Posted on 10/03/2011 7:57:54 AM PDT by seekthetruth
If a cop and a promising student were gunned down and the shooter was caught, only to be freed after four years, the outrage would be palpable. Politicos would fall all over themselves to register their indignation and the press would be on it for weeks.
It happened in the case of New York State Trooper John McKenna and Pace University law student Michael Glover, who were serving in Iraq with the Marine Corps Reserve. Yet this story is virtually unknown, even though the injustice is enormous and systemic.
Five years ago, Lance Cpl. Glover, having put a scholarship on hold to volunteer for combat duty in Iraq, was the pointman on a patrol outside of Fallujah when he was killed by a sniper's bullet. Capt. McKenna, Glover's platoon commander, earned a posthumous Silver Star for giving his life in an attempt to save Glover.
Months later, U.S. troops captured their killer, Muhammad Awwad Ahmad. Recently, the families of the fallen learned from the Defense Department U.S. forces turned Ahmad over to Iraqi authorities in June 2010, and that an Iraqi court set him free four months later.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
11/2/12 cannot come soon enough.
But he can press a button and kill ANYONE on the face of the earth with a drone and the sheeple will applaud like they are at a minstrel show.
Bumpity Bump Bump
Praying we make it to 11/2/12
I called the office of Congressman McKeon, Chairman of the Armed Services Committe and asked him to hold hearings on this Obama policy which is endangering our troops.
I will call my Congressman tomorrow.....Julie
Amen!
Ovomit’s hatred for America has no bounds. His association with Marxists goes way back. See here:
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2734278%3ATopic%3A287974&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
Today and tomorrow we need to keep up the phone calls and emails demanding Congressional Hearings on the Catch and Release Policy. WE MUST STAND WITH OUR MILITARY because no one in Obama's Administration will! Please make a call to your Rep and to Rep. McKeon's office. He is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and is the one to call for the Hearings.
A list of successful Islamic terror attacks on American soil before and after 9/11.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
HERE YOU GO PATRIOTS! Just pull up your state, find your Representative to Congress, make a phone call, send an email, and tell them you stand with our Military and demand Congressional Hearings on Obama’s Catch and Release Policy NOW!
Msg to troops:
“Don’t take prisoners”
Please folks, as of Monday morning PLEASE CALL BUCK McKEON’s office and ask them what they are doing regarding Col West's request, sent in August, asking for congressional hearings on the catch and release policies!!! Our troops catch the murdering terrorists and this administration's “catch and release” policy lets them go to kill more of our troops!
Enough of this!!! YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE HERE BY MAKING ONE PHONE CALL ...Buck McKeon is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee... (202) 225-1956.
If you will, also please ask them when they will be releasing our Soldiers from Leavenworth!
Catch and release!!!
Please be polite but firm. I believe the only way these hearings will take place is if the American people demand them.
Thank You
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/09/obama-policy-setting-troop-killers-free-iraq
Obama policy setting troop killers free in Iraq
By: Kieran Lalor | 10/01/11 8:05 AM
Special to The Examiner
If a cop and a promising student were gunned down and the shooter was caught, only to be freed after four years, the outrage would be palpable. Politicos would fall all over themselves to register their indignation and the press would be on it for weeks.
It happened in the case of New York State Trooper John McKenna and Pace University law student Michael Glover, who were serving in Iraq with the Marine Corps Reserve. Yet this story is virtually unknown, even though the injustice is enormous and systemic.
Five years ago, Lance Cpl. Glover, having put a scholarship on hold to volunteer for combat duty in Iraq, was the pointman on a patrol outside of Fallujah when he was killed by a sniper's bullet. Capt. McKenna, Glover's platoon commander, earned a posthumous Silver Star for giving his life in an attempt to save Glover.
Months later, U.S. troops captured their killer, Muhammad Awwad Ahmad. Recently, the families of the fallen learned from the Defense Department U.S. forces turned Ahmad over to Iraqi authorities in June 2010, and that an Iraqi court set him free four months later.
Glover and McKenna are dead and buried, but the man who killed them roams free to kill more Americans. Unfortunately, this miscarriage of justice is not an isolated incident. It is a policy of the Obama administration.
Under the Iraq Security Agreement signed by the Bush administration in 2008, all detainees left in Iraq by the end of 2011 have to be turned over to the Iraqis. For the most part, the Bush White House was giving the pickpockets and common criminals over to the Iraqis but moving dangerous terrorists who had killed Americans to places like Guantanamo Bay to be held for military trials.
The Obama administration wanted to shutter Gitmo and believed that enemy combatants captured on overseas battlefields deserved federal civilian trials. When American public opinion thwarted this policy, Obama found himself boxed into a self-created ideological corner. Rather than adjust the flawed position, the administration began turning over to the Iraqis even non-Iraqi terrorists who killed Americans in Iraq.
In July, the administration tried quietly to transfer Ali Mousa Daqduq, a Lebanese Hezbollah commander working at the behest of the Iranians, over to Iraqi authorities. Among other acts of terror, Daqduq masterminded the killing of five American soldiers. A group of U.S. senators wrote the Pentagon to prevent Daqduq’s transfer because it was almost certain he'd be released or allowed to escape. The administration has yet to turn him over, but remains committed to doing so by year's end.
Most media reports about Daqduq and other dangerous detainees being transferred to Iraqi authorities give the impression that this is an aberration, and that the Obama administration's hands are tied by the agreement signed by the previous administration. Nonsense. The Obama administration can still detain terrorist outside Iraq, rather than hand them over to the Iraqis so they can be turned loose to kill again.
Every service member who picked up a rifle or manned a post in the last 10 years did so with the goal of killing or capturing the likes of Muhammad Awwad Ahmad and Ali Mousa Daqduq. The Obama administration is undoing their hard work.
Kieran Lalor is a Marine Corps veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the founder of Afghanistan & Iraq Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/09/obama-policy-setting-troop-killers-free-iraq#ixzz1ZpRPeUGa
If you would like more information or know a wounded warrior or disabled vet, feel free to email us at military@AnyStreet.org.
Definition of a Veteran:
“A veteran - whether Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard or retired - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America”,for an amount of “up to and including my life.”
It fits in perfectly with liberal beliefs; turn the murderers loose and kill the most innocent, e.e. the unborn.
I sure understand how it is for those living among DEMS!
But you could also help by calling BUCK McKEON’s office and ask them what they are doing regarding congressional hearings on the catch and release policies. Our troops catch the murdering terrorists and this administration’s “catch and release” policy lets them go to kill more of our troops!
Tell Buck McKeon’s office aid who answers that you are calling him because he is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee... (202) 225-1956. He is the one who should call for Congressional Hearings!
Please folks, starting Monday morning PLEASE CALL BUCK McKEON’s office and ask them what they are doing regarding Col West's request, sent in August, asking for congressional hearings on the catch and release policies!!! Our troops catch the murdering terrorists and this administration's “catch and release” policy lets them go to kill more of our troops!
Enough of this!!! YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE HERE BY MAKING ONE PHONE CALL ...Buck McKeon is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee... (202) 225-1956.
If you will, also please ask them when they will be releasing our Soldiers from Leavenworth!
Catch and release!!!
http://www.defendmichael.com/
Please be polite but firm. I believe the only way these hearings will take place is if the American people demand them.
Thank You
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/09/obama-policy-setting-troop-killers-free-iraq
Obama policy setting troop killers free in Iraq
By: Kieran Lalor | 10/01/11 8:05 AM
Special to The Examiner
If a cop and a promising student were gunned down and the shooter was caught, only to be freed after four years, the outrage would be palpable. Politicos would fall all over themselves to register their indignation and the press would be on it for weeks.
It happened in the case of New York State Trooper John McKenna and Pace University law student Michael Glover, who were serving in Iraq with the Marine Corps Reserve. Yet this story is virtually unknown, even though the injustice is enormous and systemic.
Five years ago, Lance Cpl. Glover, having put a scholarship on hold to volunteer for combat duty in Iraq, was the pointman on a patrol outside of Fallujah when he was killed by a sniper's bullet. Capt. McKenna, Glover's platoon commander, earned a posthumous Silver Star for giving his life in an attempt to save Glover.
Months later, U.S. troops captured their killer, Muhammad Awwad Ahmad. Recently, the families of the fallen learned from the Defense Department U.S. forces turned Ahmad over to Iraqi authorities in June 2010, and that an Iraqi court set him free four months later.
Glover and McKenna are dead and buried, but the man who killed them roams free to kill more Americans. Unfortunately, this miscarriage of justice is not an isolated incident. It is a policy of the Obama administration.
Under the Iraq Security Agreement signed by the Bush administration in 2008, all detainees left in Iraq by the end of 2011 have to be turned over to the Iraqis. For the most part, the Bush White House was giving the pickpockets and common criminals over to the Iraqis but moving dangerous terrorists who had killed Americans to places like Guantanamo Bay to be held for military trials.
The Obama administration wanted to shutter Gitmo and believed that enemy combatants captured on overseas battlefields deserved federal civilian trials. When American public opinion thwarted this policy, Obama found himself boxed into a self-created ideological corner. Rather than adjust the flawed position, the administration began turning over to the Iraqis even non-Iraqi terrorists who killed Americans in Iraq.
In July, the administration tried quietly to transfer Ali Mousa Daqduq, a Lebanese Hezbollah commander working at the behest of the Iranians, over to Iraqi authorities. Among other acts of terror, Daqduq masterminded the killing of five American soldiers. A group of U.S. senators wrote the Pentagon to prevent Daqduq’s transfer because it was almost certain he'd be released or allowed to escape. The administration has yet to turn him over, but remains committed to doing so by year's end.
Most media reports about Daqduq and other dangerous detainees being transferred to Iraqi authorities give the impression that this is an aberration, and that the Obama administration's hands are tied by the agreement signed by the previous administration. Nonsense. The Obama administration can still detain terrorist outside Iraq, rather than hand them over to the Iraqis so they can be turned loose to kill again.
Every service member who picked up a rifle or manned a post in the last 10 years did so with the goal of killing or capturing the likes of Muhammad Awwad Ahmad and Ali Mousa Daqduq. The Obama administration is undoing their hard work.
Kieran Lalor is a Marine Corps veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the founder of Afghanistan & Iraq Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/09/obama-policy-setting-troop-killers-free-iraq#ixzz1ZpRPeUGa
If you would like more information or know a wounded warrior or disabled vet, feel free to email us at military@AnyStreet.org.
Definition of a Veteran:
“A veteran - whether Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard or retired - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America”,for an amount of “up to and including my life.”
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Made the call. Sounded like some snotty nosed kid just listened blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I'll pass it on...blah, blah, blah. A suggestion would be1. Get his complete name when he answers the phone. 2. ask them to please, write this down for Buck McKeon - word for word - (remember, keep it short and simple). When done ask ???? to read it back to you word for word. See if ??? is really listening and following your instructions. If not call AGAIN till ??? gets it right. Insist on being heard! It's your right! Now, make the call(s). Wingmanl
Thank you Wingman and Thank You AnyStreet, and all you Freepers that are calling Buck McKeon’s office requesting Congressional Hearings on the ROE’s and the catch and release policy (see previous email sent) It seems as though everyone has forgotten about our troops! Really, we are the only ones reminding these elected officials that our troops are fighting terrorists, AND with one hand tied behind their backs, ie, we need these Congressional Hearings!! AND if we are releasing terrorists, why are our Sons still sitting in Leavenworth?! Why are we allowing terrorists who have admitted to killing American Soldiers, sign a Pledge that they won't return to the battlefield, and then we let them go, why aren't our Sons in Leavenworth given the same Pledge and allowed to go home to their families?!! Here are some links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/world/asia/24reconcile.html?src=mv
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/09/obama-policy-setting-troop-killers-free-iraq
Yesterday, we had several people tell us they were also getting the standard response of “Please call your Congressman and Senator”, so if you wouldn't mind, please call them too!
AND one more thing, we have set-up a website regarding the “3000” Soldiers they are thinking of leaving behind in Iraq.
http://the3000.wordpress.com/
Please leave your comment and if your or any organizations you know want to sign onto this letter, please let me know. We plan to turn this letter over to the media at the end of October so the more organizations we have, the better! We are running out of time as the plan is to withdraw troops by the end of the year with the exception of 3000 (we already lost 3000 Americans in one day). Sadr has threatened the lives of any American Soldiers left behind. Please read our letter at the website, I think you will agree with our request. Please forward this on and THANK YOU all so very much. Our troops need us now more than ever!
We hope the Tea Party folks will sign on to this letter too! They have always supported our Military and I am so very grateful!
Thank You!
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers
The aid I spoke with (Oscar). There got the name spelled correctly this time, was courteous and willing to hear me out. I explained I had a nephew and other extended family member putting in multiple tours in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. He showed no sign of being dis-courteous, and when I asked him if there would be any public committee hearings on the issue coming up soon, he said that there was no date set currently. He thanked me for calling.
Thanks for sharing info about your call. I am sure they will be courteous to all of us, and we to them.
Glad he told you they were receiving lots of calls. Sometimes when I make calls I wonder. And I hope folks don’t just think others will make calls so they don’t need to because it really only works when they receive LOTS of calls.
Remember they consider the number of calls they receive as about 10% of the number of folks who “wanted” to call. WE NEED that 10% to be a VERY LARGE NUMBER! :)
You got that right.
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