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Obama’s Treachery and Republican Silence
FrontPage Magazine ^ | August 9, 2014 | David Horowitz

Posted on 08/11/2014 7:58:03 AM PDT by SJackson

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Barack Obama deliberately set out to lose the war in Iraq, and he did. He defied the advice of his joint chiefs of staff to secure America’s formidable military presence and keep 20,000 troops in country, and left Iraq to its own devices and the tender mercies of Iran. In doing so, he betrayed every American and Iraqi who gave his life to create a free Iraq and keep it out of the clutches of the terrorists.

Iraq is now a war zone dominated by the terrorist forces of the Islamic State, whose rise Obama’s policies fostered. Both his secretaries of state praised the animal Bashar Assad as a “reformer” and a man of “peace,” helping him to thwart his domestic opposition. The Islamic State was born out of the Syrian chaos that ensued.

Far worse was Obama’s open support for America’s mortal enemy, the Muslim Brotherhood, spawner of al-Qaeda and Hamas. During the “Arab Spring,” Obama essentially put America’s weight behind the legitimization of this murderous organization that had been outlawed for 40 years for its assassinations and conspiracies against the Egyptian regime. Secretary of State Clinton gave totally unfounded assurances to the world that the Brotherhood was ready to become part of the democratic process and give up its 90-year holy war against infidels, Jews in particular but also — and explicitly — America. During the Brotherhood’s brief tenure as the government in Egypt Obama gave these genocidal zealots more than a billion dollars in American aid and F-16 fighter-bombers that could easily reach Israel’s major population centers, which for 60 years the Brotherhood had sworn to destroy.

By his feckless interventions in the Middle East, and his tacit support for the chief organization of Islam’s terror war against the West, Obama has set the Middle East on fire. All the violence in the crescent from Gaza to Iraq, including Hamas’s genocidal war against Israel, has been encouraged by Obama’s support for the Brotherhood and hostility toward the Jewish state.

Characteristic of this encouragement was his illegal intervention in Libya, which violated every principle that Obama and the Democrats invoked to attack President Bush and undermine America’s war against the Saddam regime and the terrorists in Iraq. Thanks to Obama, Libya is now in the hands of the terrorists and thousands of Libyans are fleeing to Tunisia and Egypt. Thanks to Obama, the Christian communities of Iraq, which date back to the time of Christ, are being slaughtered.

Because of Obama’s aversion to America’s role as a keeper of international peace, the tyrant Putin has been able to swallow Crimea and threaten the rest of Ukraine. Since his election in 2009, Obama’s policies have been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people and will result in the deaths of tens of thousands more. Thanks to his efforts to destroy America’s borders, Americans may be included in this grim toll. Certainly, Americans are now threatened by terrorists as never before.

Where is the Republican opposition? Why are Republicans still treating Obama as though his were a normal presidency and not a national disgrace? Why are there no indictments of Obama for the carnage he has enabled?

There is one foreign policy area where Republicans have shown some fight: Benghazi. But the fight here has been over an inquiry — important in its own right, but not a political challenge to Obama’s efforts to sabotage and degrade the country he is supposed to lead.

We know the basic facts. Obama’s team was trying to monitor and recapture the weapons we had helped supply to Islamist militias in Libya. That was Ambassador Stevens’s mission. No security was provided because Stevens’s mission had to be secret and plausibly deniable in the middle of an election in which Obama was running on the cynical lie that the war on terror had been won. During the battle waged by American heroes against the terrorists’ assault in Benghazi, the president and his secretary of state went A.W.O.L. and left these brave Americans to die. Instead of honoring them and hunting down their killers, Obama then took off for a fundraiser in Las Vegas. This was surely the most shameful individual act by a president in the history of the White House.

Having abandoned these American heroes and their families, Obama and his minions then lied to the American people about the terrorist attack and used it as an occasion to defend the Prophet Mohammed in a U.N. address to the world. This series of acts showed Obama’s contempt for the American military, contempt for the American people, and sympathy for America’s enemies, an attitude that has been revealed over and over again.

When will Republicans gather the courage to start speaking truth to power?


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidhorowitz; obama; repubs

1 posted on 08/11/2014 7:58:03 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 08/11/2014 7:58:26 AM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: SJackson; All

After nearly 6 years of observing B. Hussein’s ACTIONS, which choice (IYHO), as listed below, best describes Obama?

A.) “Psychopatic personality,

1.) a person characterized by:
* emotional instability,
* lack of sound judgement,
* perverse and impulsive (often criminal) behavior,
* inability to learn from experience,
* amoral and asocial feelings,
* and other serious personality defects:
* he may or may not have psychotic attacks or symptoms.”

B.) “Asocial,

implies:
* complete indifference to the interests, welfare, etc. of society,
* and connotes abnormal or irresponsible self-centeredness - - -.”

Note: Quotes are from Webster’s Dictionary.


3 posted on 08/11/2014 7:59:41 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: SJackson
When will Republicans gather the courage to start speaking truth to power?

As long as they are led by the likes of Bonehead and McCommie, they never will.

4 posted on 08/11/2014 8:01:24 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SJackson

5 posted on 08/11/2014 8:10:09 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Graewoulf




I MUST PROTEST.....asa charter member or I find this most racess
6 posted on 08/11/2014 8:10:26 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: SJackson
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

I don't see anywhere in the oath of office where it provides for playing politics, lying to congress, being a lying politician, or any of the other things which are so obviously occurring.

7 posted on 08/11/2014 8:14:39 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: SJackson

Good article. Thanks for posting it. I remembered the photo(s) of Kerry with Assad after reading it. Funny how Obama’s people changed in regard to Assad.


8 posted on 08/11/2014 8:28:08 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy
Kerry & Assad

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/kerry-frequent-visitor-syrian-dictator-bashar-al-assad_690885.html

9 posted on 08/11/2014 8:29:31 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SJackson

All roads in both parties lead to an insatiable desire for wealth and power. Each has a facade of being “public servants of the people,” but neither has America’s best interests at heart. Democrats, due to the immense propaganda machine known as the mainstream media, has a better PR department. Most Republicans are spineless cowards who refuse to challenge Obama.


10 posted on 08/11/2014 8:33:37 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Freestate316

Why are Republicans still treating obama as though his were a normal presidency and not a national disgrace?

Why indeed. We have yet to hear George Bush make any comments about obama immense failures. Both he and his father show up to give their support. The other “republican leaders” have no morals. I do not think these guys read any websites like this. They still just read the NY Times and Washington Post.


11 posted on 08/11/2014 8:40:07 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: SJackson

The stupid continue to look at the republican leadership and most republicans in the house and senate as being weak, get real, they are not weak, THEY SUPPORT, that’s right support the democrats and the democrat leadership in just about ALL the seek to do. They do not cave, they SUPPORT.


12 posted on 08/11/2014 8:41:56 AM PDT by stockpirate (This will stop when conservatives take to the streets, not before.)
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To: Fiji Hill
And as long as conservatives support the likes of Bonehead and McCommie, there never will be GOPe leadership that has the courage to start speaking truth to power .
13 posted on 08/11/2014 8:45:18 AM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: minnesota_bound

That’s why I believe they are two sides of the same coin. They may look a little different, but they still have the same values. Republicans have a pretense of conservatism, but it’s a mirage because they refuse to take a stand for what they say they believe.


14 posted on 08/11/2014 8:45:48 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: SJackson

Get used to it! Obama is not interested in America. He was raised to hate it and is living his upbringing. Until he is gone from power there will be no America First. God save the Republic.


15 posted on 08/11/2014 8:47:35 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SJackson

Republican “leaders” in DC are hoping to tiptoe past all of the scandals and into majorities in both houses of Congress in November.

Holding Obama and his lawless minions to account would only invite charges of racism and upset their well-laid plans—Better to stay quiet on that and, instead, attack the conservative wing of the base.

Of course, if the base stays home, what then?


16 posted on 08/11/2014 8:54:49 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: SJackson

‘Obama’s Treachery and Republican Silence’

LOL, talk about parsing words. In any sane world the headline would read like this: Obama’s Treachery and Republican Treachery
The GOP is just as bad as the dems...no difference at all. They both stand for the same things.


17 posted on 08/11/2014 9:52:24 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: SJackson; All

Thank you for referencing that article SJackson. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

I don’t see how federal RINO lawmakers can be blamed for not stopping Obama.

More specifically, Congress is divided and constitutionally gridlocked (essentially as the Founding States had intended for Congress to normally operate with respect to the few powers constitutionally delegated to Congress where domestic policy is concerned).

Unfortunately, although Congress has the constitutional authority to override a president’s vetoes and to remove a president from office if necessary, patriots and former Obama supporters have arguably been asleep at the wheel with respect to exercising their voting muscle to make sure that 2/3 of members of both Houses of Congress would be willing to exercise such constitutional options.

Note that Speaker Boehner is trying to sue Obama because that’s the only legal option that he has since Congress is divided.

Insights welcome.


18 posted on 08/11/2014 10:12:07 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Fiji Hill

Yep. Boner has been a disaster as Speaker.


19 posted on 08/11/2014 10:25:53 PM PDT by jospehm20
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