Combat Heroes do not seek credit!

It is Combat Heroes who put their lives on the line! 

True Combat Heroes do not politicize their acts of valor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JsrSAqRrCc0 

The current resident of the White House continue to employ mass TV advertisements, continues to do multiple TV specials/interviews, and initiated a live national broadcast from the “safety’ of  the largest secure combat base in Afghanistan, about what “I”. “Me”, “HE” did.  While those personnel in the Special Operations community of the military know, President Bush initiated a well-coordinated program 10 years ago, to execute a worldwide intelligence gathering mission, to approve a skillful enhanced interrogation operation to patiently & persistently extract information from captured terrorists in the Brig at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Cuba, and it took many years of training and dangerous combat operations for members of SEAL Team SIX to become fully prepared for the operation he continues to brag about.  According to senior Flag Officers in the Pentagon, it was the skillful planning by SEAL Admiral William McRaven, Commander of the Joint Operations Command (JSOC), and many weeks of painstaking precision rehearsals by SEAL Team SIX, that led Admiral McRaven “to decide” to execute the mission.  That operation had to be approved by the person who keeps spiking the football.  No other US President in 235 years has ever tried to shamelessly take a substantial amount of credit for what the military does in very dangerous and risky Special Operations in Combat.  “He”, “I”, Me” continues to spike the football in the end zone when he wasn’t even on the field, yet continues, tongue in cheek, relentless decreases the Defense Budget, is increasing the charge to military personnel & Veterans over the next 2 years for their health care by 300%, and is marginalizing the finest US Military establishment in history by instilling touchy feely social programs, which are negatively affecting unit cohesion, military discipline, and combat effectiveness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JsrSAqRrCc0 

In Investor Business http://news.investors.com/Article.aspx?id=603583&p=1&ibdbot=1, it was reported that President Obama plans to share sensitive Aegis ballistic missile defense data with Russia; this was very disturbing article for me to read after the loss of so many of my classmates and men I served with in defense of the Republic.  In the follow on letter dated March 26, 2012, Congressman Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, asks the President for an “urgent explanation of [his] comments to President Medvedev in Seoul, where the president stated in regard to missile defense in Europe that “this is my last election, and after my election I'll have more flexibility.”  “As the Chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, which authorizes U.S. missile defense and nuclear weapons policy, I want to make it perfectly clear that my colleagues and I will not allow any attempts to trade missile defense of the United States to Russia or any other country,” wrote Turner.

Congress has included in the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which the president has signed into law, a provision constraining his ability to share classified U.S. missile defense information with the Russian Federation. Congress took this step because it was clear based upon official testimony and the Obama Administration’s comments in the press that classified information about U.S. missile defenses, including hit-to-kill technology and velocity at burnout information, may be on the table as negotiating leverage for President Obama’s reset with Russia.  

“Despite signing the FY12 defense authorization legislation into law, you then issued a signing statement signaling that you may treat the provision protecting U.S. missile defense information as non-binding.  This morning’s comments, on top of that action, suggests that you and your administration have plans for U.S. missile defenses that you believe will not stand up to electoral scrutiny,” added Turner.

Please listen to the President’s own words by clicking on this link www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI0DYcHtTlI ; he says he will have no restrictions on negotiating US Missile Defense issues with Russia after the election.  My first thought was, what else will he have no restrictions on doing to the Free Enterprise System and this delicate Republic in violation of Congressional measures signed into law and in violation of the precepts of the US Constitution after the election? 

By clicking on the below listed link of a press release from the White House Press Office, you will be able to read the Presidential Executive Order that was released late on Friday evening.  This new Presidential Executive Order is different in context and definition from similar Presidential Executive Orders issued by previous residents of the White House.  It includes an overly broad definition of National Defense, and for the first time in the General Provisions section of the order, Part VIII, Section 801 (j), it allows for emergency preparedness activities conducted pursuant to title VI of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5195 which permits the President to declare Martial Law when the country is not in times of war.  The Republic can still be safeguarded by Congressional action if the Congress is able to come together to act, and if the media establishment will do its duty to alert the American people in advance of the enactment of Section 801 (j). 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our (the United States) overthrow.  Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter.  From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.  I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing." - Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837

Under a new ordered Obama Health Care Bill mandate, that was just issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), HHS is mandating that religious employers provide health care coverage for contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs at no cost -- thereby trampling upon the religious employer’s constitutionally guaranteed free exercise of religion.  If you review the below listed article, the Social Experiment On Diversity driven by the civilian appointees of the Obama Administration at the US Defense Department (DOD) continues to expand; it is now forcing US Army Chaplains to violate their religious consciences and freedom of speech by preventing them from telling their parishioners from the pulpit that they oppose mandating catholic run institutions to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs for their employees at the religious institution’s own expense, even though their religion opposes that action.  That is a clear violation of the freedom of religion that the U.S. Constitution guarantees.  The Social Experiment On Diversity is also responsible for Military Academies’ admission policies that are a clear violation of a Supreme Court’s ruling, that entering students at all institutions of higher education shall no longer be admitted by allocating acceptance percentages using race and gender as one of their criteria. 

If you have a daughter or granddaughter, this latest, never ending expansion by the Obama Administration’s Social Experiment on Diversity in the below listed article, driven by the Obama Administration’s civilian appointees at the Department of Defense will concern you.  Assigning women to direct combat will eliminate the rational why the US Supreme Court exempted young women from Selective Service registration, which the court upheld as Constitutional, because women were not assigned to direct ground combat.   By changing the policy, the Department of Defense is inviting another ACLU lawsuit challenging young women's exemption from Selective Service registration.   Every day another shoe drops in the never ending Social Experiment on Diversity driven by the Obama Administration; the constant assault on the US Military establishment is negatively affecting combat effectiveness and continues to skew the admission policies forced upon the Boards of Admission at US Service Academies.

— On Dec. 18, Tribune-Democrat Editor Chip Minemyer called for someone in our military to step forward and acknowledge that “Murtha got it right” on Haditha.

He cites a New York Times report that classified documents found on an abandoned base in Iraq “support assertions by the late congressman that Marines – stressed to the breaking point by the nature of that conflict  – killed 24 people, including women and children, on Nov. 19, 2005.”

Mr. Minemyer is dead wrong. The only fact in his assertion that the documents confirm is that 24 people, including women and children, were killed in a combat engagement on that day.

A review of the documents on the Times website reveals there is absolutely nothing to support the late congressman’s repeated and breathless assertions that Marines “murdered innocent civilians in cold blood” – long before the investigation was completed. 

But the interviews with members of the chain-of-command – which the Times did publish – do confirm what I asserted throughout my campaigns against John Murtha:

That there was a continuing and concerted effort on the part of the Islamic insurgents to create a My Lai-type incident as part of their information operations (called “IO” by Marines interviewed) at the height of the war in Iraq. 

The interviews also document the Marines’ frustration with the number of civilian casualties and confirm the efforts of the enemy to put civilians in harm’s way, in order to have civilian casualties that could be photographed and displayed in both the United States and the Middle East to discredit the American war effort. 

The true effects of Murtha’s comments were characterized in my interview on Fox News’ “Happening Now” on April 8, 2008 (posted on YouTube):

“… when he threw the Haditha Marines under the bus, he put the United States Congress’ ‘stamp of approval’ on enemy propaganda. And certainly John Murtha, of all people, should understand this. 

“Having served as an intelligence officer in Vietnam, he should understand enemy propaganda; as a savvy politician, he should understand propaganda … and when he takes the enemy’s story, puts it out as the gospel truth, accuses our Marines of ‘cold-blooded murder,’ he has reinforced their message on the Arab street and undermined the support for the troops at home.”

This interview put the lock on Murtha’s political cage; it  was created by the candidacy of an Iraq War veteran for his seat. He remained silent in the public debate on the Iraq War issue – until his last interview with The Tribune-Democrat the week before his death in February 2010.

The incidents at Haditha occurred at a time and place where the insurgents were pursuing a strategy that included the tactic of using human shields in the cross-fire between themselves and U.S. forces. 

It remains a terrible tragedy that approximately half of the Iraqis who were killed in that firefight were innocents who were inserted into the cross fire by the insurgents. 

Whether they died as a result of insurgent gunfire or U.S. gunfire is irrelevant. The innocents died because the insurgents had a tactic of using human shields while trying to kill Americans, in order to cause civilian deaths and produce the kind of propaganda Murtha endorsed. 

The fact also remains that seven of the eight Haditha Marines were not only found “not guilty,” but they have been fully exonerated.

In the case of Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt (one of Murtha’s own constituents), he was found to have conducted himself to the highest standards of the Corps for a Marine in combat. 

The eighth Haditha Marine, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, is still awaiting trial. The politically appointed leadership at the Department of Defense will not dismiss the charges against Sgt. Wuterich because of the political liability to the current administration. 

Highly ironic, given that even John Hugya, Murtha’s former chief of staff, has acknowledged that Murtha got it wrong by calling for Wuterich to be exonerated last October.

Also ironic, is the Obama administration stating that one of the major issues preventing the United States from maintaining a presence in Iraq was the Iraqi refusal to allow American forces to maintain immunity from Iraqi law.

The major issue raised by the Iraqis: Haditha.

After all, how could they trust America’s military court system when it acquitted seven Marines whom a senior U.S. congressman and military veteran had already    pronounced as guilty of murder? 

The strategic military and economic vulnerabilities created by our abrupt and poorly planned withdrawal from Iraq all have a direct cause that can be attributed to Murtha. 

In spite of the evidence that he was wrong while he was alive, Murtha never apologized to the Marines he falsely accused, and went to his grave defiant and unapologetic. 

This is, and should remain, his legacy.

Minemyer’s suggestion to rehabilitate Murtha’s reputation by having the Department of Defense say “Murtha was right about Haditha” would only smear, denigrate and insult the brave sacrifices of the men and women who gave their lives and limbs in their service to this nation in Iraq. 

William T. Russell is a former Republican candidate for the 12th Congressional District seat formerly held by John Murtha. He is an internationally published columnist and has been a featured guest on a number of national television and radio news shows. He is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and veteran of Desert Storm, the Iraq War, and the Balkans. He and his wife, Kasia, were both in the Pentagon on 9/11.

“There Are Two Ways To Enslave A Country.... One Is By The Sword. The Other Is By Debt." — John Adams

Please click on the below listed link to view a video which will explain exactly what President Obama has in mind for the Republic.                   http://www.youtube.com/v/LdTyUvY66Mw?version=3

The American voters must elect an “Optimist”, a new President with President Ronal Reagan’s “optimism”, who will approach the desperate situation President Obama has placed the Republic in.  Obama’s flawed judgment, mismanagement, and determination to “change” the tested 235 year successful Free Enterprise System into another failed Socialist State has placed the Republic in very serious danger.   We need a new President who can look past the despair the American people feel, and view the current situation as an excellent opportunity to improve the economy in just about every sector that the Obama Administration has destabilized.    

Respectfully,
Joseph R. John
Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

The Washington Post August 18, 2011

Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner) 

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most  consequential job?    Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present") ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?  

Dear Friend,

I want to pose a question to you: “Are America’s best days now behind us or ahead of us?”

I strongly believe we can and must do better to ensure that our Nation’s best days still lay ahead. But there are some who powerfully argue that we are in the twilight of America’s years.

They say that President Obama and his allies’ massive big government expansion is so damaging and irreversible that it has forever stifled the ingenuity, energy and free enterprise spirit that built this great nation.

They proclaim that because President Obama’s tripling of the deficit to $1.6 trillion and the course he has charted to double the national debt, we must now recalibrate our hopes for our nation and our children.

They point to the government healthcare takeover, the failed economic
stimulus program, and the astounding expansion of government and say that because
we spent so lavishly on ourselves and saddled our children with crushing debts that
we have sentenced them to a lower standard of living. They sadly say that ours will
be the first generation of Americans that does not hope for a better life for our
children and our grandchildren.

Ominously, they also show the figures that demonstrate that despite President
Obama’s decision to OK the mission to eliminate Osama bin Laden, the President has
so slashed defense spending and weakened our defenses that we will fall behind the
Chinese and Russians and see our power and influence in the world forever eclipsed
while the dangers around us grow.

Has Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on the hill” gone dark? Are we rapidly
losing our place as the freest, most generous, most productive nation on Earth that
has stood for freedom and lifted the fate not only of its own people but of billions of
others around the globe?

While it is clear that America is in dire straits, I strongly reject the idea that
America’s best days are behind us.

In the coming election, if we can capture not only the White House but also
take control of Congress, we can turn our nation’s course and leave a better America
to our children and grandchildren. However, such a victory will be a huge challenge.
At the close of President Jimmy Carter’s presidency when there was doubledigit
inflation and interest rates and our defenses had seriously deteriorated, there
were similar questions about whether America could ever look forward again to
greatness.

We very well could have entered a long period of further serious decline if it
were not for the election of Ronald Reagan with the Republican takeover of the Senate
and critical gains in the House.

If we are to rescue America we must elect men and women to both houses of
Congress who understand that peace comes through American strength but who are
also individuals of integrity and courage.

We need men and women who will serve this country in Congress who can
stand the withering attacks of the far left special interests and have the courage of
their convictions to do what is right for America.

We cannot and must not have men and women who promise to set America on
a course to restore our economic and national security but who are co-opted and
compromised once they come to Washington.

I know of a unique breed of Americans who have demonstrated they have the
integrity, courage and convictions to help restore America’s greatness and who have
demonstrated they can withstand more than the attacks they will encounter as a
member of the House or Senate.

They are America’s Combat Veterans. These brave men and women who have
fought on the frontlines for America are just the people we need in office.
Increasingly we are seeing a growing number of fiscally conservative Combat
Veterans seeking election to Congress and I believe that America needs these battletested
individuals in Congress.

It is going to take enormous courage to turn America away from the failed
course it is now on and we urgently need these special individuals who will help
wage this historic battle for us. That is why, I want to ask you to join me in
supporting the Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee.
(www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org)

More than just electing men and women who promise to stand strong for
America, this is the one political action committee that only supports individuals who
have already proven their commitment to this country under the most difficult
conditions.

The Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee (CVFC) is
headed by Retired Navy Captain Joe John who served in Vietnam, Desert Storm and 9
Counter Terrorist Operations and was a Counter Terrorist Intelligence Analyst with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He and his Board of Directors, which
includes Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, USMC (Ret.), a friend of mine whom I met while a
POW in Vietnam, do not receive a dollar in compensation and do this solely for the
sake of our nation.

Started in August 2009, the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC made a
significant impact in the 2010 mid-term election. Twenty-seven of the endorsed
Combat Veterans For Congress won their primary races and they are listed on the
CVFC website.

Included in the 87 new freshmen members of Congress who were sworn into
office earlier this year, 12 were among the 27 battle hardened candidates that CVFC
supported during the 2010 primaries. I expect these 12, who have demonstrated their
love of this country and are committed fiscal conservatives, to be leaders in the fight
to restore fiscal sanity to our nation and repair our defenses.

If you, like me, are outraged that at a time when 43 cents of every dollar the
federal government spends is borrowed, the government is rapidly expanding and
increasingly intruding on our lives and freedoms and our nation’s defense are being
exhausted and not adequately replenished, I urge you to join me in supporting
Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee.

Often when you give your hard earned dollars to a political action committee,
you do not know very much about the candidates who will ultimately benefit from
your support.

This is not the case with the Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action
Committee. You can be sure that every dollar you donate will go to individuals who,
as the CVFC motto says, have “Embedded Integrity.” When CVFC candidates say
they are fiscal conservatives that will work to return us to a nation of limited
government they mean it. They also will be individuals with the courage to stand up
to the bullying of the liberals and the smear tactics of their allies. They possess
extraordinary patriotism that will guide each of their decisions.

If you agree that at this most critical moment in our nation’s history when our
nation’s finances have been grossly mismanaged, our freedoms infringed and our
defenses made vulnerable, we need a new breed of extraordinarily patriotic men and
women serving in Congress, I urge you to make the most generous contribution
possible.

I believe that with quality men and women CVFC is helping to elect, we will
not only redirect this nation but we will definitively answer that America’s best days
are not behind us but truly lay before us.

Your dollars will enable these Combat Veteran For Congress to purchase the
television and radio advertisements they need to win. Your dollars will also help
them to organize voters in their districts and states and counter the massive voter turn
out efforts by the far left special interests in this nation.

Again, this is the one political contribution you can make that you can be
absolutely sure will support fiscal conservatives with the convictions and courage to limit
government and rebuild our nation’s defense. If we are going to elect these Combat
Veterans, CVFC needs your support today. Time is short. Please answer right away.

Sincerely,

John McCain
United States Senator

P.S. I believe the 2012 election will decide the fate of this nation for a long time to come.
This nation is terribly off on the wrong track. If we are going to put us back on a path to
prosperity and security, we are going to need to return to our Founding Father’s uniquely
American vision of fiscal responsibility and limited government. To do that we need men
and women who have fought for the flag of this nation. That is why I am going to say to
you that the most important lapel pin you can wear in this election is not a campaign
button but the American flag. If you will join in supporting CVFC today, Captain Joe
John will send you a special American flag lapel pin that I hope you will wear with
enormous pride since you will know that you are helping to insure that America’s best
days are indeed before us.

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ACTION COMMITTEE. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE NOT DEDUCTIBLE AS
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS.

This letter is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. Contributions
by corporations and foreign nationals are prohibited. Contributions by individuals are
limited to $5,000 per calendar year.