Thankfully this election cycle is almost over, and I hope
beyond all hopes that the current denizen of the White House is finally
overthrown and sent packing.
I know that back during the early days of his reign I tried
to be open-minded and hopeful and said that I would try to give him a fair
shake, but that quickly faded as I realized that he was going to be an even
bigger, more colossal failure than Jimmy Carter.
My opinion of the man has hit new lows. I find him a
contemptible creature, and if that opinion hadn’t been solidified yet, then his
arrogance and condescension at the final presidential debate and the blatant
criminal bungling of the situation in Benghazi were the final coffin nails.
First, the debate. Personally, I prefer my Commander In
Chief to have actual military experience. In my opinion it is crucial, in that
if you are going to send troops in harm’s way that you should have once been
one yourself. At least Mitt Romney has a modicum of leadership experience in
having been the head of the Massachusetts National Guard while he was
Governor. Not quite the same thing as being the Commander In Chief, but closer
than the Marxist in Charge has with his bounty of experience in community
organizing and agitating.
So in trying to demean Mitt and make himself look cool,
Barry snarkily tries to negate the need for a larger Navy by saying we have
these things called aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, and went on to
blather about how we also don’t have as many horses and bayonets as we used to,
implying that it was yesterday’s technology and using the same tone one would
use to scold a naughty child.
How ironic, since he relishes yesterday’s technology of
trains and windmills….
I carried an M-7 bayonet during my enlistment and then we switched
to the M-9. I had a tab on my Expert qualification badge for the bayonet. Our
troops still carry bayonets, especially Marines. Rain or shine, 24 hours a day,
365 days a year, in searing heat and bitter cold, the Tomb of the Unknowns at
Arlington National Cemetery is guarded by sentinels who have a bayonet fixed on
their rifle. The US Army Drill Team and the USMC Silent Drill Platoon both
perform in front of thousands of people every year with bayonets affixed to
their rifles.
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| US Army Drill Team |
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| USMC Silent Drill Platoon |
The first Special Forces soldiers in Afghanistan rode in on
horseback. There are still special operations troops using horses in the back
country and mountain passes where heavy armored vehicles cannot operate. Horses
are utilized in funerals at Arlington. You know, where real American heroes are laid to rest...
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| Special Forces trooper on a......HORSE. |
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| An Arlington Tomb Sentinel on duty last year in the middle of a hurricane. Oh, look; a bayonet... |
No, you arrogant and condescending bastard, we don’t have as
many bayonets and horses as we used to, but we still have them and they are
used every day by men you aren’t fit to lead.
And about the Navy and their lack of ships…I remember very
well the 600-ship Navy under President Reagan. And now, under YOU, we have the
smallest Navy since World War One. Yes, we have aircraft carriers. Yes, we have
nuclear submarines. We also have fewer of both than we did in the past. In fact
we have 20 fewer Los Angeles class attack submarines than we did in 1996, and
another one so badly damaged by a fire this past spring she may be scrapped. By
2004, all 37 of the Sturgeon class submarines were retired. Also gone are 21
ballistic missile subs of the Lafayette and Benjamin Franklin classes that were
in service previously. How many aircraft carriers have we lost in the past
twenty or so years? More than we gained. From 1993 to 2009 we retired all of
our conventional-powered carriers, eight ships in total. That leaves us with eleven
carriers, including the aging USS Enterprise, scheduled to be decommissioned at
the start of next year. So, in essence, we have 10 nuclear-powered aircraft
carriers.
That all sounds awesome on paper, especially if you know
nothing about the military, like Barry Obama.
You see, the fewer ships you have the less area you can
cover, or more rather you have to cover more area with less, making the ships
& crews work harder and serve longer and longer deployments. By the end of
a six to nine month deployment, a carrier is in need of a several-months-long refit period of
maintenance in the yards. Equipment is worn out, crews are worn out, and that’s
from every day operations….wartime missions aggravate this tenfold. On paper we
have 54 attack subs, 14 ballistic missile subs, and 4 guided missile subs, but
how many are available at any given time? How many are drydocked getting
overhauled or repaired or refueled? Same with the carriers. And the carriers
have the added complication of having a flotilla of other ships to accompany
them, like, say, the fleet oilers to refuel the destroyers and cruisers. When
you only have but so many to go around, they get worn out.
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| A carrier in drydock |
And what if there’s a war and (God forbid) we lose a ship in
combat? You can’t build one over night. A carrier takes about 6 or 7 years to
build these days. A submarine takes about three.
Okay, now on to Libya.
The latest word I’m getting is that our people in Libya
begged for weeks to get more & better security on the ground in Tripoli and
at the mission in Benghazi, and were REFUSED. When the mission came under
attack, the White House knew for hours. They watched in the Situation Room via
a feed from an overhead drone as militants stormed the compound & murdered
four Americans.
I hear word that there was a quick reaction force an hour
away that was never sent. I hear word that at one point a rapid deployment
force comprising Army Rangers and two Special Forces A-Teams along with an
AC-130U Spectre gunship were en route to rescue them, and were turned back. I
hear word that one of the two former Navy SEALs who were among the four killed
was at one point on the roof and could see the mortar team shelling them and begged
for air support so he could spot for them. DENIED. The general who tried to
help them is being canned.
Christopher Stevens. Glen Doherty. Tyrone Woods. Sean Smith.
A United States Ambassador, two former Navy SEALs, and a civilian information
management officer, all killed by Islamic terrorists. I hope their names and
faces haunt you nightly, Barry.
You lied to your lapdogs in the media and blamed the attack
on a bullshit video on YouTube that most of those illiterate sand fleas had
never even heard of until you used it and the shady turd who made it as a
scapegoat for your own incompetence. And you made sure all of Islam knew the
shady turd was a Coptic Christian, as if the Copts in Egypt aren’t having
enough trouble from your butt-buddies in the Islamic Brotherhood. You threw
him, and all the Copts, under the bus you scumbag.
You and your entire staff should be tried for treason. You
couldn’t lead a pack of Cub Scouts to the dumpster and back without screwing it
up and yet you have the audacity to think you should continue to lead this
nation?
Eight more days, Barry. Eight days and then we vote your ass
out. Start packing.
