Qaeda in America all required that their operatives either be in the United States or have permission to enter it. The truly dangerous training camps aren't in Mali or in Afghanistan; they are in Jersey City and Minneapolis. The easiest way to stop the next Al Qaeda terrorist attack is to end immigration from the Muslim world. 

 (read it all at Sultan Knish Blog)

 

Emphasis mine.

 

Deadliest sniper in U.S. military history is 'shot and killed point-blank by veteran suffering from PTSD' at Texas gun range

Daily Mail:

• Ex-Navy Seal and New York Times best-selling author Chris Kyle, 39, was  reportedly shot along with another man
  
• The suspect, 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh, is in police custody after he fled the scene in Kyle's car
• Kyle is a husband and father of two who served four tours in Iraq and holds the U.S. military record for most sniper kills

A former Navy Seal, expert sniper and best-selling author was reportedly gunned down at a Texas shooting range Saturday by a veteran who is recovering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Ex-Navy Seal Chris Kyle, 39, and another man were shot point-blank around 3:30 p.m. at a charity event on behalf of Kyle's security firm at the gun range at Rough Creek Lodge and Resort in Erath County. 

The suspect, 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh, was arrested roughly five hours later in Lancaster, Texas after a police chase. He was driving Kyle's truck at the time of the arrest, police said.

Ex-Navy Seal Chris Kyle, author of 'American Sniper,' and a neighbor of his were shot point-blank by another veteran

 

Kyle, 39, served four tours in Irag and he was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, and one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation

While in Iraq, Kyle survived being shot twice and he lived through six separate IED explosions as his unit, Charlie company of SEAL Team Three, saw significant combat

Investigators told ABC affiliate WFAA-TV that Routh is a former Marine who was suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Kyle, a husband and father of two, authored the New York Times best-seller 'American Sniper,' which chronicled his four tours in Iraq. The book hit shelves last month.

He recorded more than 150 sniper kills - the most in U.S. military history - between 1999 and 2009.

(continue reading, more images at UK Daily Mail)

ANOTHER TIME, OUR MEN WILL EAT

From Sultan Knish, Daniel Greenfield, and his Friday Round up, here.  Read the full article on not feeding our military at FrontPageMag.

The Army has stopped serving cooked breakfasts to some of the U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan as part of its drawdown, a move that prompted troops to write home asking their families and friends to send care packages with cereal, breakfast bars and other foods.

Meanwhile here is what Obama and his corrupt cronies had for their inaugural lunch. Steamed Lobster with New England Clam Chowder Sauce, Sautéed Spinach, Sweet Potato Hay Second Course: Hickory-Grilled Bison with Red Potato Horseradish Cake, Butternut Squash Purée, Baby Golden Beets.

If only American soldiers in Afghanistan were unemployed Democratic voters in Chicago, then they might be getting three square meals a day from the government.

Obama Eliminates Breakfast for US Troops in Afghanistan, Stuffs Own Face

Amazing.