Call Off the ‘SEALs-ploitation’

NY Post ^ | August 10, 2011 | KURT SCHLICHTER

[lowbridge]

President Obama came into office unfamiliar with the culture of the military he found himself commanding -- but over time it’s become clear that his appreciation for the troops has grown as they have performed every task he has asked of them. This week, he went to Dover Air Force Base to personally greet the honored dead from SEAL Team 6 and other units killed in last weekend’s helicopter tragedy.

Yet his campaign operatives are another story: They’re set on using the SEALs and other warriors who hunted down bin Laden in a clumsy attempt to gin up support in the closing weeks before next year’s election.

As Maureen Dowd disclosed Saturday, the president’s “aides have made sure there are proxies to exuberantly brag” about SEAL Team 6’s already legendary bin Laden raid. Now, “the White House is also counting on the Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal big-screen version of the killing of Bin Laden to counter Obama’s growing reputation as ineffectual.”

The movie is to open on Oct. 12, 2012 -- just weeks before the election. And the filmmakers’ politics are no secret: They made the faux-pro-troop flick “The Hurt Locker; Bigelow is a Democratic donor -- and Boal, even more tellingly, wrote for Rolling Stone.

[devolve]

[Doogle]

....Dumbo is playing politics with dead troops. His statement about having them pay for their injuries themselves through insurance since they "volunteered" tells you all you want to know about this POS!

[Venturer]

Amen.

[Fester Chugabrew]

[Alberta's Child]

I suspect the unfortunate events with the downing of the helicopter and the loss of all those SEALs last week effectively put an end to any ideas anyone in the White House had about a propaganda film like this.

I mean, it would be the equivalent of having the Japanase government produce a move about the attack on Pearl Harbor . . . and then roll it out for its first public viewings a week after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[newnhdad]

it’s not about what’s right, it’s about getting Obama elected.

[Alberta's Child]

I know. My point is that the movie will have so little impact because even marginally intelligent viewers will ask themselves a very simple question:

"If capturing/killing Osama bin Laden in April 2011 was such a big deal, then why has the U.S. lost X military personnel in Afghanistan since then, in a war that has been going on for more than eleven years now?"

[Doogle]

I remember seeing that interview....NOW IT'S BEEN SCRUBBED...DOES ANYONE HAVE A SITE THAT STILL HAS IT?

[LibLieSlayer]

obama HATES the Military... he HATES white people... he HATES the SOUTH... he HATES the Constitution... he HATES Christians...

he LOVES marxism... he LOVES black liberation theology... he LOVES louis farakhan... he Loves islam... he IS a muslim... and nothing that he can ever say or do will change those facts or change the fact that he is THE WORST PRESIDENT THAT THIS REPUBLIC HAS EVER ENDURED... and he may have killed our Republic... for once and for all.

We will SUFFER for decades... if we even survive his administration... his actions will be felt well past all of our lifetimes... and YOU KNOW IT IS TRUE!

FUBO!

LLS

[OldEagle]

" His statement about having them pay for their injuries themselves through insurance since they "volunteered" ...

I must have missed that. Did he actually say that?

[lucky american]

The government can't show us the pictures of Osama because it would be inflammatory to the Muslim community but somehow a movie made about his death won't?

[GlockThe Vote]

Revolting.

[Doogle]

On March16, 2009, members of the American Legion met with President Obama where he discussed “a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries.”

[AndyJackson]

Dumbo is playing politics with dead troops

It is dumb when playing politics gets troops dead.

[Dixie Yooper]

The government can't show us the pictures of Osama because it would be inflammatory to the Muslim community but somehow a movie made about his death won't?

Maybe the end of movie has Oksana ascending from the deck of the ship into the clouds instead of being dumped into the ocean.

[AliVeritas]

Please repeat that. This is the guy who thought a fly-by of WTC was okay.

[Guenevere]

The first paragraph here.....second in the original article....makes me want to barf my breakfast.

Does anyone really believe this??????

[Happy Rain]

Way too kind,Obama views the military (as well as everything else) as a political tool in his Marxist conquest of America.
The armed forces know this and the majority loath him as their CinC (look for massive military disenfranchisement come election day).
They just hope he gives them a blatantly unconstitutional order...because they swore fidelity to the constitution FIRST and FOREMOST!!!

[AliVeritas]

What is it these bastards don’t understand?

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20517103,00.html

If you know about it, we have failed our mission.