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		<title>Blood on Their Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 04:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where are the leftist champions of the mothers of fallen soldiers now that Hillary and Obama are to blame?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ap_obama_clinton_130127_wblog.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188935" alt="ap_obama_clinton_130127_wblog" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ap_obama_clinton_130127_wblog.jpg" width="275" height="214" /></a>Lady Macbeth may have been one of literature&#8217;s most famous villains, but at least she had the guilty conscience to eventually try and wash the blood off her hands.</span></b></p>
<p>It is doubtful that Hillary Rodham Clinton will start hallucinating bloody spots on her palms during the book tour for her upcoming 14-million-dollar tome or compulsively washing her hands during the 2016 campaign.</p>
<p>If she does make it into the White House, it is even more doubtful that she will wander it in a nightgown crying out for the blood that can never be washed away. Real life villains are more likely to ask what difference it makes; the solipsistic query of the sociopath to whom the feelings of others are abstract things.</p>
<p>At the Benghazi hearings, Congressman Elijah Cummings informed witnesses that &#8220;death is a part of a life.&#8221; His colleague, Eleanor Holmes Norton asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s the big deal here?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We had Benghazi I with Susan Rice, now we’re having Benghazi II with Hillary Clinton. Enough Benghazi,”  Norton declared. It&#8217;s not quite &#8220;What, will these hands ne&#8217;er be clean?&#8221; and more &#8220;What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?&#8221;</p>
<p>The latter is a timeless villain&#8217;s truth, whether in a fictional 11th century Scottish castle or in the all too real 21st century Capitol Hill. The arrogance of an Obama, a Clinton or a Norton comes from their confidence that none can call their power to account.</p>
<p>In Benghazi, four Americans were abandoned. In Afghanistan, over 1500 soldiers were killed and nearly 15,000 wounded, many of them denied air support and the ability to fight back under rules of engagement that likely also played a part in the betrayal at Benghazi.</p>
<p>Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin said that a single death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic. The four deaths in Benghazi are a tragedy. Afghanistan however is just a statistic.</p>
<p>The day after Benghazi, the parents of Navy SEALs from Seal Team Six, along with former military officials, appeared at the National Press Club to demand a congressional investigation. The media responded with a collective shrug and resumed providing non-stop coverage of the Jodi Arias case. Some Lady Macbeths go to prison. Others are meant to go to the White House.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why was there no pre-assault fire?&#8221; <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/seal-mom-this-is-submission-and-the-cost-of-that-submission-on-august-6-was-my-only-son/">Karen Vaughn, the mother</a> of Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn, asked. &#8220;We were told as families that pre-assault fire damages our efforts to win the hearts and minds of our enemy. So in other words, the hearts and minds of our enemy are more valuable to this government than my son&#8217;s blood.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t they take them out with a drone,&#8221; <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/father-of-murdered-seal-those-people-hate-us-what-about-my-hearts-and-minds/">Charles Strange</a>, the father of Michael Strange asked. &#8220;The Admiral told me, to win the hearts and minds. I says, to win the hearts and minds? How about my heart? How about my mind?&#8221;</p>
<p>But not all hearts and minds are created equal. And not all blood is valued the same.</p>
<p>If Lady Macbeth had wandered through her Foggy Bottom castle or the Westchester mansion, complete with wine cellar, artist&#8217;s studio and outdoor fireplace, mourning for a Muslim terrorist killed in a drone strike or a Muslim protester during the September 11 embassy attacks, that would have been a socially acceptable act of regret for a lost mind and heart that could have yet been turned to a moderate appreciation of a country where you can hate it, bomb it and still get an academic posting at Columbia University.</p>
<p>But why bother mourning for one of the expendable human drones who are expected to give their lives to remind Muslims of our respect for their culture and religion?</p>
<p>When a Muslim is killed by a drone, the media gathers its outrage, but when one of our soldiers or diplomats dies in the hopes of softening a Muslim&#8217;s heart, then the men and women who sent him to die with his hands tied and a target painted on his back cannot see the red spots on their soft palms.</p>
<p>Muslim hearts and minds are the obsession of the policymakers, but who cares about the hearts and minds of the men and women who ride Chinooks into danger zones, run marathons in cities where aspiring Chechen boxers feel marginalized and work in skyscrapers that Muslim students fly past on the way from Boston?</p>
<p>&#8220;Under the current Rules of Engagement, if the enemy fires on you then runs behind a rock,&#8221; Karen Vaughn said, &#8220;when he pops his head out from behind the rock, you&#8217;re not allowed to engage him unless you can verify that he has not laid his gun down&#8230; in other words you must be fired on twice.&#8221;</p>
<p>Today it&#8217;s twice. Tomorrow it may be three times. And then four. The angrier they get, the more free shots we have to give them to improve their self-esteem and soothe their hearts and minds.</p>
<p>The press release for Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 14-million-dollar book declares that she &#8220;has redefined the meaning of &#8216;trailblazer&#8217; in every phase of her career on the world stage.&#8221; The unnamed book will offer &#8220;dramatic moments,&#8221; &#8220;vivid personal anecdotes&#8221; and &#8220;memories of her collaboration with President Obama and his National Security team.&#8221;</p>
<p>But those who have already endured &#8220;Living History&#8221; with her and &#8220;It Takes a Village,&#8221; not to mention &#8220;Dear Socks: Kids&#8217; Letters to the First Pets,&#8221; are unlikely to learn anything new.</p>
<p>There will be no book titled, &#8220;Dear Hillary, I&#8217;m In a Burning Diplomatic Mission with no Security and Can&#8217;t Breathe: Dying Ambassador&#8217;s Letters to Former First Ladies&#8221; and no, &#8220;It Takes a State Department to Spend Money on Art in Embassies Instead of on Embassy Security&#8221; book either. Those books would be the bloody handprints on the wall and that would distract us from the Jodi Arias 2016 campaign.</p>
<p>The families of Navy SEALS demanding answers will not receive a fraction of the coverage that Cindy Sheehan did for burping in Bush&#8217;s direction. Soldiers will go on fighting and dying with their hands tied behind their backs. Embassies will go on being attacked. And nothing will be done about it because fighting back is insensitive and hurts our chances of winning Muslim hearts and minds.</p>
<p>Lady Macbeth only wanted power, but she lacked an ideology that would allow her to believe that she was doing the right thing.  There was no Wellesley College senior thesis about Saul Alinsky on her shelf and she was left unequipped to believe that the ends justified the means and that rivers of blood could be spilled in a good cause.</p>
<p>&#8220;If the ideals Alinsky espouses were actualized, the result would be social revolution,&#8221; Hillary Clinton wrote in her conclusion.</p>
<p>The social revolution of her 1969 thesis is once again here. Social values are under attack while soldiers die overseas without being allowed to fight back. The radicals care for nothing for the blood that they spill for their revolutions. Not the blood of a single man or of a thousand men.</p>
<p>&#8220;What is a traitor?&#8221; Lady Macduff&#8217;s son asks his mother, before being murdered by Macbeth&#8217;s assassins. &#8220;Why, one that swears and lies,&#8221; his mother replies. &#8220;Who must hang them?&#8221; her son asks. &#8220;Why, the honest men,&#8221; she answers. &#8220;Then the liars and swearers are fools,&#8221; he says, &#8220;for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them.&#8221;</p>
<p>The liars and swearers have hung up the honest men from Benghazi to Kabul to Capitol Hill. And the traitors walk through the night with blood on their hands and do not even see.</p>
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		<title>Families of Seal Team VI to Reveal How Islamic Appeasement Led to their Murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team VI heroes who disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah. ]]></description>
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<p>The event appears to be set for tomorrow at the National Press Club and<a href="http://press.org/events/navy-seal-team-vi-families"> it may have revelations as shocking as those</a> about Benghazi.</p>
<blockquote><p>Three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013, to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team VI special operations servicemen will be retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.</p>
<p>The areas of inquiry at the press conference will include but not be limited to:</p>
<p>1.    How President Obama and Vice President Biden, having disclosed on May 4, 2011, that Navy Seal Team VI carried out the successful raid on Bin Laden’s compound resulting in the master terrorist’s death, put a retaliatory target on the backs of the fallen heroes.</p>
<p>2.    How and why high-level military officials sent these Navy SEAL Team VI heroes into battle without special operations aviation and proper air support.</p>
<p>3.    How and why middle-level military brass carries out too many ill-prepared missions to boost their standing with top-level military brass and the Commander-in-Chief in order that they can be promoted.</p>
<p>4.    How the military restricts special operations servicemen and others from engaging in timely return fire when fired upon by the Taliban and other terrorist groups and interests, thus jeopardizing the servicemen’s lives.</p>
<p>5.    How and why the denial of requested pre-assault fire may have contributed to the shoot down of the Navy SEAL Team VI helicopter and the death of these special operations servicemen.</p>
<p>6.    How Afghani forces accompanying the Navy SEAL Team VI servicemen on the helicopter were not properly vetted and how they possibly disclosed classified information to the Taliban about the mission, resulting in the shoot down of the helicopter.<br />
7.    How military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team VI heroes who disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah. A video of the Muslim cleric’s “prayer” will be shown with a certified translation.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/navy-seal-team-vi-families-to-reveal-government-s-culpabilit">This is a Freedom Watch event </a>and I don&#8217;t know why it isn&#8217;t getting more attention, aside from the poor timing as it comes too close to the renewed wave of interest in Benghazigate.</p>
<p>The last allegation, if true, is certainly obscenely despicable and a final insult.</p>
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		<title>Persecuting a SEAL for Taking Away Obama&#8217;s Bin Laden Credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great American Hero and renowned warrior Leon Panetta, decorated twice for valor in the battle of Sugar Doughnut Hill, has called for punishing a retired Navy SEAL for taking away credit for the time that Obama parachuted into Pakistan and disposed of Bin Laden with a lecture on tolerance. ]]></description>
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<p>Great American Hero and renowned warrior Leon Panetta, decorated twice for valor in the battle of Sugar Doughnut Hill, has called for punishing a retired Navy SEAL<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/defense-secretary-panetta-decries-navy-seals-book-on-raid-that-killed-osama-bin-laden/2012/09/11/6b33f7b8-fc03-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop"> for taking away credit for the time that Obama parachuted into Pakistan and disposed of Bin Laden</a> with a lecture on tolerance.</p>
<blockquote><p>Asked in a network interview if he thinks the writer should be prosecuted, Panetta replied, “I think we have to take steps to make clear to him and to the American people that we’re not going to accept this kind of behavior.”</p>
<p>Panetta was referring to the newly published account of the U.S. SEAL raid that led to bin Laden’s killing in May 2011 in Pakistan. The book was written by a retired SEAL under the pseudonym of Mark 0wen. He was subsequently identified in media accounts as Matt Bissonnette.</p></blockquote>
<p>Clearly it&#8217;s the American people who want a Navy SEAL prosecuted. Not the petty despots holding down desks in the Obama Administration.</p>
<p>Panetta and the rest of the Obama Squad lost any moral credibility on this issue when they</p>
<p>1. Repeatedly leaked classified information to make Obama look good</p>
<p>2. Talked endlessly about the operation to make Obama look good&#8230; possibly causing the death of a SEAL team</p>
<p>3. Authorized a movie that was originally scheduled to be released before the election and gave the filmmakers access to classified data.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/09/11/panetta-on-national-security-leaks-president-obama-did-it-and-that-makes-it-okay/">O’Donnell then asked Panetta a direct question</a>: What’s the difference between what the SEAL did and the leaks that have come from the administration to journalists and filmmakers? Panetta spun: “There’s a fundamental difference. The people that presented some of the details of the operations were authorized to do that by the president of the United States, who has that authority to do that, and inform the American people as to what happened. In this case, that was not the case. And that’s the difference.”</p></blockquote>
<p>When <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/10/parents-seal-team-six-member-say-unit-endangered-by-obama-administration/">you&#8217;re responsible for this sort of</a> thing&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Identifying the Special Operations Force behind the Usama bin Laden raid amounted to placing a target on the back of the team members as well as their families, according to the parents of Aaron Vaughn, a member of SEAL Team Six who was killed in Afghanistan in 2011.</p>
<p>“Aaron called me and said, &#8216;Mom, you need to wipe your social media clean of any reference to me or any of my buddies. Just disconnect completely,&#8217;” Karen Vaughn said her son warned after Vice President Biden publicly identified the SEALs on May 3, 2011 &#8212; two days after the raid.  “He [Aaron] actually said to me, &#8216;Mom, there&#8217;s chatter, and all of our lives could be in danger, including yours&#8217; &#8230; then I realized all of those families, you know, you&#8217;re talking about a community of around three hundred families who were all of a sudden made targets by this administration.”</p>
<p>Aaron&#8217;s father Billy Vaughn said it was a betrayal to identify these selfless young men who put their country before everything else.<br />
“We expect better out, out of the, the high-up&#8217;s in our government. We, as American citizens, look to our government.  We elect them, we look to them to take care of the best interests of the American citizen, and especially the warrior. And I believe what the administration did, then I believe it was criminal.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230; then you can no longer speak with a straight face about making it &#8221; clear to him and to the American people that we’re not going to accept this kind of behavior&#8221;. The behavior is perfectly acceptable so long as it involves Obama and his trolls grabbing credit for an event they had little to do with while threatening to prosecute a man who actually risked his life for stealing their credit.</p>
<p>Furthermore it&#8217;s nakedly obvious that if the book had been more flattering to Team Obama, then there would be no talk of prosecution.</p>
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		<title>Seals Tell of Killing &#8216;Bert&#8217; Laden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Lamb]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upset by the official account, US Navy Seals commandos reveal the truth of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/">The Sunday Times</a>.</strong></p>
<p>OSAMA BIN LADEN was killed within 90 seconds of the US Navy  Seals landing in his compound and not after a protracted gun battle,  according to the first account by the men who carried out the raid. The  operation was so clinical that only 12 bullets were fired.</p>
<p>The Seals have spoken out because they were angered at the version  given by politicians, which they see as portraying them as cold-blooded  murderers on a “kill mission”. They were also shocked that President  Barack Obama announced bin Laden&#8217;s death on television the same evening,  rendering useless much of the intelligence they had seized.</p>
<p>Chuck  Pfarrer, a former commander of Seal Team 6, which conducted the  operation, has interviewed many of those who took part for a book, Seal  Target Geronimo, to be published in the US this week.</p>
<p>The Seals&#8217;  own accounts differ from the White House version, which gave the  impression that bin Laden was killed at the end of the operation rather  than in its opening seconds. Pfarrer insists bin Laden would have been  captured had he surrendered.</p>
<p>“There isn&#8217;t a politician in the world who could resist trying to  take credit for getting bin Laden but it devalued the &#8216;intel&#8217; and gave  time for every other al-Qa&#8217;ida leader to scurry to another bolthole,”  said Pfarrer. “The men who did this and their valorous act deserve  better. It&#8217;s a pretty shabby way to treat these guys.”</p>
<p>The first  hint of the mission came in January last year when the team&#8217;s commanding  officer was called to a meeting at the headquarters of joint special  operations command. The meeting was held in a soundproof bunker three  storeys below ground with his boss, Admiral William McRaven, and a CIA  officer.</p>
<p>They told him a walled compound in Pakistan had been  under surveillance for a couple of weeks. They were certain a high-value  individual was inside and needed a plan to present to the president.</p>
<p>It  had to be someone important. “So is this Bert or Ernie?” he asked. The  Seals&#8217; nicknames for bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are a  reference to two Muppets in Sesame Street, one tall and thin and the  other short and fat. “We have a voice print,” said the CIA officer, “and  we&#8217;re 60 per cent or 70 per cent certain it&#8217;s our guy.” McRaven added  that a reconnaissance satellite had measured the target&#8217;s shadow. “Over  6ft tall.”</p>
<p>When McRaven added they would use Ghost Hawk  helicopters, the team leader had no doubt. “These are the most  classified, sophisticated stealth helicopters ever developed,” said  Pfarrer. “They are kept in locked hangars and fly so quiet we call it  &#8216;whisper mode&#8217;.”</p>
<p>Over the next couple of months a plan was  hatched. A mock-up of the compound was built at Tall Pines, an army  facility in a national forest somewhere in the eastern US.</p>
<p>Four  reconnaissance satellites were placed in orbit over the compound,  sending back video and communications intercepts. A tall figure seen  walking up and down was named “the Pacer”.</p>
<p>Mr Obama gave the  go-ahead and Seal Team 6, known as the Jedi, was deployed to  Afghanistan. The White House cancelled plans to provide air cover using  jet fighters, fearing this might endanger relations with Pakistan.</p>
<p>Sending  in the Ghost Hawks without air cover was considered too risky so the  Seals had to use older Stealth Hawks. A Prowler electronic warfare  aircraft from the carrier USS Carl Vinson was used to jam Pakistan&#8217;s  radar and create decoy targets.</p>
<p>Operation Neptune&#8217;s Spear was  initially planned for April 30 but bad weather delayed it until May 1, a  moonless night. The commandos flew on two Stealth Hawks, codenamed  Razor 1 and 2, followed by two Chinooks five minutes behind, known as  “Command Bird” and the “gun platform”.</p>
<p>On board, each Seal was  clad in body armour and nightvision goggles and equipped with laser  targets, radios and sawn-off M4 rifles. They were expecting up to 30  people in the main house, including Bin Laden and three of his wives,  two sons, Khalid and Hamza, his courier, Abu Ahmed al- Kuwaiti, four  bodyguards and a number of children. At 56 minutes past midnight the  compound came into sight and the code “Palm Beach” signalled three  minutes to landing.</p>
<p>Razor 1 hovered above the main house, a  three-storey building where bin Laden lived on the top floor. Twelve  Seals abseiled the two metres down onto the roof and then jumped to a  third-floor patio, where they kicked in the windows and entered.</p>
<p>The  first person the Seals encountered was a terrified woman, bin Laden&#8217;s  third wife, Khaira, who ran into the hall. Blinded by a searing white  strobe light they shone at her, she stumbled back. A Seal grabbed her by  the arm and threw her to the floor.</p>
<p>Bin Laden&#8217;s bedroom was along  a short hall. The door opened; he popped out and then slammed the door  shut. “Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo,” radioed one Seal, meaning “eyes on  target”.</p>
<p>At the same time lights came on from the floor below and  bin Laden&#8217;s son Khalid came running up the stairs towards the Seals. He  was shot dead.</p>
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