“So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: justice has been done.” President Barack Obama, the night of Osama bin Laden’s death.
As we near the first anniversary of the Benghazi attacks on September 11, 2012, we also approach another important anniversary. On August 6, 2011, in the Tangi River Valley, one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan, 30 brave American warriors boarded an antiquated Chinook helicopter, to enter into a fierce battlefield in the middle of the night. None of them came out alive.
If you’d like to know the beginning of this story, look back to May 1st of 2011, when the Obama administration had it’s proudest moment. I will never forget where I was when I heard the news, on a Sunday night. I had been at church and was driving home when I got a text from a friend in Canada. The text said “Osama is dead”. I glanced at it while driving and my heart skipped a beat. Just as I started to text him back I paused a moment and then wrote “Osama or Obama?”, wondering if it was a typo. He answered “Osama bin Laden”. I went through a drive thru window to get dinner to take home, and joyfully asked the girl at the window “Did you hear the news? Osama bin Laden is dead! We got him!.” She gave me a look of total surprise, confirmed what I’d said in disbelief and then turned and shouted inside the restaurant “Osama bin Laden is dead!” Her coworkers rushed to the window and looked at me. “Are you sure?” they said. “YES!” I answered. I had it on the radio by that time and they could hear the report. I wasn’t even sure why I’d stopped, other than the fact that I wanted to start texting as many people as I could to share the big news. I assume this is a lot like people who talk about remembering where they were when President Kennedy was shot. It was, for our generation, and our time, a defining moment in history. A true threat, someone behind the worst act of terrorism ever committed on U.S. soil, nearly ten years earlier, was now dead.
I rushed home and turned on the coverage, which was all over all the tv channels. There was our President, poised and positioned as a hero, stating that in fact, Osama bin Laden was dead. It wasn’t long; two days to be exact, until Vice President Joe Biden declared publicly that bin Laden had been eliminated by a group of elite warriors: DEVGRU, formerly Navy SEAL Team VI. The baddest of the bad, the fiercest of the fierce, the Best of the Best, the Navy SEALs, had killed bin Laden. Not only the SEALs, but an elite subgroup, we learned, known as Team 6. More and more questions loomed about the Op that took out bin Laden. How did it happen? Where did they find him? Who was involved? How did he die? Where is his body? The questions were endless. Some would even be answered. None needed to be answered.
The American public and the rest of the world did not NEED to know the answers to these questions. The news, was large enough on its own. The redemption, was big enough, on its own, without the exposure of who did it or how it was done. Certain information is not meant to be shared. They call it CLASSIFIED. Immediately upon Vice President Biden’s announcement, concerns began to form about the safety of the men in this elite unit of Navy SEALs. These are people, with families. They have parents and grandparents, wives, girlfriends, children, brothers, sisters, cousins, and friends. Although they may seem invincible, they are very human. Their identities were fragile at this point with the narrowing down which Biden’s announcement, followed by another one by then CIA Director Leon Panetta, brought to pinpoint exactly who these men were. The next morning after bin Laden’s death, Bob Woodward reported on ABC’s Good Morning America, that retaliation had always been in the works with al Qaeda, and that the shift would now be made into that mode, which had been planned for 10 years, in the event of bin Laden’s death. The exposure that Biden and Panetta brought, was potentially lethal to SEAL Team VI members, and it was not necessary, other than to bolster popularity and elevate the administration and paint themselves as heroes. They are not heroes. Heroes don’t draw attention to themselves. Heroes put their lives on the line and live lives of sacrifice. They put themselves in harms way and do so without regret and with courage, conviction and confidence. They sure as hell don’t brag about it afterward.
What we witnessed following that, was nothing short of an orchestrated effort to not only brag but also to pat themselves on the backs, by the administration. Immediately after the news broke that Sunday night around 9 PM, the President was all over television, making a speech, and in that speech, he said:
“The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. After nearly ten years of service, struggle, and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war. These efforts weigh on me every time I, as Commander-in-Chief, have to sign a letter to a family that has lost a loved one, or look into the eyes of a service member who’s been gravely wounded.”
Within less than 48 hours, suddenly the concern for our servicemen, or at least the group known as SEAL Team VI, was carelessly disregarded when the exposure rolled off the lips of Biden. The costs of war. What exactly was meant by that? The costs of war, is measured first and foremost, by loss of lives. To now, essentially, put a target on the backs of those who righted this horrible wrong, in the only way it could have been done, is horribly wrong and grossly immoral. It was careless, self-serving, and criminally wrong. It targeted not only those brave men who brought so much redemption and healing to our nation in that one celebratory moment, when we realized that the monster behind all of the pain and destruction and death from 9/11, was at last, dead and in hell if there is any justice in this world; but also, it put the target on their families, and they knew it, immediately. No one knew then, that within a few short months, the largest single loss of lives would occur in the war in Afghanistan. Thirty Americans, including members from SEAL Team VI, the anonymous, quiet, professional warriors, who live by a code to keep their sensitive missions secret, would be shot out of the sky in a Chinook helicopter by the Taliban, in a certain act of retaliation.
Now, the families of those men, demand justice about what happened that night almost two years ago. Their questions must be answered. Show us, Mr. President, the relentless defense of justice, for our bravest warriors. A congressional hearing will finally soon convene. The truth, must come out.
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All I can say is that when that chopper went down I had a very bad feeling. I was not in the mood in believing it was mere coincidence. These men were the best of the best. And to be flying in a "hot zone" in an aircraft that was not exactly delegated for such a mission was odd at best. I am not a conspiratorial fanatic. But with current situ with our embassies and mere fact that we gave intel to the enemy is beyond my thought pattern. Is there a sugggestive correlation ? I am asking these questions and there must be others asking the same. But someone please correct me if I am out of line by even considering such a correlation.
Drive the nail harder Marty, creates spark's, then lightening..!!
Marty and Ronald: The problem I have is Nobummmmer. What he did the night of that announcement was criminal. He voided all of the intelligence that could have been gleaned from the things Seal 6 uncovered; but NO. He had to be the big fish in the pond and open his stupid, lying flap, called a mouth. There are forces I don't know that allow this criminal, born in Kenya, to stay in the BlackHouse. The complete and total lack of leadership in ANY opposition to this jerk, now I've done it, I insulted jerks, I'm sorry. This POS-imposter will probably stay where he is. Ruining the country even more because of the lack of leadership from anyone of the 535 puppets in the District of Criminals. Plus the fact that the crummydats stole the last election and are poised to do the same in 2014. Come on now, would the Italian company that George Soros bought that counts the ballots placed in the USA falsify the voting results? Only if they got a good chance!!!!!!!
Sadly the American sheeple have been conditioned to no longer desire any need to know the answers to such questions.Too often when they pray they look to our secular government and forget God.Quite the opposite of what was true when Congress appointed Gen.Washington under the old Articles of War-I believe my generation of American fighting Man was numbered among the last to be trained to consider well the founding principles.as reflected in the organic utterances of the ea.But even during them SE Asian War Games Americans were being conditioned to not invest in warriors -or in war-and the answers were provided answers from the shadows while our chosen leaders promised victory they had no intention of securing.
I too hope and pray the congessional hearing will finally bring the truth to light.
Since when are our mightiest of might placed on the same aircraft? Reports stated that a member of our (intelligent) Team Six laid down beside the Dead OBL as an attempt to identify this lanky terrorist by his height. Are our men so damn dumb other means of measurement were non-existent? His body was then "dumped" before DNA, of course! Doesn't this sound like a story like the you tube video set off the actions in Benghazi? Did our bright and bold men had to die because OBL was killed by Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh according to exiled prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan in an interview with David Frost.( Web search, you tube video spells this out). Of course, she didn't live either! I believe OBL WAS killed back when and NOT by our Team Six. They became marked men in case on of them tried to "spill the beans." All of this corruption was for the ratings of BHO.
Just my humble opinion
I DO NOT BELIEVE OBAMA IS DEAD ( THAT IS WHY THE SEALS ARE DEAD ) .
LET ME JUST SAY THIS.... THERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED FOR A POLITICAL CREED. NOT THE CREED THAT was INSTILLED IN THESE MEN wHO SPENT MANY HOURS OF SwEAT AND COMMITTMENT TO ACCEPT MISSIONS THAT ARE ALWAYS SUBJECT TO DEATH. THIS THE POLITICAL ELITE wILL NEVER UNDERSTAND. THEY ARE COMPLETELY AND AUTHENTICALLY STUPID WHICH THEIR ACTIONS AND WORDS DEMONSTRATE. THESE ARE TRULY SICK AND EVIL PEOPLE THAT ARE PERPETRATING THIS DECEPTION !!!!!!
VICTORIA PER SCIENTIAM