Joe Biden's Betrayal of SEALs should Doom his 2020 Presidential Run

Democrat Joe Biden has been lurking in the 2020 presidential shadows being presented by those with their 2020 fingers crossed as an adult in the romper room of pubescent progressives waiting for their Spartacus moments as they learn the complexities of basic math and leadership skills.

Biden was the top choice for 28 percent of likely Democratic primary voters surveyed in a recent University of Massachusetts Amherst poll, despite his not having declared a 2020 presidential bid. Yet while critics of President Trump’s foreign policy accuse him of a degree of recklessness and immaturity that place the nation’s security at risk, Biden’s service in an administration that gave us the criminal negligence and incompetence of Benghazi, provides us with an example of why he should not be trusted with the nation’s security or the lives of its heroes.

As author and attorney David Shestoksas points out in his review of Betrayed: The Shocking The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL's Father, Biden betrayed the heroes that killed Osama Bin Laden to further his political ambitions:

On May 1, 2011, Aaron Carson Vaughn, member of America’s elite special operations force, Seal Team VI, called his father, Billy Vaughn and exclaimed:

“Dad, we got him!”

The elder Vaughn asked: “Got who, son?”

Aaron Vaughn replied: “Who do you think? Go turn on the TV.”[1]
On television shortly thereafter, President Obama declared to the nation that Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the deadly attacks of September 11, 2001 was dead.

Vice-President Biden Applauds and Endangers the Seals

I’ve typed this many times!

Biden has had 3 deep invasive brain surgeries. Even one can change your personality.According to neurosurgeons I have talked to, one of the most common changes is a weakening of self control. I think we see this in Biden’s “touchy-feely” behavior in public and if the Secret Service stories are true his naked bathing in front of female Secret Service officers. So Biden purported to have an inability to keep his yap shut about a significant event shouldn’t surprise us.

What is surprising is the lack of discussion about Biden’s medical history and the fact it makes him potentially unfit for the office. Remember the “nuclear football” and how Rats claimed that frat boy “W Bush” was too emotionally immature to have control of it.

“The up and coming young voters in this country.....live in a TV commercial...”

That is the most perfect summation of these `voters’ I have ever read. Always thought their national anthem should be “Royals”, sung by Lorde. Vacuous beings who will vote for whoever promises them the most free stuff.

BTW, I had forgotten about Biden’s betrayal of the SEALs. He is a despicable person.

Presidents are mostly shooting stars - look at Trump, Obama, W Bush, and Clinton - and nobody has been elected POTUS after having first held statewide 20 years before at least attaining the VP office. Carter, less that a decade after election to Governor of GA, Reagan, 14 years after election as Governor of CA . . .

If anything dooms his candidacy, it’ll be his age.

. . . and his “service” time. Biden was a senator back when Clarence Thomas was being confirmed - he first held statewide office in 1973. He became VP in ’09, 36 years later.
There’s a first time for everything, but . . .

Then there are THESE very disturbing reasons...

I can’t stand Biden, but he had NOTHING to do with this incident!

“Just three months earlier, members of a counterpart SEAL Team 6 squadron successfully raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed Osama bin Laden. In light of that raid’s success, the shootdown of Extortion 17 incited a flurry of conspiracy theories: The Taliban were tipped off; it was a trap; it was retribution for the killing. No evidence has emerged to support any of these claims. Instead, two rigorous U. S. military investigations followed every moment of the mission to determine what went wrong on Extortion 17’s final flight.

“...members of a counterpart SEAL Team 6 squadron...”

Sounds like it wasn’t even the same guys!

They did have an AC-130 overhead for support, but they were ordered not to engage. And that was once again for fear of killing a single person that wasn’t directly carrying an AK-47 at the moment. And every infantry officer in the first week learns not to put all your machine guns on one helicopter.
Nothing but an idiot would deploy an entire platoon of seals into a firefight on an enormous ch-47.

Two or three black hawks would have made a lot more sense

And using expensive Spec Ops in the place of regular infantry is a terrible misuse of SOF forces that are extremely expensive to train.
And in a straight out firefight they are no better than a random marine rifle platoon.

Think of all the months of expensive training they do to learn to parachute, to learn to Halo, to learn scuba on several different types of systems, to learn to operate with extreme skill on relatively unique Radio Systems, photography, assaulting ships underway, intelligence gathering. Small boat navigation and dozens of other things.
None of those skills help you in a firefight and only waste their unique skills.

The murder of those seals lies at the feet of the incompetence of our flag rank Army and navy officers.

Our seals were killed by incompetent leadership.

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