Did Biden Out SEAL Team 6?

War On Terror: The deaths of more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that took out Osama bin Laden may be linked to a loose-lipped vice president and a presidential action figure.

The last scene of the 1954 Korean War film "The Bridges at Toko-Ri," based on the James Michener novel, shows a carrier commander watching planes take off for another mission and asking, "Where do we get such men?"

The same may be asked of the members of Navy SEAL (sea, air, land) Team 6 who died when the helicopter they were riding was hit by a Taliban-launched rocket-propelled grenade in the Tangi Valley of Wardak province just west of Kabul, Afghanistan.

That they were the best of the best is an understatement. To be a Navy SEAL, you had to be even better than that. President Kennedy formally created the SEALs as an elite force composed of America's best capable of combat operations in any theater or environment. They've performed bravely and admirably, although it is fitting we may never know of their greatest successes.

To be a politician takes more chutzpah than courage. The chattering class, as the mainstream media are called, pondered how the SEALs' killing of bin Laden last spring might affect President Obama's re-election chances in 2012. So did administration officials, as the leaks and chest-thumping began immediately. After all, it happened on Obama's watch, we were told.

SEAL missions depend on courage, skill, daring — and secrecy. Initially, when the president announced that "a small team of Americans" had killed Osama bin Laden, he did not identify it was the SEALs.

I think this article is spot on. My heart breaks for the families of the fallen -

This am I watched the Today Show and the family of Aaron Vaughn was on - he was a Seal team member killed on Sat. The father had some pointed comments about the “sheep” in Washington who have said too much. It is well worth watching - the fathers commentary alludes to what is written in this article. Amazing family - so sorry for their loss...I feel touched to have even seen them speaking on tv.

here is the link - take a moment to watch

http://www.hulu.com/watch/266300/nbc-today-show-fallen-seal-was-willing-to-give-his-life

My heart is sick. Words cannot describe my disgust at this administration and those who support it.

I'm blessed with many true friends, however we all have a few associates/friends & one of these was proud that he voted for the kenyan. Yea, my disgust of him after seeing him probably 15 times since the election I finally told him last week that my disgust for him & others that voted for BO & that I did not want to see him again until there is a mea culpa. Did I get some justification today - yes. He bragged last week that he bought a bunch of Bank of America stock. Last I saw today it was down 17%.

“Why were top level heroes sent on a routine
mission in a vulnerable chopper after giving out the
night vision equipment?”

We've seen that the military will protect its reputed commander in chief. It is unlikely that they will explore command decisions, but this mission clearly raises many questions.

A series of articles by Ann Barnhardt, a cattle options dealer, lawyer, and conservative, presents a coherent case. http://barnhardt.biz/ Among the excellent questions are why a national guard Chinook, when the Chinooks used by special forces are armed and armoured, and why not the Special Forces Pilots? Why are so many highly specialized troops are being carried in one vehicle?

Jimmy Carter oversaw a tragic attempt to free our citizens at the Iranian Embassy. The planning was flawed, but the mission was well-intentioned. That mission failed because of sand. Why, when combatents in Afganistan have used shoulder-fired missles on many occassions, would a combat mission in such a big, slow, bulky, low-flying target, use an unarmored helicopter when armored copters were reportedtly sitting idly nearby? That sounds like a suicide mission. These troops know how to plan and fight. Every second in the air must be nervewracking. Having served in an antiaircraft battery, I always thought about how helpless my targets must have felt, as they must have known I might be tracking them and "locked on." That is the issue which fails the smell test.

There are legitimate questions about even naming the previously secret combat group presumable involved in the killing of bin-Laden, raising the question of whether this could have been a political sacrifice (bin-Laden's burial at sea was curious, and certainly not a Muslim practice unless the Muslim was a Barbary pirate). Supporters of Obama clearly plotted and acted to endanger our soldiers in Viet Nam (Ayers and company) and Iraq (Code Pink). (Learn who these people are in Stanley Kurtz' or David Horowitz' books, both dealing with our resident Marxist/Stalinist/Maoists.)

Lots of questions are legitimate, because there are conspiracies, as politically incorrect as the media have convinced many that these events are. A conspiracy is a planned political event. There should be a congressional investigation. There are too many quesitons. People who put their lives at risk to protect us must have confidence that they are not pawns in political struggles.

What was NATOs and Obama’s role in the distribution of night vision to the Islamic enemy?

We've been arming Pakistan and Afghanistan with NVGs for ten years. So, plenty. We also tolerate a large amount of theft by our allies of our supply lines, where NVGs turn up missing.

Why were top level heroes sent on a routine mission in a vulnerable chopper after giving out the night vision equipment?

Because it's what we've been doing for ten years. We lose people every day to these tactics. It was just a matter of time before we lost enough in one day for most people to notice.

If you guys are just now getting around to getting angry, well, better late than never, I guess.

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