Obama Crowd Throws Navy SEALS Under The Bus

Navy SEALS charged for roughing up terrorist - On September 3, 2009, a Navy SEAL team risked their lives in capturing a terrorist by the name of Ahmed Hashim Abed. Abed is believed to be responsible for the torture and murder of four Blackwater employees and hanging two of their mutilated and burned bodies from a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004.

Instead of being hailed as heroes and commended for their actions in capturing Abed, the Navy has charged three Navy SEALS for giving him a "fat lip." Wow! Can you imagine that? How terrible that a scumbag terrorist who tortures and murders Americans is roughed up by his captors. The sorry SOB is lucky they didn't shoot him. They deserve medals in my book.

The three Navy SEALs involved are Special Warfare Operators 2nd Class Matthew McCabe and Jonathan Keefe, and 1st Class Julio Huertas.

McCabe is charged with assault, dereliction of duty, and making a false official statement; Keefe is charged with dereliction of duty and making a false official statement; and Huertas is charged with dereliction of duty, making a false official statement and impeding an official investigation.

According to one Navy source the three Navy SEALs had turned Abed over to the Iraqi military and was returning to their base when they were ordered to go back an pickup him up for further interrogation. When they picked up Abed from the Iraqis they noticed that Abed had been roughed up and had a cut lip. It was the Iraqis who roughed up Abed not the Navy SEALs.

It was Abed who told Naval authorities that it was one of the Navy SEALs who assaulted him. No kidding. The Navy command took the word of one of the most-wanted terrorists in Iraq over their own men? What kind of morons do we have wearing Navy officers uniforms these days? What happened to the leadership principle of looking out for the welfare of your troops?

The U.S. Special Operations Command Central commander Army Maj. Gen. Charles Cleveland, preferred the charges against the SEALs and will serve as the convening authority as the cases proceed to a military court. Apparently the U.S. Army has the same kind of morons in command as the U.S. Navy.

Rather than accept a reprimand from Cleveland the SEALs, who said they did nothing wrong, demanded a military court. Cleveland was then forced to charge them. What a jerk.

If convicted they could be fined and demoted, sent to prison and receive bad conduct discharges. All for giving a scumbag terrorist a "fat lip." Can you imagine this happening when WWII combat generals and admirals like MacArthur, Patton, Bradley, Nimitz, Bull Halsey and others were running the war? They must be rolling over in their graves.

Once again we see general grade officers listening to a bunch of "politically correct" military lawyers instead of looking out for the troops. The late Col. Dave Hackworth called them "perfumed princes."

The incident actually started when a Navy Master-At-Arms Chief guarding Abed told a SEAL platoon commander that one of the SEALs had punched Abed in the stomach. The platoon commander reported the incident and it went up the chain of command with no questions asked.

Who in the hell was looking out for the troops these days? Hardly a week goes by that we don't hear about our troops being hauled before a military courtl for trumped up charges of mistreating prisoners. In most cases those charged are acquitted or the charges dropped.

In November, 2005, U.S. Marines came under attack by insurgents in Haditha, Iraq. During the firefight nine insurgents were killed and 15 civilians being used as shields were killed. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, USMC, was the ranking officer present during the attack and ensuing firefight. Another of countless successful firefights by U.S. Marines in the War on Terror in which Chessani was commended for a job well done by Maj. Gen. Huck, his commanding general.

Unfortunately, the anti-war politician Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., accused the Marines of being cold-blooded killers and government prosecutors charged Chessani and seven other Marines with criminal wrongdoing. Following a lengthy investigation in which no wrongdoing was discovered the criminal case was thrown out of military court.

Still looking for a "scapegoat" to appease the antiwar media and Murtha, the military then held a Board of Inquiry on Chessani where the burden of proof is lower. The ruling was that he was innocent of any misconduct and should not be demoted but should retire. Another good combat officer thrown under the bus by the anti-war, anti-military, anti-America crowd.

The anti-war, anti-military crowd is now looking for "scapegoats" in the Navy SEALs incident. At least this time instead of being stabbed in the back by Murtha and his gang they're getting some help from friendly lawmakers.

A letter circulated in the House from Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said prosecuting the three SEALs "seems to us to be an overreaction by the command." Let's hope Maj. Gen. Cleveland and his superiors including CinC Obama are listening.

About 20 House members signed the letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, including House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Hunter told reporters, "The Navy SEALs could have been slapped on the wrist for this - unfairly then, too. "But they said, 'We want to let the facts be known.' "Prosecuting them is "baloney."

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., joined the fight and sent a letter to Gates, asking him for his personal attention in the case. Ensign said it appeared to him that highly skilled personnel have been removed from the war effort "due to a fat lip and some slanderous allegations by one of the most-wanted individuals in Iraq." Hunter and Ensign have it right. Let's see what Gates does.

Gates is a holdover from the Bush administration and has done a fair job as SecDef in the Obama administration. He could put a stop to all this PC crap and stupid Rules of Engagement ROEs and should although it would probably result in his being thrown under the bus.

In a recent article Jed Babbin, editor of Human Events and former deputy undersecretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush had a few choice comments concerning the charges against the three SEALs.

Babbin says military lawyers are far too involved in running this war and commanders are deferring to them far more than they should.

Babbin said, "Putting these SEALs through a court martial for an offnese that deserves --at worst a good chewing out and a sentence to do a few hundred pushups will send a devastating message through out all the special forces."

Babbin is right. It's now up to the military brass to put an end to these PC kangaroo courts and stupid ROEs that are getting our troops killed and wounded on the battlefield and say enough is enough. Gates needs to back them up.

Maybe CinC Obama and the Pelosi/Reid gang will get the message. Quit messing with our troops and let them do their job!