CULTURE WARS
ISIS, GITMO AND OBAMA'S FAILURE TO VETERANS
Exclusive: Chuck Norris blasts White House for neglecting America's heroes
Back in June, President Obama authorized hundreds of additional U.S. troops to deploy into Iraq to boost local forces fighting ISIS. A little over a week ago, Obama also authorized American boots on the ground in Syria to fight ISIS there.
It is unfortunate that U.S. troops have to mop up again for the trial-and-error tragic Middle East strategies and oversights of the White House. But such reversals of course seem to be par for the course for this administration.
Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta personally warned Obama during his tenure that completely vacating Iraq would create a greater vacuum for the growth of terrorists like ISIS.
Panetta explained, “I think when we stepped out of Iraq, in many ways, we created this vacuum in which not a lot of attention was paid to what was happening in Iraq or what was happening in Syria with the extremists who were developing a base of operations. That combination, plus obviously not getting all of the intelligence that we should’ve had on it, I think is what produced the ISIS that we’re confronting today.”
It is bad enough that Obama is sending U.S. troops into harm’s way on account of the White House’s own mistakes. It is quite another thing when our servicemen get home that the White House continues to fail them with the follow through in their post-war care.
In 2014, the White House’s own report concluded the VA has “significant and chronic systemic failures.”
On Nov. 5, just a few days ago, the Military Times reported that the VA denied benefits to thousands of living vets because the agency’s records showed them as deceased. The report explained, “[The] VA continues to be plagued by missteps, including an internal report indicating that nearly one-third of veterans with pending applications for VA health care likely have already died.”
So aloof is the present Democrat hierarchy to our veterans that the Military Times reported in August of this year that the Democratic National Committee mistook foreign vets for American vets. The DNC’s “‘Veterans and Military Families’ website had as its only picture a shot from White House photographers during President Obama’s visit to Warsaw in 2011.”
Despite Obama’s own repeated commitment to end veteran homelessness, it is estimated that 50,000 veterans remain among the 600,000 homeless in America. Despite Obama tripling the amount of money to get homeless veterans off the street and boasting that a third of them have found homes, Politifact reported: “The one-year estimate of sheltered veterans does not support the 33 percent number Obama offered. According to the most recent data, there were just 6.5 percent fewer homeless veterans from 2009 to 2013.”
And yet, Obama has had great success in empowering and enabling Islamic jihadists and also helping them to find their homes abroad and even in the U.S. The FBI recently warned us that 900-plus ISIS operatives are presently being investigated inside the U.S. – in every state of the union – and that they are actively recruiting U.S. teens and trying to hack major U.S. power grids. In addition, there were 240 jihadists in Guantanamo when Obama took office. Thanks to Obama’s care for them, there are now only 112 Islamic extremists left there, and he shortly plans to close down the Cuban facility by executive action and relocate the remaining jihadists to U.S. prisons.
And who can forget that the suicide rate among veterans remains at an all-time high? In fact, it’s even increased for recent veterans. As the Los Angeles Times reported, “Recent veterans have committed suicide at a much higher rate than people who never served in the military, according to a new analysis that provides the most thorough accounting so far of the problem … roughly 50% higher than the rate among other civilians with similar demographic characteristics.”
On the eve of this Veterans Day (Nov. 11), it is high time the White House quits making a mockery of our troops abroad and quits neglecting our veterans’ post-war care at home.
And if Washington can’t get it right, then I encourage Americans and American businesses everywhere to extend their gratitude in any way this Veteran’s Day by showing those who have served just how much we appreciate them. If you’re at a loss for a local way to do that, then consider making a donation to charities like the Wounded Warrior Project, Cars for Veterans, or Blue Star Mothers of America.
Let us pray for those troops who are once again being sent back into Iraq and Syria to risk sacrificing life and limb in the battle against America’s enemies. And let us pray for their families who say goodbye to their loved ones and are apart from them this holiday season.
My family and I understand these types of military sacrifices. My father fought in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge. I served four years in the Air Force. My brother, Aaron, served in the Army, and our brother, Wieland, was killed in action in Vietnam when he walked point alone and drew out enemy fire so that others in his platoon could fight their way out to freedom. Many souls were saved on that day because of my brother’s bravery. (My mom wrote a chapter on each of us, and for the first time tells Wieland’s war story at length in her autobiography, “Acts of Kindness: My Story.” Here she is talking about it on Fox’s “Huckabee” show.)
This Veterans Day, my wife, Gena, and I join millions of patriots everywhere to honor and salute all of America’s veterans, pray for those active in service, and humbly bow in thanks for our fallen heroes who gave their lives that we might live ours.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/isis-gitmo-and-obamas-failure-to-veterans/#8EErj2LUFWIqcOKk.99My comments: America's Veterans are Expendable to Obama. He is busy TRANSFORMING America and that is ALL he cares about. Obama is a Traitor to America as virtually every action he takes Demonstrates.
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