I received this chain email a few minutes ago. I didnt write it and dont know who did. I dont know whether every fact is true but I agree with the intent of the text. Read it and judge for yourselves. For several years I was part of a Coffee Group that would meet 5 days a week at a Sub-Way Shop near the entrance to Ft. Riley, KS. We always greeted the Military men and women in the shop with a Good Morning and theyd respond with a Sir. Wed ask them all kinds of questions-where is your home, how long ya been in the service, whats that rank mean,your fatigue uniform sure has enough pockets, looks like 18 wow, did you have PT this morning, about how far did you run? We would see some of them regularly, and sometimes paid their tab, our way of saying thanks. Sometimes theyd tell us they were deploying in a few days, shake hands and wed wish them good luck, God Bless. Those words sometimes would not come out easily. Their tour was generally 1 year. Wed ask, Are you coming back to this post? And wed wonder if wed see them again. When you have a close relationship with our Military you become more aware of their mission and would feel concern for their safe return. I worry about the leadership of our country, I question their judgment. Read the following--- If you are not a veteran send this to those that you know who are, or to those who may know veterans. A movement has been started by our armed forces to get out the vote in 2014. They are organizing themselves, but this can be done by all of us. The President, the Commander in Chief, has made the Rules of Engagement (ROE) so difficult, that our troops are often killed before they can even get permission to fight. Nothing has been done to stop our troops from being murdered by the Afghanis they are training, either. Now, the President wants the US to sign on to the UNs International Criminal Court (ICC), which would allow the UNs ICC to arrest and try US troops for War Crimes, without the legal protections guaranteed under US Law, and from which there is no appeal. The President, with his Democratic control of the Senate, has nearly all the power. If the Non-Establishment Republicans, (and Conservatives) can take back the Senate in 2014, our troops can once again be protected from unnecessary danger. Interestingly enough, when GWB was president you heard about the military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan almost daily. With Obama in the White House, the mainstream media has been strangely quiet. --- More than 1,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in I received thisthe last 27 months. This is more than the combined total of the nine years before. Thirty have died in August. During the last month, over 50 additional NATO and US servicemen have been murdered, inside jobs by those who are hired to be a force for good in Afghanistan. The commander in chief is AWOL. Not a peep, although he ordered the White House flag flown at half-staff for the Sikhs that were killed. There is a deep disgust, a fury, growing in the ranks of the military against the indifference and incompetence of this president. It has taken on a dangerous tone. No one knows what to do about him, but the anger runs deep as the deaths continue with no strategic end in sight to the idiocy of this war. Obama has had 5 years to end this futile insanity, during which time he has vacationed, golfed, campaigned, and generally ignored the plight of our men and women in uniform. But, there is now a movement afoot in the armed services to launch a massive get out the vote drive against this president. Not just current active duty types, but the National Guard, Reserves, the retired, and all other prior service members. This is no small special interest group, but many millions of veterans who can have an enormous impact on the outcome of the November election if they all respond. The one million military retirees in Florida alone could mean an overwhelming victory in that state if they all show up at the polls. It might not keep another one hundred U.S. troops from dying between now and November, but a turn out to vote by the military against this heart breaking lack of leadership can make a powerful statement that hastens a change to the indifference of this shallow little man who just lets our soldiers die.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:42:05 +0000
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