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		<title>Debbie Wasserman Schultz Shills for Mexico as Captive Marine Suffers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DNC chair leaves Andrew Tahmooressi behind.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Debbie.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234638" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Debbie-450x254.jpg" alt="Debbie" width="317" height="179" /></a>On March 31, 2014, Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi accidentally made a wrong turn from the United States into Mexico. He has been held in prison there ever since. Tahmooressi had been heading to San Diego, California to seek treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD which resulted from his time spent in combat overseas in Afghanistan. He had with him all of his belongings, including three firearms, which triggered the response from Mexican authorities.</p>
<p>Tahmooressi is a recent resident of the South Florida city of Weston; his mother, Jill, still resides there. The congressional representative for Weston is Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Wasserman Schultz is also the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Since Tahmooressi’s arrest, Wasserman Schultz has played a dual game of assisting Tahmooressi, while providing cover for the Mexican government and his captors.</p>
<p>Reports have stated that Wasserman Schultz has been in contact with both the State Department and Vice President Joe Biden regarding the Tahmooressi case. For the head of the Democratic Party and someone who is a phone call away from the President himself, this would seem to be the bare minimum, and it has resulted in no action as Sgt. Tahmooressi continues to languish behind bars in a foreign nation.</p>
<p>On May 28th, Wasserman Schultz took the time to speak with the comedy radio duo, Paul and Young Ron, on Miami, Florida’s Big 105.9. There, she made a few statements that, instead of helping Tahmooressi, made her out to be a shill for the Mexican government and those who have recklessly held him in Mexico for what is now nearly three months.</p>
<p>“The Mexican government has not done anything wrong here, so let’s be clear,” she insistently told the show’s hosts. She then began to speak about how Mexico has laws, which according to Wasserman Schultz, it “appears” he had violated.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz has stated that her office is “working diligently with the Mexican Embassy.” She said that she had spoken with the Mexican Ambassador, “who assured me that this is being worked on diligently and that they will do everything they can to expedite the situation.”</p>
<p>When asked if they were treating him well, she replied, “As far as I know, yes they are.”</p>
<p>On May 29th, just one day after the Wasserman Schultz interview, Tahmooressi appeared via phone on Fox News’ On the Record with Greta Van Susteren show. On it, he spoke of the nightmare he went through in Mexico.</p>
<p>He said that his fellow inmates threatened to rape and kill him. He said he was chained to a bed on three separate occasions, including chained standing up, as a form of “punishment.” He told Van Susteren he was punched in the stomach “to the point that I couldn’t breathe.” He said he was struck in his jaw by prison guards so many times his jaw moved out of place.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz’s statement that Andrew Tahmooressi was being treated well was either based on complete ignorance of his situation or a way to shield the Mexican government from harm. Considering that she made it a point to say that the Mexican government did nothing wrong – that they should be exempt from criticism – makes one come to the conclusion that it is the latter.</p>
<p>On May 31st, President Barack Obama traded five Taliban commanders for Bowe Bergdahl, an Army troop who had been held captive by the Taliban since June 2009. It was a highly controversial move not only for the violence associated with the terrorist commanders, but for the fact that Bergdahl has been considered by many to be a troop deserter who walked away from his camp.</p>
<p>Sgt. Tahmooressi, on the other hand, has been lauded as a hero for saving at least eight of his fellow troops’ lives in Afghanistan. So while President Obama traded five Taliban leaders for a possible troop deserter, the hero Tahmooressi has been made to suffer behind bars in Mexico with his family’s own government representative doing the least possible to see to his freedom.</p>
<p>Tahmooressi’s mother, Jill, said that never in all his time during four years as a Marine and two tours in Afghanistan was her son treated so badly as he has been in Mexico. But that may only be her opinion, as people like Debbie Wasserman Schultz believe he’s been treated just fine and Mexico did nothing wrong.</p>
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		<title>What Happened to Marine Deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A terrorist sympathizer with military training is on the run. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/missing-marine.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233571" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/missing-marine.jpg" alt="missing-marine" width="263" height="263" /></a>Ten years ago this month, U.S. Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from Camp Fallujah in Iraq. After a five-month military investigation, he was charged with desertion and theft, brought back to Virginia&#8217;s Quantico Marine base and then transferred to North Carolina&#8217;s Camp Lejeune for trial.</p>
<p>Yet, a full decade later, Hassoun is as free as a bird.</p>
<p>The accused deserter&#8217;s whereabouts are unknown. No trial ever began. No punishment ensued. And our leaders in Washington don&#8217;t seem to be doing a thing about this.</p>
<p>Hassoun was born in Lebanon and immigrated with his family to Utah in 1999. A few years later, he joined the Marines as an Arabic translator. On June 20, 2004, Hassoun bailed on guard duty at his base in Fallujah. He took his military-issued gun and his Muslim prayer rug. Military records obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune showed that he was &#8220;torn between military loyalty and his Muslim beliefs.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the internal probe, he undermined intelligence-gathering operations by refusing to translate questions about Islam. He balked at raising his voice to suspected jihadi imams and sheiks. He openly threatened to &#8220;walk out the front gate and leave.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Muslim Marine told his colleagues he supported Hezbollah terrorist attacks on Israel. Members of his unit told investigators he was &#8220;anti-American&#8221; and listened to jihad sermons on propaganda CDs. Hassoun had received spiritual counseling from Navy Lt. Cmdr. Abuhena Saifulislam, a Muslim military chaplain tied to a radical Wahhabist outfit under federal investigation, according to Hoover Institution fellow and journalist Paul Sperry.</p>
<p>A bizarre video by Hassoun&#8217;s Islamist &#8220;kidnappers&#8221; showed him blindfolded with a sword above his head. But his fellow Marines suspected it was all staged and the &#8220;abduction&#8221; a collaborative fake. What did the purported hostage-takers want in return for the shady, disgruntled American serviceman? The release of jihadists in &#8220;U.S.-led occupation prisons.&#8221; Translation: Gitmo detainees. (Americans would never negotiate such a reckless trade, right? Oh, wait.)</p>
<p>In an even weirder twist, Hassoun somehow resurfaced at the U.S. embassy in Lebanon a few weeks after he walked away from his base. His family was rumored to have enlisted the aid of an Islamist group associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Hassoun denied desertion charges, came back to the U.S. for trial and then deserted a second time after failing to return to Camp Lejeune after visiting family in Utah. In 2011, Hassoun&#8217;s family sought a $1 million book and movie deal in Hollywood. One of his brothers said the fugitive Marine was with family in Lebanon.</p>
<p>Ten summers after he abandoned his post, double-deserting Hassoun is still on the run and has yet to be held accountable.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s worth reminding Americans about Hassoun&#8217;s story in light of President Obama&#8217;s exploding Bowe Bergdahl scandal. By all appearances, this administration has no intention of taking action on longstanding allegations that Bergdahl, like Hassoun before him, deliberately abandoned his post in 2009. Defiant Obama said he makes &#8220;no apologies&#8221; for the treacherous deal, even as reports of Bergdahl&#8217;s renunciation of U.S. citizenship and conversion to Islam have surfaced in the past 48 hours.</p>
<p>Soldiers on the ground have described how Bergdahl&#8217;s disappearance catalyzed deadly coordinated attacks by the Taliban on numerous U.S. outposts in Afghanistan. The response has been breathtaking. One of Obama&#8217;s minions, former Veterans Affairs bureaucrat and now Housing and Urban Development flack Brandon Friedman defended his boss by suggesting that Bergdahl&#8217;s colleagues were &#8220;psychopaths.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s daughter, Alexandra, sneered that Bergdahl&#8217;s critics inside the military are &#8220;dysfunctional.&#8221; Harry Reid invoked Hillary Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;What difference does it make?&#8221; retort. The president himself sniffed that swelling anger among the families of the fallen was &#8220;whipped up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Islamist sympathizers inside our military walk away, and the Obama White House turns a blind eye. The Fort Hood jihad attack by Nidal Hasan, who invoked Hassoun in PowerPoint presentations to his military supervisors, is &#8220;workplace violence.&#8221; Gitmo recidivist Abu Sufian bin Qumu, lead suspect in the Benghazi attack, roams free despite the president&#8217;s promise to make &#8220;justice&#8221; his &#8220;biggest priority.&#8221;</p>
<p>Our commander in chief empties Gitmo of the worst of the worst jihadists and shrugs at the recidivists targeting American soldiers and civilians. And in a desperate attempt to deflect from the rising death toll of the Veterans Affairs book-cooking scandal, Obama gave Bob Bergdahl a Rose Garden stage to invoke Allah in Arabic.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not &#8220;whipped up&#8221; into Category 5 disgust, you&#8217;re not paying attention.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Whittle, Karen Siegemund and Mell Flynn shed light on the GOP’s discomfort with grassroots conservatism.]]></description>
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<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <em>Cruz&#8217;ing the Tea Party/Republican Divide, </em>analyzing the GOP’s discomfort with grassroots conservatism.<em><br />
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		<title>From 9/11 to 5/1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 04:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan W. Dowd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how good a day was Sunday for America? ]]></description>
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<p>There is nothing bad about Osama bin Laden’s death, nothing our post-modern, post-heroic culture should apologize for, anguish over, deconstruct or lament. The elimination of bin Laden—and not by some faceless drone or double-dealing “ally,” but by the force and skill of American arms striking at close range—is a victory for the country, for the notion of justice, for America’s troops and intelligence officers. This is a good day to be an American.</p>
<p>How good? News of bin Laden’s death made today’s crop of college students—poisoned by years of moral relativism and politically correct bunk equating all uses of force as the same, declaring war as our enemy, teaching that nothing is worth fighting for or against—take to the streets and spontaneously sing the Star Spangled Banner while waving the American flag. They were waving the Marine Corps flag and Old Glory on the streets in front of the White House, chanting “USA!” in Times Square, climbing up trees to hoist the colors—our colors—high. Anything that can do that is wonderful and wondrous.</p>
<p>They have every right to be proud and wave flags and sing songs of victory. This is a great country that can do great things in war and in peace, with a great political system that can sustain and win long, twilight struggles, protected by a great military that is amazing not just because of its reach and determination, but also because of its restraint.</p>
<p>Never forget that as our elite strike force of Navy SEALs hunted down a mass-murderer masquerading as a holy man, other U.S. forces were feeding the hungry in sub-Saharan Africa, trying to stop a massacre in Libya, nurturing a fragile peace in Iraq, building bridges while fighting the medieval Taliban in Afghanistan, fighting pirates off the Horn of Africa. In recent years, they have rescued Haiti and Pakistan and Sumatra and Japan after disasters of biblical proportion; liberated Iraqis and Afghanis from vast prison states; and shielded Kosovars and Kurds, Kuwaitis and Koreans.</p>
<p>Their work never ends and never ceases to amaze and humble. They are America’s very best not because they wear a uniform, but because of what they do in that uniform, which leads us to our system of government and politics. Our defenders take their oath to the country and its constitution, not to a man. It pays to recall that the U.S. military’s long hunt for bin Laden began in the 1990s and was the shared work of three administrations, three commanders-in-chief. They are very different men, serving at very different moments in history: one in the pre-9/11 world, in a decade when the burdens of leadership and history seemed to be quaint relics of some bygone era; one amid the flames and fury of bin Laden’s maiming of Manhattan and the Pentagon, in the early days of a new twilight struggle; one in a decade when the scars and memories of that terrible Tuesday had started to fade. Yet for all their differences and disagreements, flaws and failures, imperfections and indiscretions, they pursued the same goal, the latter two with virtually the same team of warriors, generals and commanders in place, keeping just enough of the country on the same page to realize this day.</p>
<p>That’s the kind of tenacity and resolve that, viewing America through the distorted and grimy prism of our own popular culture, bin Laden and his ilk will never understand. Beneath the soft, flabby outer edges of our nation, there exists muscle and bone that can unleash an unspeakable, unrelenting fury. As one wartime president soberly put it, “It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war.”</p>
<p>After mocking America as impotent and cowardly, the enemy now understands this.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARJA, AFGHANISTAN &#8212; To the Marines of Bravo Company, the black-and-white video footage from a surveillance drone seemed to present the perfect shot: more than a dozen armed insurgents exiting a building and heading to positions to attack U.S. and Afghan forces seeking to wrest control of this Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Facing stiff [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>MARJA, AFGHANISTAN &#8212; To the Marines of Bravo Company, the black-and-white video footage from a surveillance drone seemed to present the perfect shot: more than a dozen armed insurgents exiting a building and heading to positions to attack U.S. and Afghan forces seeking to wrest control of this Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Facing stiff resistance from Taliban fighters, the Marines radioed for permission to call in an airstrike on the insurgents at midday Monday. It appeared to be the sort of clear opportunity that would have prompted a rapidly executed bombing run during the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/iraq.html?nav=el">Iraq</a> war, or even in the first seven years of this conflict.</p>
<p>But not anymore: Officers at the Marine headquarters deemed the insurgents to be too close to a set of houses. In the new way the United States and its NATO allies are waging the Afghan war, dropping a bomb on or near a house is forbidden unless troops are in imminent danger of being overrun, or they can prove that no civilians are inside.</p>
<p>The rejection of Bravo&#8217;s airstrike illuminates the challenges and complexity of waging a counterinsurgency mission that aims to protect Afghan civilians, while battling militants who appear determined to stand and fight for control of this farming district.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/15/AR2010021500774.html?hpid=topnews">U.S. curtails use of airstrikes in assault on Marja &#8211; washingtonpost.com</a>.</p>
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