HOT MEALS, Sandwiches Denied to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan!

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Obama is thumbing his nose at our troops

"And that’s why, on this day, we remember our sacred obligation to those who laid down their lives so we could live ours:  to finish the job these men and women started by keeping our promise to those who wear America’s uniform — to give our troops the resources they need; to keep faith with our veterans and their families, now and always;"
Barack Obama - Memorial Day, May 27, 2013 Speech at Arlington National Cemetery [Transcript]

Throughout his Presidency, President Barack Obama has managed to say the right things about our military men and women. He speaks of their bravery, character, sacrifice, and of the obligation of making sure that our active duty and veterans are rightfully cared for.  That is, he says the right things. His actions, though, betray his words.  They are hollow and disingenuous.

Read: Obama's Latest Lie To Veterans

His latest betrayal of our fighting men and women is to cut the hot meals and sandwiches at midnight (midrats) for Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan.  For those coming off six and a half hours on patrol and those preparing to go out on patrol, starting today those men and women will be limited to breaking open an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) pouch, usually reserved for quick bites out in the field.

As you can imagine, the decision is less-than-popular with the men and women on the ground in Afghanistan. As one Marine wrote to his wife at home:

"This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places. Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours.”

Spaghetti and meat sauce MRE - Mmmmm!

According to military brass, the move is part of the drawdown of troops from Afghanistan. What a steaming pantload! You don't cut meals for the troops, especially as their numbers are reduced!

Read: New York disenfranchising its 320,000 military servicemen and women overseas - still hasn’t mailed out absentee ballots to all!!

Barack Obama has shown time and again his disdain for our military, and the men and women who serve.  He is more than happy to use them for photo ops, but when it comes to really standing with them, he has been AWOL at every turn.  Whether it be raising healthcare premiums for military (while leaving Union healthcare untouched)[Read article], labeling the terrorist attack on Fort Hood  "workplace violence" (which denies disability benefits to the victims), failing to return salutes to Marines on Chopper One, relegating them to 'Boy Friday' status and having them hold his umbrella over his head (in which he even joked about it being a good photo op), to failing to ensure that 2012 election ballots were delivered to hundreds of thousands of military men and women in overseas deployments. 

This President and his Administration have failed our brave fighting men and women at every turn.

Disgraceful.

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REALLY? Gen. Says Attacks On U.S. Troops Caused By Ramadan Fasting

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Yeah, General, that's it! Afghanis are attacking U.S. Soldiers because they are hungry.

Sooooo...why are they only attacking U.S. soldiers, and not members of the Afghan forces and police?

Maybe the answer is that they are islamists, and what better time to commit jihad than during the time of prayer and fasting.

Please don't insult our intelligence, General Allen.

U.S. General Links Spike in ‘Insider Attacks’ to Stress of Ramadan Fasting
By Patrick Goodenough August 24, 2012

(CNSNews.com) – The commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan on Thursday cited the stress of fasting during Ramadan – which fell at the height of summer this year – as one possible reason for a spike in “insider attacks” on U.S. troops. However, the Muslim fast month historically has been associated with jihad.
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Islamist Beheads Ex-Wife, Children In "Honor Killing"

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Bringing to 16 the number of "honor killings" over a two month span in Afghanistan, the practice is growing in frequency.  The latest victims are an ex-wife and two of their three children, whose "dishonor was that they saw their father butcher their 30-year-old mother.

Some blame Hamid Karzai's inattention to women's rights, including his endorsement of a strict Islamic Sharia "code of conduct" for Afghan's, which allows men to beat their wives.

I blame Sharia, the Quran, and Islamist societies that are forever stuck in 6th century tribal "justice".

But, then again, I'm just some crazy right-wing Islamophobe who is appalled that so-called enlightened leftists attack the messenger, while being silent in the face of actual atrocities.  While innocent women and children are oppressed and murdered under the guise of a so-called "peaceful" religion, bourgeoisie  leftists stir up fear over a people like me who disagree with anthropogenic "Global Warming, "greenhouse gasses", and whether we spend enough on bike lanes in their communities.

Meanwhile, groups like CAIR and ISNA work tirelessly to bring Sharia law to the United States.  A Muslim Congressman proposes modeling U.S. schools after Islamic madrassas. Yet, any opposition to these things are met with ridicule and disdain by leftists as "unenlightened, scare mongering, and bigoted.

I view it as entering the coming battle with my eyes wide open.

'Honour killing' of mother, 30, beheaded by her ex-husband... who then decapitated their two young children because they'd watched
Boy, eight, and girl, nine killed in horrific execution Father decided to spare their two-year-old daughter

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER PUBLISHED: 12:52 EST, 4 July 2012 | UPDATED: 13:42 EST, 4 July 2012

A 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded overnight in Afghanistan's east, police said, in what appeared to be the latest in a rapidly growing trend of so-called honour killings.

Police said they suspected the woman Serata's divorced husband of barging into her house in the capital of Ghazni province and murdering her, alongside their eight-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter.
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US's Afghanistan Interrogation Policy Getting Soldiers Killed?

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'THE CLAPPER MEMO': NEW BOOK SHOWS HOW BUREAUCRATIC AFGHANISTAN POLICY KILLS U.S. SOLDIERS


H/T Breitbart
More than 500 days ago, Breitbart News' Big Peace published my article, Special Forces Units Ignore Bureaucratic Memo and Save Lives. Today, I'm only a few months away from publishing The Clapper Memo, my second nonfiction book in which I expose how that memo, signed by the man who now serves as our nation's top intelligence official, is likely resulting in the deaths of dozens of American soldiers in Afghanistan.
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Obama In Kabul: Taliban: We've Turned The Tide", Taliban Bombs Kabul Compound

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Attack in Response To Obama Visit, Taliban Says

A day after saying that he was not using the anniversary of Bin Laden's death as a campaign issue, the President headed to Kabul Afghanistan for a victory lap, once again using the U.S. military as a PR backdrop for an eleven-minute speech.

Obama stated, "Over the last three years, the tide has turned.  We broke the Taliban's momentum. We've built strong Afghan security forces."  In an ironic twist, a few hour later the Taliban attacked a compound housing foreign contractors, killing seven.  Karma's a bitch!


Obama also fell back into his narcissistic ways, saying "The goal that I set – to defeat al-Qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild – is now within our reach.” The goal that he set? I guess this is another issue where Bush will not get any credit.  Obama reserves only blame and derision for his predecessor.  But let's not forget that it was the Bush policies of rendition and advanced interrogation techniques (ie. waterboarding) that allowed us to get the information which identified the courier who led us to the Abattabad compound where Bin Laden was holed up.


Regardless of what Obama said, this was a campaign stop.  He's trying to burnish his credentials of being a pro-military President, while his policies and words indicated a lukewarm tolerance of our men and women in uniform.


While some, like Chris Matthews, saw this trip as reminiscent of Henry V of England rallying the troops, the Taliban must have seen Neville Chamberlain, while sending Obama a message of their own.


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BREAKING!! Panetta Lands in Afghanistan, Car Bomb Explodes On Tarmac

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'Car Bomb' As Panetta Lands In Afghanistan

A suspected car bomb attack has taken place at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, Sky Sources have revealed.

The explosion came as US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta flew into Camp Bastion. It is believed that Mr Panetta was still landing or had landed at the time of the alleged attack, but it is not clear if he was a target.

Sky's Stuart Ramsay said the explosion was caused when a vehicle drove on to the runway either during or after the landing.

Sky Sources have been told the explosion was caused by the driver of the vehicle. An investigation has now been launched into the driver's identity.

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Obama & Media Omit That Burned Quran's Were 'Defaced' With Taliban Messages

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While President Obama was out kissing Hamid Karzai's ass for the burning of Quran's by U.S. troops, he and the media were spinning the story by omitting a crucial fact - that the Quran's had been defiled by Taliban prisoners who had used their "holy" books to pass messages.  Obama had to know this information at the time that he was twisting himself into a pretzel to kowtow to a bunch of people who choose to remain living in 11th century living conditions.
Obama is only too quick to show America as bending over and grabbing our collective ankles every time the military is perceived by some tin-pot dictator to have committed a foreign policy faux pas.
If anything, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai should be apologizing to the United States for the deaths of four servicemen by a country of crazed religious lunatics and savages.
The only thing that America should apologize for is that we elected this sorry SOB to be our President.

Why Is the U.S. Apologizing for Scorched Qurans?
Diane West

I've got it.

We've come a long way since the days of the Global War on Terror. Frankly, the GWOT -- whatever that was supposed to mean (how do you fight against a tactic?) -- is so 10 years ago. "Terror," meanwhile, has morphed into "extremism," but that's only made things more unclear. We still don't know what it's all supposed to be about.

Until today.

Mr. and Mrs. America, boys and girls, welcome to the Global War on Quran-Burning, as led by the United States Masochists To Make the World Safe for Shariah (Islamic law).

If a column could have special effects, this is where piercing beams of sunlight would dispel clouds of confusion as pink bunnies jump up and down, squeaking, "That's it, that's it!" And a sigh of relief would spread across the happy valley ...
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Obama’s Peace Partners, the Taliban, Attack Bagram Air Base on New Year’s Eve

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Note to Ron Paul: This is what "reaching out" and "offering friendship" to our enemies brings - a perception on their part that we are weak, and continued attacks. You don't offer your enemies friendship. You defeat them with overwhelming, disproportionate force, thoroughly demoralizing them until they lose the will to fight and beg you to accept their surrender.  Remember the videos of shell-shocked Iraqi soldiers surrendering to news crews and US soldiers in Gulf War 1, their fighting spirit totally broken? That is what victory looks like.

From the Gateway Pundit:

“Look, the Taliban, per se, is not our enemy.”
- VP Joe Biden
December 2011

Two weeks ago the White House told us that the Taliban was not our enemy.

Iran Press TV reported that nine missiles were launched in the attack on Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. There were initial reports of several casualties.

UPDATE: Press TV has more on the attack:

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Pentagon Tells Army To Remove Cross From Worship Tent, It Offends Atheists

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Liberal PC insanity strikes again! G_d forbid that we have a cross on a HOUSE OF WORSHIP! What the hell ever happened to changing the channel, or not looking at something that offends you? Or how about just being tolerant of other peoples beliefs, which seems to me, many atheists are incapable of doing.

Liberal Policy: Pentagon Forces US Army Post in Afghanistan to Remove Cross

What a bonanza!
Liberals find a way to insult Christians and the military with one easy policy change.


The Pentagon forced an Army post in Afghanistan to remove a cross on its worship tent. It’s offensive to liberal atheists.
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TAPS: 25 Navy SEALS Killed In Afghanistan

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My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the 38 who were killed in the the crash of a Chinnook helicopter in eastern Afghanistan.  The members were apparently part of a raid when it was reportedly shot down by Taliban fighters, who have claimed responsibility for the act. This is another sad reminder of the sacrifices that our brave men and women make every single day for the security of not only our country, but in unselfishly defending those who have not the means to defend themselves in far away countries from tyrannical religious zealots and despots.
Well done, good and faithful servants.  Enter into your rest.



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