sye Loc: The Old Dominion Near DC

This was sent to me from a good friend who is retired US Army. I didn't retire but I spent 8 years in the Army.


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I hope anyone who has military background, or is an American, will forward this.
If you are not a veteran send this to those that you know who are, or to those who may know veterans.

(The 2014 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested in this election. Get out and VOTE!!)

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 Golfer 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 UN's 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. Please consider this, and send it on to your mailing lists.


Thank You.


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 the 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 ..
A reinforced Marine battalion is +/- 1000 men.
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 indifferent 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 4 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.

Veterans: Please forward to your lists. High Priority!

In God We Trust.

Shakey Loc: Traveling again to Norway and other places.

I recall an incident, years ago, I think it was Libya, a British MP corporal was on duty at an allied American/British base. A truck approached the check point at speed. The corporal signalled the driver to stop but the guy kept coming. The corporal shouted a warning and aimed his weapon. The driver ignored him and accelerated. The corporal opened fire killing the driver instantly. The truck was loaded with explosives. A mobile bomb. I heard nothing more about any action against the corporal. On a visit to the UK I got talking to a serving British sergeant on what would have happened to the corporal under British law. He said that under their rules of engagement the corporal did the right thing but he would have been court martialled if he had not opened fire. Now that makes sense to me. What are our rules of engagement?

RS Loc: W Columbia, SC

What ever happened to what seemed to be policy back in the 'good-ol'-days' when the person who was to be Commander-in-Chief had at least SOME military background? Maybe that should be one of the prerequisites to running for president... Ooops!! But then, the Palin's and Hillary's wouldn't be allowed to run. Oh, well . . .

Sandie

Look, I am no friend of the POTUS but comparing him to Bush is nonsense so far as published deaths in
Afghanistan since GWB got us into this war we should never have been in really esp in IRAQ. There were many more deaths in GWB time than Obama's. WE need to be out of this war, slim down our troops(most were reserve units that went over there and were Unprepared) and stop minding other people's business. We have issues here in the good USofA to solve and people starving here. We need to stop the flow of illegals into the country, and make sure all our citizens do get health care but Obamacare is horrible!!!
The one thing that war has gotten us is the kids off the streets of America and they are overseas in the service but they do come home and they are not well trained to do much on the civilian side of things so lets get our kids training and jobs and off welfare and have them stop complaining because they are not handed things on a silver platter which seems to worsen if they did go into the service but even without service time these kids think we all owe them a living. NOT!

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

That is quite a post and I know you believe it in your heart. Having said that, my understanding is more American troops have been killed AFTER Obama took office than when George Bush was in office.

Obama is certainly slimming down our military to the point that some of our front line mid level management troops, Captains and Majors, are receiving notices now, while on the battlefield, that their services will no longer be required after they return to the United States. If that was you receiving the notice how would you feel? Here you are in a war, fighting the enemy, and you receive a pink slip saying, Go on fighting for now, keep putting your life on the line for now but when you get home at the end of your tour your military service is over. Do we not owe these men and women more than that? Much more? I am guessing you must have a job or at least have worked for a supervisor at some time in your life. Obama is the supervisor of our nation's military. Now does that sound like sound supervisory practice to you? Me neither.

"War has gotten the kids off the street". I beg to differ but most of the kids on the street are still there using drugs and alcohol, hanging out at the mall, etc. Most kids on the street will never go into the military service.

I have a hard time making sense of your last sentence/paragraph because of the multitude of run on sentences but if I read you correctly you want something done about the poor kids. You want them to have training and jobs. If I didn't understand then please forgive me.

It is true we have poor kids in America. But what brings that on? We have schools but many of the poor kids (I won't even get into race because schools are open to every kid in America) don't go to school. If they do go they drop out in favor of being a movie star, rap star, professional ball player or drug dealer. American schools these days provide breakfast and lunch free of charge to kids. Our government gives welfare cards, phones, food and housing to people who are poor. If they are starving maybe they should sell some of their Nike athletic shoes or Oakley sunglasses and buy food or use the welfare card for food in the first place rather than sell the card to then buy drugs. Maybe they should stop having children they can't afford but you and I seem to be able to afford their children with our tax dollars.

Since over 50 years ago with LBJ's welfare program America has spent Trillions of dollars to train people, feed people, house and clothe people in need. What has it done? We now have more people on welfare under the current POTUS than any other president in history.

Maybe you should look around and see what is happening around here with this administration. You won't like what you see. Yes, I know you say you aren't a friend of the POTUS but there is more to it than that.

Dennis