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Obama Can't Bring One Marine Back From Mexico
Investor's Business Daily ^ | May 21, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 05/21/2014 9:26:01 AM PDT by raptor22

Priorities: A Marine Corps combat veteran remains in a Mexican jail after missing a freeway ramp and crossing the border with legally owned American firearms — without a single hash tag from the White House.

It is a tough time for veterans these days, starting with those left to die — or even commit suicide — while on Veterans Administration waiting lists, seemingly abandoned by their commander-in-chief who early on promised to make things right and redress their grievances.

Also seemingly abandoned is Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a 25-year-old combat veteran, who was jailed in late March after he missed a freeway exit near San Ysidro, Calif., and drove into Tijuana.

In his trunk, Mexican authorities found three guns that he legally owned in the United States. Tahmooressi was incarcerated in La Mesa Prison in Tijuana, a fate the Obama administration's gun walkers in Fast and Furious never had to face.

At the time of his arrest, the 25-year-old active U.S. Marine reservist, who served two combat tours in Afghanistan, was moving to San Diego to be close to his treatment center for his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Proceedings against Tahmooressi are scheduled for May 28.

Soon after being jailed, Tahmooressi was transferred to a maximum security facility roughly 40 miles outside of Tijuana. After Mexican authorities said he allegedly attempted to escape and suffered a self-inflicted stab wound, he was at one point placed in a jail infirmary with his arms and legs restrained.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: 0hatesmilitary; andrewtahmooressi; jonhammar; marinemexico; marines; mexico; semperfi; tahmooressi; usmarines
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1 posted on 05/21/2014 9:26:02 AM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

This whole situation is an absolute disgrace. We have become a weak, pathetic nation. Go ahead and tug on Superman’s cape. Nothing will happen.


2 posted on 05/21/2014 9:29:24 AM PDT by clintonh8r (#Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: raptor22

You can bet the President would be all over tho if it were a pair of minority group Marines coming back from their homosexual marriage who were thrown in jail.


3 posted on 05/21/2014 9:29:30 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: raptor22

Yeah...Clown Prince nobama and Ms. HashTag (mooch-elle) are really concerned about all Veterans.


4 posted on 05/21/2014 9:29:33 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: raptor22
Obama had a high school talent show to put on at the White House yesterday. He couldn't be bothered.

-PJ

5 posted on 05/21/2014 9:32:41 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: rdcbn

I refer all to the words of President Theodore Roosevelt -

“Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”

Perdicaris came home pretty quickly.


6 posted on 05/21/2014 9:40:13 AM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: raptor22

Obama ran on the notion that the Bush Administration had started a war and then abandoned those he sent to war.

The disgrace is that the MSM ran with that ball, foisted it as a major issue during the 2008 election, and then DROPPED it as soon as he was elected. In other words, this topic like so many others, was really just an election promise, not really an issue to be addressed. And the media let him get away with it.

The reason the media is covering it now, with such vigor, is that they are hoping your average low info voter doesn’t remember their nightly news casts with the number of service members killed or their salivating over Cindy Sheehan on a DAILY basis or the fact that they dropped ALL that anti-war rhetoric as soon as Obama was elected!

The saddest part, they will probably succeed in deceiving most of the low info voters!


7 posted on 05/21/2014 9:41:16 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: raptor22

What a waste of journalism. NOT News Worthy per the lame-stream media.


8 posted on 05/21/2014 9:41:17 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: raptor22

Well at least Obama is consistent.

He abandons veterans in every circumstance.


9 posted on 05/21/2014 9:42:38 AM PDT by zipper (In Their Heart Of Hearts, Every Democrat Is A Communist.)
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To: raptor22; cripplecreek; All

According to the Democrat’s Fairness Doctrine, the return of ONE live US Marine is a Fair, Fast AND Furious Foreign Trade Agreement for Mexico keeping the THREE guns that they stole from the US Marine.

Come on, Secretary of Statements, Kerry, YOU CAN DO THIS!


10 posted on 05/21/2014 9:43:08 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: raptor22
WORST

PRESIDENT

EVER

11 posted on 05/21/2014 9:43:20 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Operating out of weakness? Imagine if he was working from a position of strength!)
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To: raptor22

The only person helping that Marine is his mother. She is down there in Tijuana. She probably is paying for his daily tortillas, soup, and “rent.”


12 posted on 05/21/2014 9:43:31 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: raptor22

zer0 could care less about this.

I can not even express my disgust for the POS commie bastard.


13 posted on 05/21/2014 9:43:43 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: raptor22
#México devolver nuestro Marino.

I haven't seen that hash tag yet from the White House. I wonder why?

Barry, Michelle?

5.56mm

14 posted on 05/21/2014 9:46:08 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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He won’t do anything —— The Marine had one of those nasty “Black Guns” ....
As a side note: The Marine would have had a problem in Kalifornia with those Mags over 10rds.


15 posted on 05/21/2014 9:47:56 AM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2014!)
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To: raptor22

He won’t do anything —— The Marine had one of those nasty “Black Guns” ....
As a side note: The Marine would have had a problem in Kalifornia with those Mags over 10rds.


16 posted on 05/21/2014 9:47:57 AM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2014!)
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To: raptor22
If CNN were covering this than I am sure the CIC would hear about it, then be mad as hell about it, then form a committee to find out if it's true.

But because CNN is not covering this, the CIC will never know of this soldiers situation.

17 posted on 05/21/2014 9:48:07 AM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: raptor22

Sign the petition to get Obama to address this:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/demand-release-usmc-sgt-tahmooressi-suffering-ptsd-mexico-imprisonment/qslJk2Xd


18 posted on 05/21/2014 9:50:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: raptor22

Mexico just laughs.


19 posted on 05/21/2014 9:52:21 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: raptor22

Why is it that we let Mexicans come into our country and break laws, but we do not protect our own citizens who are accused of breaking laws in Mexico?


20 posted on 05/21/2014 9:53:03 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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