Guest post by Jim Adams: "DERELICTION of DUTY" - Granite Grok

Guest post by Jim Adams: “DERELICTION of DUTY”

DERELICTION of DUTY

Veterans, the Benghazi massacre showed Obama’s true concern and his real agenda regarding the safety of our troops and Americans on foreign soil. As the truth continues to come out in bits and pieces, through little help from the national media, the evidence is very clear. Obama’s Rose Garden comments were the beginning of the worst cover-up and distortion of the truth seen in this country since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that led to our ever-deepening commitment to a war in Vietnam. Whatever the virtues of stopping a vicious Communist takeover of a predominately Christian nation (South Vietnam), LBJ’s political expediency trumped making an honest case to the Congress and the American people. Much like today, his political dissembling to the nation had the effect of snatching stalemate or worse from the jaws of victory ~ at terrible cost.

The highest ranking Administration personnel watched this well-planned and executed military-style attack take place, in real time via camera link from predator drones. Meanwhile, the Obama spin team crafted the clumsy lie; that it was a spontaneous response to a provocative YouTube video degrading Islam. When Obama endorsed this fabrication in the Rose Garden, he also apologized to the Islamic nations regarding the video and stated that the guilty parties would be hunted down.

The truth: his administration is guilty of criminal dereliction of duty. Numerous requests were made for additional security for the consulate and embassy prior to the attack; yet each time they were denied, leaving all of those Americans in grave danger. However, even that incompetence pales in comparison to what actually happened on the night of the attack. Do you remember the famous White House Situation Room scene where the President watched brave Seal Team Six nail Bin Laden? Likewise, on September 11, 2012 the White House was getting a live-feed of exactly what was happening at the Benghazi consulate and knew from multiple real-time videos, that this was not a spontaneous demonstration.

At the same time, the two former Seal Team members, now private security for a CIA mission, asked for permission to join the fight to try and protect the consulate. They asked three times and each time they were denied. Finally, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty disobeyed orders and joined the fight. What happened next was the most egregious of all.

When the former Seals engaged the combatants attacking the Embassy, they repeatedly asked for support. They asked for air support after stating they had the enemy combatants spotted and laser painted. Denied! They asked for additional troops. Denied, even though a rapid response Delta team in Italy was only two hours away. These brave former Seals fought alone for seven hours and still no help came. No wonder that Obama does not want to address these issues. In the Chicago style of politics, the Democrats claim that all of the outrage is just politically motivated. They are dead wrong!

It is far from that! This tragedy is the result of Obama’s failed foreign policy. As with the economy, this President’s judgment has been a complete failure. All his failed promises and actions are designed to push the United States into becoming a fully socialist nation that has lost its preeminence in the world: A toothless lion on the dole.

In his excitement to gain political points, after Seal Team Six eliminated Bin Laden, Obama immediately ‘spiked the football.’ This did not allow our intelligence community time to fully utilize the treasure trove of intelligence found on Bin Laden’s computers. Moreover, he identified the members of Seal Team Six, men who must live in the shadows; their whereabouts, families and unit information are Top Secret. He put those Seal Team members’ lives in grave jeopardy. (Just over a month later, half of Seal Team Six were killed in Afghanistan.)

Nor should we forget that moment in Europe when Obama asked the outgoing Russian President to tell Vladimir Putin that he would “have more flexibility” after he gets through this re-election thing. Ominous! And worst of all, our children and grandchildren face an Iran very close to having nuclear weapons and the missile technology to deliver them.

This complete failure of foreign policy, compounded by 23 million unemployed Americans faced by rising gas and food prices, leaves little doubt that it is time to let him go. Veterans, I ask you to do the right thing on November 6 and send Barack Hussein Obama to the unemployment line. He built that!

Jim Adams is a resident of Pittsfield NH • (603)435-8125 • Jim is a Vietnam Veteran, US Navy 1968 – 1972. Additionally he served as Chief of Staff to the Postmaster General and has served on the Executive Committee of the US Department of Defense WWII 50th Anniversary Committee

 

 

 

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