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Sunday, May 6, 2012
Barack Hussein Obama ‘spits’ on the families of the dead Navy SEALS
When the caskets of those who were killed in Afghanistan and brought back to Dover Air Force Base, the families collectively asked that Obama NOT have cameras present. The families wanted to grieve in peace and not be part of an Obama photo op circus and political statement. Many of the families did not even want to be acknowledged by Obama, but he didn’t respect that request either.
Their name conjures up the most celebrated moment of America’s post-Sept. 11 military campaigns. Now the Navy SEALs belong to a grimmer chapter in history: the most deadly incident for U.S. forces in the 10-year Afghanistan war.
Three months after they killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan and cemented their place in military legend, the SEALs suffered a devastating loss when nearly two dozen of the elite troops were among 30 Americans who died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan.
(Personally, I believe Obama wanted the SEALS killed which is why the entire SEAL team was placed on an old, slow helicopter, and sent into a Taliban-infiltrated area)
See The United West video with the interview of one of the families here:
http://barenakedislam.com/2012/05/05/barack-hussein-obama-spits-on-the-families-of-the-dead-navy-seals/
Obama screws us yet again!
U.S. abandons consulate site in Afghanistan, citing security risks
Eager to raise an American flag and open a consulate in a bustling downtown district of the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, officials in 2009 sought waivers to stringent State Department building rules and overlooked significant security problems at the site, documents show. The problems included relying on local building techniques that made the compound vulnerable to a car bombing, according to an assessment by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul that was obtained by The Washington Post.
In March 2009, Richard C. Holbrooke, who had recently been appointed President Obama’s envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, lobbied for the establishment of a consulate in Mazar-e Sharif within 60 days, according to the memo. The city was deemed relatively safe at the time, far removed from Taliban strongholds of the south. A consulate just a short walk from Mazar-e Sharif’s Blue Mosque, one of the country’s most sacred religious sites, was seen as a way to reassure members of the ethnic Tajik and Uzbek minorities that dominate the north that the United States was committed to Afghanistan for the long haul.
“At the time, [Holbrooke] pushed hard to identify property and stand up an interim consulate, on a very tight timeline, to signal our commitment to the Afghan people,” according to the January memo by Martin Kelly, the acting management counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Holbrooke died in 2010 of complications from heart surgery.
An embassy spokesman declined to respond to questions about the assessment of the Mazar-e Sharif compound, saying that as a policy matter officials do not discuss leaked documents.
Trouble from the start
Had the Mazar-e Sharif consulate opened this year as planned, it would have been the second of four the U.S. government intends to set up. The United States has a consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat and is assessing options for the three other cities where it intends to keep a permanent diplomatic presence: Kandahar in the south, Jalalabad in the east and Mazar-e Sharif.
The embassy memo says the facility was far from ideal from the start. The compound, which housed a hotel when the Americans took it on, shared a wall with local shopkeepers. The space between the outer perimeter wall and buildings inside — a distance known as “setback” in war zone construction — was not up to U.S. diplomatic standards set by the State Department’s Overseas Security Policy Board. The complex was surrounded by several tall buildings from which an attack could easily be launched.
Rubio says Dream Act-style proposal not amnesty, confronts 'humanitarian issue'
FoxNews.com
Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday defended his emerging version of a scaled-back Dream Act to help the children of illegal immigrants earn legal status, saying it is not a form of amnesty and would use the existing immigration system to address a "humanitarian issue."
"We don't create any special pathways," the Florida Republican senator, who is considered a strong contender to be Mitt Romney's running mate, said on "Fox News Sunday."
Rubio's nascent proposal would allow the children of undocumented residents to obtain visas if they are attending college or serving in the military, and then apply for permanent residency through the normal process after that. The original version of the Dream Act, which many Republicans opposed, would have created a special path to permanent residency and even citizenship.
Rubio's plan has received a mixed response from GOP leaders. Romney himself has indicated a willingness to consider it, though has not openly embraced it.
Asked about Romney's potential reluctance to give Rubio's plan a public bear hug, Rubio said it would be "impossible" for anybody to take a firm stance on it, since the bill has not yet been filed.
"We still don't have a piece of legislation with the details in it," Rubio said.
Rubio's emerging plan is seen in some circles as a lifeline to Romney, who took tough anti-illegal immigration positions during the GOP primary battle, and one that could help him win back Hispanic voters.
Rubio pushed back on that idea, saying it's "wrong" to suggest Hispanic voters are in favor of illegal immigration. If anything, he said, Hispanics have been hurt by the economic policies of President Obama.
Obama's record, he said, "is not a record of upward mobility."
As for his Dream Act-style plan, Rubio insisted it would work within the existing immigration system while expressing empathy for the children of illegal immigrants whom it is meant to help.
"Their parents put them in this predicament," he said.
"We don't create any special pathways," the Florida Republican senator, who is considered a strong contender to be Mitt Romney's running mate, said on "Fox News Sunday."
Rubio's nascent proposal would allow the children of undocumented residents to obtain visas if they are attending college or serving in the military, and then apply for permanent residency through the normal process after that. The original version of the Dream Act, which many Republicans opposed, would have created a special path to permanent residency and even citizenship.
Rubio's plan has received a mixed response from GOP leaders. Romney himself has indicated a willingness to consider it, though has not openly embraced it.
Asked about Romney's potential reluctance to give Rubio's plan a public bear hug, Rubio said it would be "impossible" for anybody to take a firm stance on it, since the bill has not yet been filed.
"We still don't have a piece of legislation with the details in it," Rubio said.
Rubio's emerging plan is seen in some circles as a lifeline to Romney, who took tough anti-illegal immigration positions during the GOP primary battle, and one that could help him win back Hispanic voters.
Rubio pushed back on that idea, saying it's "wrong" to suggest Hispanic voters are in favor of illegal immigration. If anything, he said, Hispanics have been hurt by the economic policies of President Obama.
Obama's record, he said, "is not a record of upward mobility."
As for his Dream Act-style plan, Rubio insisted it would work within the existing immigration system while expressing empathy for the children of illegal immigrants whom it is meant to help.
"Their parents put them in this predicament," he said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/06/rubio-says-dream-act-style-proposal-deals-with-humanitarian-issue-not-amnesty/?intcmp=trending#ixzz1u7j76Zx2
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