Obama's Illegal Prisoner Exchange
The prisoner swap Barack Obama just arranged may be the stupidest decision to
come out of the White House in the past six years.
But it's even worse than that. It's put every member of our armed forces at even greater risk. And by emboldening the terrorists who believe they are waging a holy war against us, it's increased the danger that every citizen of this country could become the victim of a hijacking, a hostage-taking or another form of terrorist attack.
Brad Thor, a best-selling author with deep ties in military and intelligence circles, didn't mince words when he described the effects of Obama's actions. "The President has just put a target on the back of all Americans," he warned in an appearance on Greta van Susteren's FOX News show. Thor said that our diplomats and American civilians traveling abroad are now in even greater danger of being taken hostage than our military. "Every American should be terrified by that," he said.
Needless to say, the Taliban view what has happened as a "great victory." Taliban leader Mullah Omar declared, "We shall thank almighty for this great victory. The sacrifice of our Mujahedin have resulted in the release of our senior leaders from the hand of the enemy."
In the face of a growing backlash against the prisoner exchange, guess what the Administration did? It sent Susan Rice, of Benghazi talking points fame, back on the Sunday morning talk shows. And once again, the lady told a whopper. Appearing on ABC News' "This Week," Rice said, "Sgt. Bergdahl wasn't simply a hostage, he was an American prisoner of war, captured on the battlefield."
Turns out that this is nowhere near the truth. Bergdahl wasn't captured on the battlefield, he walked away from his post. Several of the men who were stationed with him say he was a deserter. The New York Times reports that he "left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life."
Doesn't sound much like an American hero, does he? But wait, it gets worse. Prior to leaving his post, Bergdahl sent an email to his parents in which he said, "I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools. . The horror that is America is disgusting."
Wow! Sure doesn't sound like someone you'd want to risk your life rescuing, does it? But it turns out, that is exactly what our troops in the area were ordered to do. After Bergdahl walked away from his post in June 2009, the Army mounted several operations to try to find him. At least six soldiers were killed during those efforts.
Sgt. Matt Vierkant, one of the soldiers who served in Bergdahl's platoon, was interviewed by CNN. His disgust and anger were obvious: "I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on," he said. And he added, "Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him." Vierkant says that he wants to see Bergdahl face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Army 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews was one of the soldiers killed while hunting for Bergdahl. He was shot to death in an ambush while on patrol in an area near where Bergdahl vanished. When she learned of the exchange that gained Bergdahl's release, Andrews' mother told Army Times:
"It gets really hurtful when I think, this guy was worth my son's life? My son who was patriotic? Who was a true soldier? Who defended his country with his life? That guy was worth that? I don't think so."
Hard to disagree with her, isn't it?
Bergdahl was a private first class when he disappeared five years ago. Since then, he was promoted to the rank of staff sergeant, because that is what would have happened had he remained on duty, re-enlisted and continued to serve honorably - three assumptions that now seem to be very questionable. Nevertheless, that is why he is referred to now as Sgt. Bergdahl, not Pfc. Bergdahl.
Faced with questions about Bergdahl's actions, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that Bergdahl will be disciplined if the Army finds any evidence of misconduct. "Our Army's leaders will not look away from misconduct if it occurred," Dempsey promised. But he added that Bergdahl must be regarded as innocent until he is proven guilty. And that in any case, the military will continue to care for him and his family, as of course it should.
Make no mistake about it, the five prisoners that Obama released are all serious bad guys. Two years ago, James Clapper, who was the Director of National Intelligence at the time, described all five terrorists as "too dangerous to release." But things are apparently different now.
The United States has had a long-standing policy, respected by both Republican and Democrat Administrations, of never negotiating with terrorists. Obama has tossed that one on the scrap pile.
The President has said for years that he wants to close the U.S. Navy facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer the terrorists who are being held there to prisons in this country. Back in 2009, the Senate voted 90-6 in opposition to the Obama plan.
Last year, Congress passed a law demanding that the White House notify Congress 30 days in advance of any plans to transfer any of the jihadists being held at Guantanamo. Obama signed the measure, but at the same time he issued a signing statement saying that that part of the law was probably unConstitutional and that he didn't feel obligated to obey it.
This was a 180-degree switch from what candidate Obama said when he was first running for the Presidency. Back in 2007, he was quick to denounce his predecessor, George W. Bush, for issuing such disclaimers. And he promised, "We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress."
But as I said, that was then and this is now. Now, Obama needed to do something to get the Veterans Affairs scandal out of the headlines and off the front page. What better way to do it than to bring home an American prisoner of war?
A year ago, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked about rumors of a possible prisoner swap using Guantanamo detainees. Here's what he said on June 21, 2013: "As we have long said, however, we would not make any decisions about transfer of any detainees without consulting with Congress and without doing so in accordance with U.S. law."
Guess what? Turns out that was another White House whopper.
In a classic example of too little, too late, the White House decided to call some key lawmakers this past Monday - two days after announcing the prisoner exchange - to apologize for the "oversight" in not notifying them sooner. Time will tell if this is enough to appease Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), their parties' leaders on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
By his actions, Obama has emboldened our enemies, discouraged our service members and increased the danger to every American citizen. Thor said he has put a target on the back of every one of us.
In saner times, this would be enough to start rumblings about impeachment. But, of course, we aren't living in sane times. The Federal government has become one vast insane asylum - with the most dangerous inmates running the show.
Let's hope there are still enough patriots left who want to make some big changes in this sorry situation. We'll have a chance to do so this November.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
-Chip Wood
But it's even worse than that. It's put every member of our armed forces at even greater risk. And by emboldening the terrorists who believe they are waging a holy war against us, it's increased the danger that every citizen of this country could become the victim of a hijacking, a hostage-taking or another form of terrorist attack.
Brad Thor, a best-selling author with deep ties in military and intelligence circles, didn't mince words when he described the effects of Obama's actions. "The President has just put a target on the back of all Americans," he warned in an appearance on Greta van Susteren's FOX News show. Thor said that our diplomats and American civilians traveling abroad are now in even greater danger of being taken hostage than our military. "Every American should be terrified by that," he said.
Needless to say, the Taliban view what has happened as a "great victory." Taliban leader Mullah Omar declared, "We shall thank almighty for this great victory. The sacrifice of our Mujahedin have resulted in the release of our senior leaders from the hand of the enemy."
In the face of a growing backlash against the prisoner exchange, guess what the Administration did? It sent Susan Rice, of Benghazi talking points fame, back on the Sunday morning talk shows. And once again, the lady told a whopper. Appearing on ABC News' "This Week," Rice said, "Sgt. Bergdahl wasn't simply a hostage, he was an American prisoner of war, captured on the battlefield."
Turns out that this is nowhere near the truth. Bergdahl wasn't captured on the battlefield, he walked away from his post. Several of the men who were stationed with him say he was a deserter. The New York Times reports that he "left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life."
Doesn't sound much like an American hero, does he? But wait, it gets worse. Prior to leaving his post, Bergdahl sent an email to his parents in which he said, "I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools. . The horror that is America is disgusting."
Wow! Sure doesn't sound like someone you'd want to risk your life rescuing, does it? But it turns out, that is exactly what our troops in the area were ordered to do. After Bergdahl walked away from his post in June 2009, the Army mounted several operations to try to find him. At least six soldiers were killed during those efforts.
Sgt. Matt Vierkant, one of the soldiers who served in Bergdahl's platoon, was interviewed by CNN. His disgust and anger were obvious: "I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on," he said. And he added, "Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him." Vierkant says that he wants to see Bergdahl face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Army 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews was one of the soldiers killed while hunting for Bergdahl. He was shot to death in an ambush while on patrol in an area near where Bergdahl vanished. When she learned of the exchange that gained Bergdahl's release, Andrews' mother told Army Times:
"It gets really hurtful when I think, this guy was worth my son's life? My son who was patriotic? Who was a true soldier? Who defended his country with his life? That guy was worth that? I don't think so."
Hard to disagree with her, isn't it?
Bergdahl was a private first class when he disappeared five years ago. Since then, he was promoted to the rank of staff sergeant, because that is what would have happened had he remained on duty, re-enlisted and continued to serve honorably - three assumptions that now seem to be very questionable. Nevertheless, that is why he is referred to now as Sgt. Bergdahl, not Pfc. Bergdahl.
Faced with questions about Bergdahl's actions, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that Bergdahl will be disciplined if the Army finds any evidence of misconduct. "Our Army's leaders will not look away from misconduct if it occurred," Dempsey promised. But he added that Bergdahl must be regarded as innocent until he is proven guilty. And that in any case, the military will continue to care for him and his family, as of course it should.
Make no mistake about it, the five prisoners that Obama released are all serious bad guys. Two years ago, James Clapper, who was the Director of National Intelligence at the time, described all five terrorists as "too dangerous to release." But things are apparently different now.
The United States has had a long-standing policy, respected by both Republican and Democrat Administrations, of never negotiating with terrorists. Obama has tossed that one on the scrap pile.
The President has said for years that he wants to close the U.S. Navy facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer the terrorists who are being held there to prisons in this country. Back in 2009, the Senate voted 90-6 in opposition to the Obama plan.
Last year, Congress passed a law demanding that the White House notify Congress 30 days in advance of any plans to transfer any of the jihadists being held at Guantanamo. Obama signed the measure, but at the same time he issued a signing statement saying that that part of the law was probably unConstitutional and that he didn't feel obligated to obey it.
This was a 180-degree switch from what candidate Obama said when he was first running for the Presidency. Back in 2007, he was quick to denounce his predecessor, George W. Bush, for issuing such disclaimers. And he promised, "We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress."
But as I said, that was then and this is now. Now, Obama needed to do something to get the Veterans Affairs scandal out of the headlines and off the front page. What better way to do it than to bring home an American prisoner of war?
A year ago, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked about rumors of a possible prisoner swap using Guantanamo detainees. Here's what he said on June 21, 2013: "As we have long said, however, we would not make any decisions about transfer of any detainees without consulting with Congress and without doing so in accordance with U.S. law."
Guess what? Turns out that was another White House whopper.
In a classic example of too little, too late, the White House decided to call some key lawmakers this past Monday - two days after announcing the prisoner exchange - to apologize for the "oversight" in not notifying them sooner. Time will tell if this is enough to appease Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), their parties' leaders on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
By his actions, Obama has emboldened our enemies, discouraged our service members and increased the danger to every American citizen. Thor said he has put a target on the back of every one of us.
In saner times, this would be enough to start rumblings about impeachment. But, of course, we aren't living in sane times. The Federal government has become one vast insane asylum - with the most dangerous inmates running the show.
Let's hope there are still enough patriots left who want to make some big changes in this sorry situation. We'll have a chance to do so this November.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
-Chip Wood
Talking To The Taliban: A Crisis Of Leadership
All things being equal, the safe return of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from his more
than five years of captivity in the hands of the Taliban would be cause for pure
joy. After all, an American serviceman is returning to the heart of liberty from
the depths of islamofascist hell. Unfortunately, as is seemingly always the case
with President Barack Obama's pigeon-toed stumble through his tenure, all things
are not equal. In fact, with every new detail that comes to light
regarding Bergdahl's release, the situation seems all the more unbalanced - and
not in America's favor.
Granted, Obama has never demonstrated any hesitation when it comes to acting unilaterally, regardless of legal and/or Constitutional constraints. But his decision to release five of the worst people on the planet without notifying Congress is as much a violation of the law as robbing a bank. And negotiating with islamofascists who believe lying is divinely acceptable defies every tenet of basic leadership skills at the geopolitical level.
Look, I'm willing to accept the idea that Bergdahl was worth five Taliban. Hell, all things being equal, one of our guys is worth a thousand of theirs. But it looks increasingly likely that Bergdahl wasn't so much one of our guys as he was one of his own. According to multiple reports, Bergdahl deserted his unit in Afghanistan, leaving behind words like "I'm ashamed to even be American." Look, I'd rather have Bergdahl home and facing a court martial than leave him to rot in the clutches of captors who make Charles Manson look like Mother Teresa.
And these are the guys we're going to trust not to go back to killing every non-islamofascist they can get inside the blast radius of a suicide vest? These are the guys to whom Obama traded five top performers in return for a guy who should at least have known the risks of walking outside the wire at a forward operating base in Afghanistan? And these are the guys whose whereabouts we're going to entrust to the Qataris? Not that I bear the boys of Doha any particular animus (they were willing to buy Al Gore's weird knockoff of MSNBC), but how long will they be able to keep their peepers on five scurvy rats? It's not like the CIA can do it, since Obama keeps outing their top field agents.
With Obama already sporting the worst foreign-relations record since President Jimmy Carter face-planted in the Iranian desert, the idea that he would celebrate getting played by lunatics like the Taliban seems a bit counterintuitive. Let's be honest: President Peace Prize hasn't exactly been tearing it up of late. If it gets much worse, they're going to be throwing press conferences in the Rose Garden every time Obama saves par on that tricky dogleg at Windermere. If I were Obama, I'd be looking for more flash than "we just traded five serial killers for a guy who's on the fence about America."
More than a few people have suggested that Obama swapped the "Taliban 5" for Bergdahl in an effort to distract public attention from the latest scandal to ensnare his Administration. Ironically, it's a scandal involving his treatment - or the lack thereof - of the same people the Taliban 5 have sworn their minions' lives to kill and with whom Bergdahl was ashamed to share citizenship.
Whatever his reasons, Obama has once again snatched embarrassment from the jaws of pride. What might have been a small victory in a very large war has become yet another question mark on Obama's already-spotty record. Obama's decision to illegally trade five Taliban Neanderthals with artillery for one alleged deserter is an epic failure of leadership. It's a direct threat to the men and women who wear our uniform without being "ashamed." Worst of all - and mark my words - Obama will face little more than rhetorical condemnations like this one.
-Ben Crystal
Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Beirut Wednesday June 4 was part and parcel of the new turn in Obama administration policy, which is to start engaging directly with Arab governments backed by pro-Iranian terrorist organizations like the Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas. The first visit to Beirut in five years by a US secretary of state came two days after Washington rushed to accept and continue funding the Hamas-backed Palestinian government installed in Ramallah.
On his arrival in Lebanon, Kerry made some awkward comments:
"We do not recognize the government of Palestine - that would mean we recognize a state." He added that the US will continue to work with the new Palestinian unity government "as we need to" and will monitor daily its policies to ensure it "doesn't cross the line."
A leading member of the Lebanese government is Hezbollah, which is classed in the US as a terrorist organization. By talking with Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Kerry articulated the new rule: Washington will maintain ties with a government, whether in Beirut or Ramallah, so long as it "doesn't cross the line."
At the same time, the US Secretary delivered into the hands of the Lebanese government a half billion dollar check for the Syrian refugees sheltering in Lebanon, ignoring the fact that its member, Hezbollah, has crossed many lines by fighting for President Bashar Assad in the Syria civil war, and the death and destruction Hezbollah helped inflict had put those refugees to flight.
But Kerry avoided defining the lines that must not be crossed and saying how the administration would respond if they were.
Talking to journalists later, Kerry himself crossed a line to new ground, when he said:
"Iran, Russia and Hezbollah must engage in a legitimate effort to bring this war to an end,"
This was the first time a US Secretary of State has explicitly invited Hezbollah, whose forces are fighting in Syrian under Iranian command, to be part of the quest for a political resolution of the Syrian war and accepted the Moscow-Tehran-Beirut axis as a critical partner in this effort. Up until now, Kerry insisted in leaving Iran and Hezbollah out of US discussions with Moscow on the Syrian crisis.
Senior sources in Jerusalem sharply criticized Washington's embrace of the most violent and radical of Middle East terrorist organizations. They saw no difference between the openness to Iran and Hezbollah exhibited by Kerry in Beirut and the administration's readiness to do business with the Palestinian unity government backed to the hilt by Hamas.
According to those sources, by Thursday morning June 5, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had determined to go head-on against the new Obama administration line with a confrontation in the US Congress over its support for the Palestinian unity government.
Netanyahu will seek, with the aid of the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby, to get a law passed banning the continued transfer of US financial aid of approximately $500,000 a year to the Ramallah government, over its backing by the Hamas terrorist organization.
debkafile's sources in Washington don't expect this move to succeed. Even if the both houses of Congress enact such legislation - and that is doubtful - the president has enough legal and administrative resources to circumvent it.
Justice stands afar off and truth is fallen - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
This president is notorious for breaking the law. He released 36,007 criminal aliens convicted of murder, rape, kidnapping and assault, sold guns to Mexican drug dealers, refused to enforce marriage laws, allowed thugs to prevent white people from voting in Philadelphia, negotiates with terrorists, and funds the enemies of America and puts the weight of the White House behind overthrowing governments on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood. Is there no end to impeachable offenses and high crimes and misdemeanors perpetrated by this man? Yet the best the opposition party can muster is found in South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's remarks: if he does it again, we'll call for impeachment.
Graham was talking about releasing terrorist combatants from Guantanamo Bay without congressional approval. The Hill reports Graham as saying, "It's going to be impossible for them to flow prisoners out of Gitmo now without a huge backlash. There will be people on our side calling for his impeachment if he did that." In typical communist propaganda rhetoric, Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee Carl Levin said, "The White House did not comply with the requirement of the 30-day provision. However, the White House said it had power under Article II of the Constitution to do what it did." He said congress was notified that the president was not going to follow the law.
Not all congressmen are as a wimpy or ridiculous in their statements. Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger, ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee, told the Baltimore Sun, "Since World War Two we have not negotiated with terrorists or other groups. What concerns me is the future. This puts all Americans at risk throughout the world, including our men and women on the front line...for kidnapping." Finally, someone tells the truth about the consequences of the president's reckless action against the American people, but still no one is stepping forward with measures to bring this rogue Marxist Islamist to justice on behalf of the American people.
I am told by private sources that there are two reasons politicians of both parties will allow this president to remain in office: 1) they are afraid of impeaching the first president of color, and 2) Republicans do not have control of the Senate to make impeachment stick. Right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter what race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality the perpetrator is. Isn't that what our nondiscrimination laws say? Have we become an Isaiah 59:14 people: "And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter"? If so, these leaders are a reflection of who we are. We need to get serious about the Great Commission.
Of outrage and treason - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
The occupant of the Oval Office Saturday announced the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five of the most dangerous terrorists in custody. The elated father of Sgt. Bergdahl, Bob, took the podium at the White House and said, "I'd like to say to Bowe right now, who is having trouble speaking English, "bism allah alrahman alraheem. I am your father, Bowe." The president smiled his approval. No mainstream media, nor did the White House, translate the phrase. They all just put in parenthesis "(speaks in Pashto)." Father Bob, sporting a traditional Islamic beard, said from the White House: "In the name of allah, the most gracious, and most merciful." It is the phrase that opens every chapter of the Koran.
The details that have emerged since then are alarming. They appear to be pieces of a puzzle that implicate Bergdahl as a deserter and the president as a lawbreaker who may have committed treason. The Administration rolled out their faithful liar for the talk shows--National Security Advisor, the infamous Susan Rice of the Benghazi catastrophe, said, "Sergeant Bergdahl wasn't simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield." Rice, who had said the attack in Benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Mohammad video, was on point spinning another yarn for it seems that Bergdahl actually deserted and converted to Islam. His father would seem to have confirmed such.
The UK Daily Mail reports that Afghan intelligence officials say Bergdahl converted to Islam and was training his "captors" in US ambush tactics. The NY Times reports "Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life." There are reports that two soldiers were killed in an ambush while searching for Bergdahl. But there is a deeper issue than Bergdahl. The president, according to lawmakers and prosecutors, violated the laws which require him to notify Congress 30 days before any transfer of terrorists from Guantanamo Bay.
Rice's admission that Bergdahl was a prisoner of war also means that the president not only violated the law, but may have committed a treasonous act. He traded affirmed enemies of the state for a deserter who aided and abetted the enemy, notwithstanding his alleged conversion to Islam. The president appears to have committed a high crime and misdemeanor--an impeachable offense--and aiding and abetting the enemy during wartime, a treasonous offense. He also bragged about it from the White House, lending an approving smile while allah was being praised.
Is it not obvious what is going on here? Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you." 2 John 7 says, "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." Embracing allah means denying Christ. No two ways about it. Our nation has suffered a coup. Suspend your disbelief.
Granted, Obama has never demonstrated any hesitation when it comes to acting unilaterally, regardless of legal and/or Constitutional constraints. But his decision to release five of the worst people on the planet without notifying Congress is as much a violation of the law as robbing a bank. And negotiating with islamofascists who believe lying is divinely acceptable defies every tenet of basic leadership skills at the geopolitical level.
Look, I'm willing to accept the idea that Bergdahl was worth five Taliban. Hell, all things being equal, one of our guys is worth a thousand of theirs. But it looks increasingly likely that Bergdahl wasn't so much one of our guys as he was one of his own. According to multiple reports, Bergdahl deserted his unit in Afghanistan, leaving behind words like "I'm ashamed to even be American." Look, I'd rather have Bergdahl home and facing a court martial than leave him to rot in the clutches of captors who make Charles Manson look like Mother Teresa.
And these are the guys we're going to trust not to go back to killing every non-islamofascist they can get inside the blast radius of a suicide vest? These are the guys to whom Obama traded five top performers in return for a guy who should at least have known the risks of walking outside the wire at a forward operating base in Afghanistan? And these are the guys whose whereabouts we're going to entrust to the Qataris? Not that I bear the boys of Doha any particular animus (they were willing to buy Al Gore's weird knockoff of MSNBC), but how long will they be able to keep their peepers on five scurvy rats? It's not like the CIA can do it, since Obama keeps outing their top field agents.
With Obama already sporting the worst foreign-relations record since President Jimmy Carter face-planted in the Iranian desert, the idea that he would celebrate getting played by lunatics like the Taliban seems a bit counterintuitive. Let's be honest: President Peace Prize hasn't exactly been tearing it up of late. If it gets much worse, they're going to be throwing press conferences in the Rose Garden every time Obama saves par on that tricky dogleg at Windermere. If I were Obama, I'd be looking for more flash than "we just traded five serial killers for a guy who's on the fence about America."
More than a few people have suggested that Obama swapped the "Taliban 5" for Bergdahl in an effort to distract public attention from the latest scandal to ensnare his Administration. Ironically, it's a scandal involving his treatment - or the lack thereof - of the same people the Taliban 5 have sworn their minions' lives to kill and with whom Bergdahl was ashamed to share citizenship.
Whatever his reasons, Obama has once again snatched embarrassment from the jaws of pride. What might have been a small victory in a very large war has become yet another question mark on Obama's already-spotty record. Obama's decision to illegally trade five Taliban Neanderthals with artillery for one alleged deserter is an epic failure of leadership. It's a direct threat to the men and women who wear our uniform without being "ashamed." Worst of all - and mark my words - Obama will face little more than rhetorical condemnations like this one.
-Ben Crystal
Kerry in Beirut promotes US
engagement with pro-Iranian Hezbollah terrorists, after Hamas -
http://www.debka.com/article/23971/Kerry-in-Beirut-promotes-US-engagement-with-pro-Iranian-Hizballah-terrorists-after-Hamas-
Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Beirut Wednesday June 4 was part and parcel of the new turn in Obama administration policy, which is to start engaging directly with Arab governments backed by pro-Iranian terrorist organizations like the Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas. The first visit to Beirut in five years by a US secretary of state came two days after Washington rushed to accept and continue funding the Hamas-backed Palestinian government installed in Ramallah.
On his arrival in Lebanon, Kerry made some awkward comments:
"We do not recognize the government of Palestine - that would mean we recognize a state." He added that the US will continue to work with the new Palestinian unity government "as we need to" and will monitor daily its policies to ensure it "doesn't cross the line."
A leading member of the Lebanese government is Hezbollah, which is classed in the US as a terrorist organization. By talking with Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Kerry articulated the new rule: Washington will maintain ties with a government, whether in Beirut or Ramallah, so long as it "doesn't cross the line."
At the same time, the US Secretary delivered into the hands of the Lebanese government a half billion dollar check for the Syrian refugees sheltering in Lebanon, ignoring the fact that its member, Hezbollah, has crossed many lines by fighting for President Bashar Assad in the Syria civil war, and the death and destruction Hezbollah helped inflict had put those refugees to flight.
But Kerry avoided defining the lines that must not be crossed and saying how the administration would respond if they were.
Talking to journalists later, Kerry himself crossed a line to new ground, when he said:
"Iran, Russia and Hezbollah must engage in a legitimate effort to bring this war to an end,"
This was the first time a US Secretary of State has explicitly invited Hezbollah, whose forces are fighting in Syrian under Iranian command, to be part of the quest for a political resolution of the Syrian war and accepted the Moscow-Tehran-Beirut axis as a critical partner in this effort. Up until now, Kerry insisted in leaving Iran and Hezbollah out of US discussions with Moscow on the Syrian crisis.
Senior sources in Jerusalem sharply criticized Washington's embrace of the most violent and radical of Middle East terrorist organizations. They saw no difference between the openness to Iran and Hezbollah exhibited by Kerry in Beirut and the administration's readiness to do business with the Palestinian unity government backed to the hilt by Hamas.
According to those sources, by Thursday morning June 5, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had determined to go head-on against the new Obama administration line with a confrontation in the US Congress over its support for the Palestinian unity government.
Netanyahu will seek, with the aid of the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby, to get a law passed banning the continued transfer of US financial aid of approximately $500,000 a year to the Ramallah government, over its backing by the Hamas terrorist organization.
debkafile's sources in Washington don't expect this move to succeed. Even if the both houses of Congress enact such legislation - and that is doubtful - the president has enough legal and administrative resources to circumvent it.
Justice stands afar off and truth is fallen - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
This president is notorious for breaking the law. He released 36,007 criminal aliens convicted of murder, rape, kidnapping and assault, sold guns to Mexican drug dealers, refused to enforce marriage laws, allowed thugs to prevent white people from voting in Philadelphia, negotiates with terrorists, and funds the enemies of America and puts the weight of the White House behind overthrowing governments on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood. Is there no end to impeachable offenses and high crimes and misdemeanors perpetrated by this man? Yet the best the opposition party can muster is found in South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's remarks: if he does it again, we'll call for impeachment.
Graham was talking about releasing terrorist combatants from Guantanamo Bay without congressional approval. The Hill reports Graham as saying, "It's going to be impossible for them to flow prisoners out of Gitmo now without a huge backlash. There will be people on our side calling for his impeachment if he did that." In typical communist propaganda rhetoric, Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee Carl Levin said, "The White House did not comply with the requirement of the 30-day provision. However, the White House said it had power under Article II of the Constitution to do what it did." He said congress was notified that the president was not going to follow the law.
Not all congressmen are as a wimpy or ridiculous in their statements. Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger, ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee, told the Baltimore Sun, "Since World War Two we have not negotiated with terrorists or other groups. What concerns me is the future. This puts all Americans at risk throughout the world, including our men and women on the front line...for kidnapping." Finally, someone tells the truth about the consequences of the president's reckless action against the American people, but still no one is stepping forward with measures to bring this rogue Marxist Islamist to justice on behalf of the American people.
I am told by private sources that there are two reasons politicians of both parties will allow this president to remain in office: 1) they are afraid of impeaching the first president of color, and 2) Republicans do not have control of the Senate to make impeachment stick. Right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter what race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality the perpetrator is. Isn't that what our nondiscrimination laws say? Have we become an Isaiah 59:14 people: "And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter"? If so, these leaders are a reflection of who we are. We need to get serious about the Great Commission.
Of outrage and treason - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
The occupant of the Oval Office Saturday announced the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five of the most dangerous terrorists in custody. The elated father of Sgt. Bergdahl, Bob, took the podium at the White House and said, "I'd like to say to Bowe right now, who is having trouble speaking English, "bism allah alrahman alraheem. I am your father, Bowe." The president smiled his approval. No mainstream media, nor did the White House, translate the phrase. They all just put in parenthesis "(speaks in Pashto)." Father Bob, sporting a traditional Islamic beard, said from the White House: "In the name of allah, the most gracious, and most merciful." It is the phrase that opens every chapter of the Koran.
The details that have emerged since then are alarming. They appear to be pieces of a puzzle that implicate Bergdahl as a deserter and the president as a lawbreaker who may have committed treason. The Administration rolled out their faithful liar for the talk shows--National Security Advisor, the infamous Susan Rice of the Benghazi catastrophe, said, "Sergeant Bergdahl wasn't simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield." Rice, who had said the attack in Benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Mohammad video, was on point spinning another yarn for it seems that Bergdahl actually deserted and converted to Islam. His father would seem to have confirmed such.
The UK Daily Mail reports that Afghan intelligence officials say Bergdahl converted to Islam and was training his "captors" in US ambush tactics. The NY Times reports "Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life." There are reports that two soldiers were killed in an ambush while searching for Bergdahl. But there is a deeper issue than Bergdahl. The president, according to lawmakers and prosecutors, violated the laws which require him to notify Congress 30 days before any transfer of terrorists from Guantanamo Bay.
Rice's admission that Bergdahl was a prisoner of war also means that the president not only violated the law, but may have committed a treasonous act. He traded affirmed enemies of the state for a deserter who aided and abetted the enemy, notwithstanding his alleged conversion to Islam. The president appears to have committed a high crime and misdemeanor--an impeachable offense--and aiding and abetting the enemy during wartime, a treasonous offense. He also bragged about it from the White House, lending an approving smile while allah was being praised.
Is it not obvious what is going on here? Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you." 2 John 7 says, "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." Embracing allah means denying Christ. No two ways about it. Our nation has suffered a coup. Suspend your disbelief.
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